The workshop is chaired by Prof. Rory McGreal from Athabasca University, Canada.

Plan for the Workshop:

Thursday May 19: LMS and Wikis for learning

9.15-11.00: Introduction by Professor Rory McGreal.
11.15-12.00: Presentations from Murmansk State Humanities University.
Lunch
12.45-13.30: Presentations from University of Tromsø.
Steinar Thorvaldsen: Easy porting of PowerPoint slides to YouTube lectures.
Discussions.

Friday May 20: Mobile technologies and open educational resources for learning
9.15-11.00: Introduction by Professor Rory McGreal.
11.15-12.00: Presentations from Murmansk State Humanities University.Lunch
12.45-13.30: Presentations from University of Tromsø:
Arne K. Eidsvik: Programming the iPhone: How to make a Quiz.
Discussions.

Athabasca University is Canada's leader in Online & Distance Education. They are active in publishing the journal IRRODL.

Rory McGreal is Associate Vice President, Research at Athabasca University. Previously,he was the executive director of TeleEducation New Brunswick, a province-wide bilingual (French/English) distributed distance learning network. Before that, he was responsible forthe expansion of Contact North, a distance education network in Northern Ontario. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on e-learning.If you want to join the Workshop send an e-mail to steinar.thorvaldsen@uit.no within May15th.

The Workshop is sponsored by University of the Arctic and held under the auspices of the Thematic Network on Distance Education and E-Learning.