The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will advance the future of higher…
Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University, USA was invited to act as an opponent for Lucas Jeno’s PhD defense on February 16th (read more about the defense here). The day before, she held an enlightening lecture entitled “Excellence in teaching and learning from the…
From the coming autumn, students with prior experience in Arctic Biology can apply for the new course AB-208 “Internship in Arctic Biology”. This 15 ECTS-course offers the possibility to gain work experience at a company in Longyearbyen, while at the same time attending a series of seminars, where students can reflect on and discuss their…
February 16th Lucas Jeno successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “The antecedents and consequences of students´ autonomous motivation. The relation between need-support, motivation, and academic achievement” and completed his PhD degree at the University of Bergen! You can read a short summary of Lucas’ work here. The day started with Lucas giving a trial lecture on the…
Welcome to bioSPIRE, the latest addition to the bioCEED family of student-coordinated platforms. bioSPIRE, a subtle mix of “spire” ([ˈspiːre]: sprout in Norwegian) and “inspire”, has a double purpose: to help bachelor students in biology (the “sprouts“) get a taste of practical biology by participating to a more experienced student’s project on the field or…
bioBreakfast is a pilot project at UNIS, arranged by the bioCEED student representatives. The project is aiming for students inspiring and advising each other across graduate levels and faculties, with a main focus on biology topics. The purpose of bioBreakfast is to invite master and PhD students to have a talk about their personal experiences…
The message of biORACLE was spread at the poster session of the OIKOS conference in Trondheim this month, with the intention of inspiring others to start up similar projects at their home institutions. The importance of inviting students into a safe learning environment with tools such as waffles, coffee and spamming in different medias was…
The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in education (SIU) has now open calls for applications for funding in six programmes aimed at cooperation in higher education with countries outside the EU. Total funding available is approximately NOK 136 million: INPART: 24 April 2018 NORPART: 31 May 2018 Partnership programme with North America: 22 September 2018 UTFORSK: 25…
Are you curious about what bioCEED achieved during 2017? Peek into our annual report HERE.
