Last week bioCEED handed in the very final document in the Centre of Excellence mid-term evaluation process, our Action Plan for the next funding period, to NOKUT. Our job is now done (more about that here) and we now eagerly await the evaluation panel’s final report and the NOKUT Board’s decision. Will we be funded…
Studying biologists! My name is Torstein and I research biologists. This means that even though I work in the biology building I don’t go into the field to gather data, unless biologists ate there too. So, what in particular is interesting about biologists and how do I investigate them? First, I scrutinize how biologists learn…
Kudos to MatRiC – for sharing material end experiences from the Centre’s mid-term evaluation Centers of Excellence are large-scale, long-term projects, and it’s only fair that our funders want to touch base properly (beyond the annual reports) at least once during that period to evaluate whether the funding is well spent and whether we are…
This last week in September our Te2Le project team visited UNIS for a new production round of student tutorials. This year the student tutorials are based on the student project work at the Terrestrial Arctic Biology course (AB-201) where the students have been collecting the data material along the western and northern coast of Svalbard. Prior to the visit,…
bioCEED leader Vigdis Vandvik visited the brand new podcast series by NOKUT – discussing how teachers in HigherED could get better at discussing teaching and learning. Available at SoundCloud and iTunes – sadly only in Norwegian. Follow NOKUT on Facebook to get updated on new episodes! And read the follow-up article in Khrono.
As a Norwegian, one wishes to enjoy the full length of summer when it finally appears. Therefore, it was natural for us to spend the entire summer in Svalbard. Sure, we had freezing winds and an average temperature of 6°C, but we got to experience the midnight sun and Svalbard’s extraordinary nature and wildlife –…
As the fall semester has begun at UNIS, we are happy to welcome Ingvild Eldøy and Svein Keizer as our new bioCEED student representatives in the north! Ingvild is from NTNU and is planning to become a teacher in biology and chemistry. Sven is originally from the Netherlands, but is studying biology at Nord University with a special interest in…
A variety of opportunities to apply for grant money are available to support educational initiatives in higher education. Below you’ll find information on some upcoming funding opportunities: SIU: Various relevant calls: https://www.siu.no/Kommende-frister Norgesuniversitetet: https://norgesuniversitetet.no/prosjekter – Application deadline 20 October The Research Council of Norway – FINNUT: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Funding/FINNUT/1254025524658?lang=en – Application deadline 22 November …
Soon it is time for the yearly Learning Forum at UNIS, which will take place from 24 – 26 October. This year 65 participants have signed up. The Learning Forum is an event where the entire UNIS teaching staff can share and gain knowledge regarding research based education, course construction and development. The 2017 Learning…
This semester we have some old and some new faces among the biORACLE crew. Ragnhild and Mari are still the leaders, organizing all of it, and we have ten great oracles on the team. This term we are going for one oracle meeting every week on Wednesdays from 14-17. So far it has been a…
ArtsApp developer Kjetil Fossheim has now completed and released the iOS version of ArtsApp. From today, both Android- and iPad/iPhone users can download and install the bioCEED funded app for species identification the app. Note that the iOS version includes a new algorithm that makes the process of identification more intuitive. And this algorithm will soon be implemented…
