Keynote speaker: Rune Johan Krumsvik

Rune Johan Krumsvik is a Professor (dr.philos.) of Education at the University of Bergen and a Professor II at Volda University College. Krumsvik served as Head of the Department of Education at the University of Bergen (2010–2017) and is the founder and research group leader of the Digital Learning Communities research group (link) at the University of Bergen. He has been conducting research on artificial intelligence since 2015 and is the head of the consortium Digital Learning Communities Artificial Intelligence Centre (DLCAIC, link), where he has, among other things, developed a PhD chatbot for academic writing (link), a healthcare chatbot (link), and published several scientific articles on artificial intelligence in the contexts of academic writing at the PhD level, (link), Nurse education (link), medicine (link), and methodology (link). 

Krumsvik is also the founder and academic director of the Nordic Graduate School of Educational Research (link), Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy (link), and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Pediatrics (link) and Frontiers of Public Health (link). Over the past fifteen years, he has supervised 17 PhD candidates in fields such as education, nursing education, and other health disciplines, collaborated and published with the dental education program at the University of Bergen, delivered numerous PhD courses for health-related doctoral candidates, and published scientific articles, professional papers, and op-eds in the fields of education and health (h-index 34, i10-index 77).

He received the Teaching Award in 2012 from the Faculty of Psychology (link) at the University of Bergen and was in 2020 recognized as an Excellent Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Psychology (link) at the University of Bergen.