Almost three thousand participants took part in Menntakvika last 1 and 2 October. Menntakvika, is the annual conference of the School of Education; the main forum for the latest research from the field of education in Iceland including development projects in schools, recreational activities, and pedagogical work.
This year, the conference was the largest it has ever been with 300 presentations in 87 online seminars. The participants are both academics and students at the University of Iceland and other universities, as well as those working in education and pedagogy in Iceland.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was entirely online this year and many recordings of lectures can still be accessed on the conference website. Dynamic discussions on the conference subjects took place in seminars on zoom with a record number of participants.
"We hear almost exclusively praise and enthusiasm from everyone involved, which pleases us tremendously. It is not a simple task to take a conference of this size and move it entirely online without a real precedent," says Kristín Erla Harðardóttir, director of The Educational Research Institute, but the organisation of the conference was in the hands of the Institute staff and the School of Education administrative office.
The media has covered some of the research presented in the conference these last few days. The news articles, in Icelandic, can be found on the School of Education Facebook page.