Report of the JURE conference in Tartu, Estonia
EARLI JURE 9th conference took place from 30th June to 4th July 2006 in the Science
Didactics Department of the University of Tartu in Estonia. The theme of the conference
was "Models and Learning: Theory, Design and Application". 104 junior researchers from
21 European countries, Israel, Japan and Canada participated. JURE conference was an
excellent opportunity for learning from invited guests (Roger Säljö, Filip Dochy, Wolfgang
Schnotz, Shaaron Ainsworth, Wouter van Joolingen, Katrin Niglas, Goele Nickmans, Ulla
Runesson, Leo Võhandu, Silvia Caravita) and other young researchers during discussions
in 5 keynote sessions, 7 workshops, 19 paper sessions with 72 presentations, poster
session with 19 posters, and interactive demo session with three presenters. All
participants were asked to evaluate presentations on peer-review basis. The best paper
presentation award in JURE 2006 was given to Zarina Charlesworth from Switzerland.
Persson Petter Bivall with Tibell Lena and Cooper Matthew from Sweden and Endedijk
Maaike with Jan Vermunt, Mieke Brekelmans, and Perry den Brok from the Netherlands
were awarded for the best poster presentation. The international organising committee of
the conference (Margus Pedaste (chair) and Kai Pata, Boris Jokic, Goknur Kaplan Akilli,
Anna Wernberg, and Marina Michael) and the local organising committee give a special
thanks to all participants and invited speakers who made the conference a high standard
scientific event.