GeoLearning Forum 2024

Registration Deadline 20th September 23:59

GeoLearning Forum: 7-8th November 2024 at Radisson Blu, Tromsø

Maximum participants: 100 - first come, first served. A certain amount of spots will be set aside for each institution as well as for students and teachers/staff which has been determined by the iEarth leader group.

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World Café

There will be several tables in the conference room, each table will have a number and a table leader, the number will represent a theme that will be announced in the

Session 1 - 09:30-10:30.

1. Communication is key with Siri Tungland
2. Towards work-relevant and scalable national GIS collaboration with Benjamin Robson
3. Earth Science and Informatics: Challenges in building new interdisciplinary Bachelor at UiB with Harald Walderhaug
4. How to survive as a student in geosciences? With Anne Årvik And Tiril T. Try.
5. Retaining students - Hopes and fears project with Sarah
6. What drives educational change among geoscientist universities? How to get students and teachers to work together with Maria Weulander.
7. Field teaching assistant academy with Anna Pienkowski.
8. Student involvement in developing courses with Kaja F. Ruud

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Session 2 . 11:00-12:00.

9. How to make fieldwork more active: active learning in fieldwork with Mariana Stark de Alencar
10. Local field laboratories with Jarle Sleire and Kenneth Mangersnes
11. Co-creation and assessment with Kjersti B. Daae.
12. Cultural change in geoscience education with Carly Faber
13. LIfe-long teaching and learning in a changing society: EVU courses at the Department of Earth Science, UiB with Atle Rotevatn.
14. What are the challenges students face in their 1st year with Åse and Per.
15. Environmental impact of excursions and fieldwork with Danique Wetzels
16. How to teach big classes in Earth Science? Examples from "GEOV101 - Introduction to geology" at UiB.
17. A student teacher collaboration in evaluating university snow science courses with Nilas Mikkelsen

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Field excursion

Regarding the excursion on thursday 7th at 09:15.

Take bus 33 from Bankgata bus stop in the city centre and meet at Telegrafbukta bus stop by 09:15.

All participants will receive the iEarth local field laboratory guide for Telegrafbukta by e-mail and are welcome to use it for a self-guided field trip at any time during GLF.

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Travel to Tromsø

iEarth will cover your travel and one night stay at the conference hotel (special terms apply to the UNIS delegation due to limited flights).

After the registration deadline, 20. september, everyone that signed up will get an e-mail confirming that they've been accepted to the conference. If you choose to have flights booked for you, this will also be sent per e-mail. PS: Flight tickets are non-refundable

Disclaimer: Please be aware that in case of a no-show or cancellation after 15th of October 2024, participants will be invoiced for travel and accomodation costs (hotel accommodation is 1695 NOK per night).

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Travel from Tromsø Airport (Tromsø Lufthavn) to Radisson Blu (Bankgata) can be found at https://svipper.no and you can download the app to buy a ticket. Bus ride takes ca. 15 mins.

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Posters

Please bring your posters.

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Program

PDF version of the program can be downloaded here (takes you to a .pdf file).

Kathrine Tveiterås, Pro-rector for Education at UiT will talk about the changes occurring at the University of Tromsø, the arctic university

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Program committee:

Anders Schomacker (leader)

Carly Faber

Siri Tungland

Nilas T. Mikkelsen

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Organizing committee:

Thomas Hagen Thuesen

Carly Faber

Anders Schomacker