In 2018 there has been some excitement about whether there would be a new funding round for new Centres for Excellence in Education (SFU). Last application round was in 2016 which ended with 4 new centres. In the proposal for the 2019 National Budget in October 2018, 25 million NOK were granted to strengthen the competitive arena…
Monthly Archives: November 2018
When you run out of chairs
The last bioBreakfast of 2018 at UNIS broke all the attendance records, with 44 participants. All the departments at UNIS were represented by the bachelor and master students. There were two speakers, Sarah Strand from Geology who talked about the PhD she is writing about permafrost, and Vanessa Pitusi who is writing her master in…
Read about bioCEED’s activities in the last SFU magazine.
Say hello to Marius, our new bioCEEDster!
ArtsApp kick-off
The Norwegian Research Council project “ArtsApp: How technology impacts motivation and interest for learning species” recently started. The project officially started January 1st, 2018, but recently hired Lucas Jeno as the Postdoctal Fellow that will lead the research activity for the project. The project last until the end of 2021 and aims at having a…
Former biology students share their experience at bioPUB
In October, the student representatives of bioCEED arranged a variant of bioBREAKFAST (bioPUB) together with the aquaculture student organisation “Linjeforeningen for fiskehelse og havbruk (LFFH)”. Students gathered at the student pub Integrerbar for an afternoon with talks from master and graduated UiB students who now work in the aquaculture industry. The learning triangle was slightly…
New article: Teaching the science of biology with “species” as an example
Understanding how science works has become a primary goal in education, as it connects to critical thinking and the foundations of knowledge. This includes the more complex and overarching topics like evolutionary biology. In this recently published paper from the Department of Biosciences, UiB and the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, UiO, the…
“Students who teach”, NOKUT-podden with Sehoya Cotner
Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.
The latest edition of NOKUT-podden is about “Students who teach” and includes an interview with Sehoya Cotner, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and Professor II at bioCEED.
There is much to learn from this podcast, especially if you understand Norwegian. Here are the latest episodes: