On September 5th, 2018, our brilliant students received UiB’s Learning Environment Prize 2018 for their project biORACLE (biORAKEL in Norwegian)! What an achievement! UiB’s Learning Environment prize is given to units, groups or individuals that have worked successfully with improving the learning enviroment and enhanced student learning. It is up to students and student organisations…
My name is Janne E. Søreide and I am an Associate Professor in Marine biology at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). I am the UNIS responsible for work package 3 Active learning in BioCEED. Formally, I have limited pedagogic education but I strongly believe that active learning through research-based education is the key to…
MNT Conference “Constructive Alignment”, March 28-29 2019, Tromsø. Call for papers 31 October.
ISSOTL2018 is now less than a month away – and we are very much looking forward to welcoming 600+ colleagues and friends to Bergen in October! If you want to come prepared, you should take a good look at the Conference program – with over 200 paper presentations, 28 workshops, 14 panels, 100 posters and…
Read På Hoyden’s interview with our PhD student Torstein Hole: Merittering: Kritikken liknar klimafornekting
The 3rd edition of bioCEEDs Collegial project course (CPC) 2018-19 started up in August, and this time we invited biology teachers from other institutions in Norway to join us in the course. There are 15 participants this year from BIO Bergen, and we also have a group of biologists from the University of Oslo and…
At the 18th of September we, bioCEED student representatives, joined the MatRIC 2018 Annual Conference with the focus of “Students as partners in education”. It was interesting to hear the different ways of implementation in university settings, all with the goal of improving learning outcomes. We got an introduction to the concept of peer assessment…
Mads Forchhammer, Department of Arctic Biology, UNIS “Population ecology is about interactions …” was probably the first I said to my bachelor students in the UNIS course AB204 Arctic Population Ecology. Embracing enthusiastically the attention the students gave me this first morning, I continued “… and we will learn to not only understand biological interactions…
In June this summer I attended a summer course in fish physiology in Japan. The course was arranged by ExcelAQUA with its Japanese collaborators. You can read more about the IntPART project ExcelAQUA here. As a fish physiology student I found this course most valuable, with lab projects, field excursions and interesting lectures. Even though…
Soon it is time for the 5th Learning Forum at UNIS, which will take place from 16 – 18 October. 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. This year the Learning Forum will focus on collegial sharing practice…
In this presentation, Anders Ahlberg from Lund University talked about how lab exercises can be improved to enhance learning. Lab practicals provide rich and authentic opportunities for quality learning. However, this talk departed from critical observations of lab exercises where more exercises are added than removed lab exercises drift into passive cookbook demos lab exercises…
