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Monthly Archives: August 2018

ISSOTL18 – Toward a learning culture – register today!

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. The Early bird deadline for ISSOTL2018 is 01 September 2018! Register today to get the early bird discount! Conference program Follow us on Twitter:…

bioCEED at ICED2018

The International Consortium for Educational Development Conference (ICED) 2018 was held in Atlanta in June, with the theme Institutional Change: Voices, Identities, Power, and Outcomes. bioCEED was well represented at the conference, presenting 3 papers. The Collegial Project Course – a systematic way towards institutional change,  and a discussion piece of the debate around the…

Teaching portfolio workshop at UNIS

In the end of August Anders Ahlberg from Lund University held a teaching portfolio workshop at UNIS where participants got feedback by their peers and by workshop leader on their teaching portfolio writing.  For faculty members a teaching portfolio is a way to document and analyse their own teaching practices to support and document pedagogical experience…

Funding possibilities for learning and teaching

Funding to apply for regarding teaching in higher education: Olav Thon foundation – application deadline 15 September Norgesuniversitetet – application deadline 22 October SIU:  Various relevant calls bioCEED small grants: bioCEED works to develop, test and document the impacts of new teaching and learning methods in biology. You can now apply for small grants up to 50 KNOK…

bioCEEDSters – on the inside of bioCEED

Biologists as lab rats! My name is Lucas and I conduct experiments on biologists. My passion in life is motivation, specifically what motivates humans and how can we sustain motivation. I have been fortunate enough to be able to investigate these questions here at bioCEED. My main training is in education and in quantitative research.…

A new blog on teaching and learning in biology

    The newly started blog https://biologididaktikk.w.uib.no/ on teaching and learning biology is meant to be both practical (how do I do this?) and research based (almost all blog entries have a small reference list). You will find: Verktøykasse: A tool box with activities, learning resources, tips & tricks for teaching biology Fugleperspektiv: A bird’s…

Say hello to the new student representatives at UNIS

Ingvild Sørensen is a biology student in the last year of her bachelor at the University of Tromsø. Currently she is taking a semester at UNIS, and her field of interest is mainly arctic terrestrial ecology. Ingvild wants to be a part of bioCEED because she thinks it is important to have an open dialog…