08:30 Opening of the science conference - Welcome: Kirsten Broch Mathisen, Director, Department for Climate and the Environment, The Research Council of Norway

08:40 Introduction to Science conference: Salve Dahle, Head of the Arctic Frontiers Steering Committee 

E-learning experience

Room 1.443 (Chair: Steinar Thorvaldsen)

09:00 Invited speaker Rory McGreal & T. Anderson, Athabasca University, Canada: E-learning in Canada: Problems and challenges for the North

09:30 Lena Zamorshchikova, Yakutsk State University, Russia: Experience and perspectives of e-learning in teaching English as a foreign language.

09:50 Hilde Brox, University of Tromsø, Norway: Entering new arenas for learning: digital competence in Teacher Education

10:10 A.N. Savrasova & Irina Ein, Murmansk State Pedagogical University, Russia: Introduction of distant learning technologies in the system of Professional Training of Teachers at higher education institutions

10:30 Break

10:50 Arne Ketil Eidsvik & Helge Habbestad, University of Tromsø, Norway: Success Factors for ICT in Kindergartens

11:10 Olga Egorova, Yakutsk State University, Russia: E-learning in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) : personal reflections

11:30 S.V. Arhipov, Murmansk State Pedagogical University, Russia: Main directions of e-learning development at Murmansk State Pedagogical University

12:00 Lunch

E-learning methodology. Chair: Øyvin Ytreberg

13:00 Invited speaker Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada: Metacognition Strategies for Distance Learning

13:40 Tommy Nordeng et al., Cerpus AS, Norway: BrainBank– Building Conceptual Topic Maps E-portfolios for Meaningful Learning

14:00 Lisbeth Rønningbakk, University of Tromsø, Norway: Digital resources as tools to adapt the national curriculum to local contexts in compulsory schools in the north of Norway

14:30 Break

14:50 Gunnar Hartviksen, University of Tromsø, Norway: E-learning tools for the Web 2.0 generation of students

15:10 Mariann Solberg, University of Tromsø, Norway: Educating the Citizen of Academia Online?

15:30 Suzanne Robinson, University of Essex, UK: Researching in the classroom: Using digital video as a method of storytelling in the Canadian Western High Arctic

16:00 Poster session with bar service

18:00 End poster session