The aim of the NORDITEL symposium is to promote and to generate an interdisciplinary discussion forum for both Nordic educational practitioners and academic scholars interested in conceptualizing, designing and evaluating teaching and learning in new emerging technology enhanced learning landscapes. The symposium is organized by the Learning Ecosystems and Activities of the Future (LEAF), a research initiative supported by the Nordic Research Board, Nordforsk.

NORDITEL 2010 does not intend to be a traditional conference, but an interactive event aiming to stimulate ongoing and future efforts in the field of technology enhanced learning. The first working day will start with an invited speaker. This morning presentation will give us grounding for the rest of the day. Thereafter, four parallel group sessions will start working with two facilitators, which in this case are well known international experts in their fields. The sessions will begin with a 10-15 minutes position paper (introduced by the facilitators) in order to provide the scientific ground and to stimulate the group discussion. Each group consists of 20 participants.. Participants in each session will be given a couple of minutes to introduce themselves and their research interest (the book of abstracts gives a more detailed overview of each participant’s research focus). The main aim of the morning group sessions is to contribute with ideas, comments and questions that will frame the main challenges associated with the topics under discussion for each group. We expect that the discussions will focus on pedagogical, technological and organizational aspects associated with the main topics of each session, thus bringing a multifaceted view to the discussion.

In the afternoon session, each group will try to summarize their work and will prepare a presentation in the form of poster or notes (e.g. power point presentation) illustrating the main questions and challenges that have been identified during the session. The overall objective is that each group identifies relevant research questions and ideas for further exploration and development related to the ongoing scientific efforts in the field of TEL in the Nordic countries. At the end of the day, each one of the groups will present a 10 minutes summary describing their outcomes. The same format and mode of operation even applies for the second day of the symposium.