Collegial Teaching and Learning – in Biology Education as an elective course in teaching and learning for teachers in higher education. The course consists of two separate units corresponding to two plus one (three) weeks of full-time work. The language of instruction is Norwegian/Swedish or English. This time, the course is offered to biology departments…
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Teach2Learn: New video tutorials available
Teachers of the course BIO216 – Toxicology can now benefit from of a newly created video tutorial to help students preparing for the practical part of the course. Video tutorials are implemented in various courses at the University of Bergen and at the University Centre in Svalbard through the Teach2Learn project. Anne-Laure Simonelli, coordinator of…
ISSOTL18 – Call for proposals
Deadline for proposals extended to April 8th. 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…
Biology leaders discussed pedagogical training for staff
The 2018 meeting in the National Forum for Educational Leadership in Biology took place in early March, this time at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). As is now a tradition, the meeting was run back-to-back with the spring meeting of Biofagrådet. The forum-topic this year was about pedagogical training and development for staff and…
Communication of science: Environmental pollutants in marine mammals and children
A bioCEED student seminar with researcher Gro D. Villanger The seminar was successful with 44 students joining in from all four departments (biology, geology, technology and geophysics). The scientific theme of the seminar was environmental pollutants, their effects on arctic marine fauna and how this could be combined with research on health issues in children. Researcher Gro Dehli Villanger…
bioCEED seminar – “A Generic Peer Review Concept”
Roy Andersson from the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University held a one hour lunch workshop 12th of March for faculty members at UNIS on student peer assessment. Here Roy gave the participants a concrete experience in how they in a controlled way could perform student peer review of written exam moments. Step by step student…
bioCEEDSters – on the inside of bioCEED!
My name is Sigrunn Eliassen and I am associate professor at the Department of Biological Sciences. In my research, I am particularly interested in the evolution of mating systems, and I spend a lot time wondering about why birds stray. In bioCEED I lead the work package on learning environments and I am involved in…
Promoting BIO’s educational programme in marin research
The spring deadline for application to bachelor and master programmes is just around the corner (April 15th). Our future students must take a decision now, and it is up to us to convince them that biology is their future! BIO, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and The DigUiB Learning and Communication Lab have recently…