Two university teachers awarded Excellent Teaching Practitioner status at the University of Bergen
Monthly Archives: April 2019
bioCEED at the MNT Conference 2019
The MNT (STEM) Conference is always a great opportunity to meet colleagues from around Norway to be inspired, discuss, present and reflect on teaching and learning in STEM! This year’s conference (MNT2019 – Constructive alignment) lived up to our expectations and we enjoyed many excellent presentations and discussion over the two conference days in beautiful…
Fish To Mars – The Metal Science Opera is back.
Fish To Mars comes back on May 10th, 11th and 14th at the Aquarium of Bergen with a new, improved show, new cast and crew. Buy your tickets HERE. What would happen if Bruce Dickinson and David Attenborough made a musical? we have an idea: Fish To Mars: the Metal Science Opera, premiering 10th…
bioCEED congratulates PhD Torstein N. Hole!
Torstein N. Hole successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Learning through practice in biology education” at the University of Bergen on April, 25th 2019. We warmly congratulate him with his achievement and new title! bioCEED’s second candidate to complete a PhD degree will be remembered as “the undercover pedagog“, the one “who studied biologists who study…
Diku funds two new educational development projects at UNIS and UiB
On Friday April 26th, Diku announced that two research projects from UNIS and UiB will receive NOK 4.7 million and 4.5 million respectively over a three year period in support of developing innovative teaching and assessment practices. The project «Utvikling, testing og evaluering av verktøy og vurderingsformer som fremmer meningsskapende samsvar i feltundervisning / Development,…
Want to learn more about learning?
Read one of these “kinder egg” books (easily read AND research based AND with practical guidelines and tips): Why don’t students like school? A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom written by Daniel Willingham. This book keeps what it promises, and discusses nine highly relevant…