Mads Forchhammer is professor in terrestrial zoology at the AB department at UNIS. He is responsible for the bachelor course AB-203 Arctic Environmental Management which is running every spring. Mads shared his thoughts on how to strengthen the link between the different guest lectures and topics within a course that...
Cissy Ballen is a postdoc at the University of Minnesota and her research centers on strategies to reduce attrition of historically underrepresented groups in STEM fields. Cissy gave a seminar on how active learning can improve diversity and affect the learning performance by students, based on the work she has...
1st place Submitted by: inemox Submitted on: Instagram 2nd place Submitted by: grobrot Submitted on: Instagram 3rd place Submitted by: sivahau Submitted on: Instagram The second edition of our #LearningBiology2016 photo contest ended on June 15th. The awarded pictures were all submitted on Instagram. Congratulations to inemox,...
Students can generate large data series through project-based coursework. Their engagement in the project will deepen if they experience that their efforts are relevant outside of the course context. Therefore, educators should have a plan for how the data will be stored and used before the course starts, and that...