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Quarter3-2023 / September 2023

Research article on how to fuel informal teaching conversations among teaching staff

Abstract University teachers grow professionally from conversations about learning and teaching with colleagues. Significant informal conversations can be facilitated through formal activities initiated from the institutional side. This case-study shows how a formal institutional initiative to enhance educational quality has facilitated more significant informal conversations. Such conversations power constructive feedback...

Remember to sign up for our Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM Education Course (MNPED660, 2023/24)

August 2023 / Quarter3-2023

Remember to sign up for our Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM Education Course (MNPED660, 2023/24)

MNPED660 Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education is an elective teaching and learning course in higher education offered by bioCEED and MN-UiB to all MN-UiB and UNIS staff. The course is given in English and requires no previous pedagogical training and welcomes both experienced...

August 2023 / Quarter3-2023

bioCEEDster: Sine-Sara Astad

Since 2019, I «Sine», have been a part of The University Centre in Svalbard, first as a biology student and then as support staff for the Department of Arctic Biology. I love Svalbard and biology, and I am very happy to be a part of bioCEED this semester at UNIS. I...

The photo shows PhD Marius Ole Johansen and his supervisors Sigrunn Eliassen and Lucas M. Jeno

April 2023 / Quarter2-2023

bioCEED congratulates PhD Marius Ole Johansen

Marius Ole Johansen successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Effects of autonomy and control on student motivation and functioning in higher education” at the University of Bergen on April 17th 2023. We warmly congratulate him for his achievement and new title. Marius is now the fourth bioCEED candidate to complete his...

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Teaching and learning workshop – Landing the redesign process for the BSc-degree in biology

At the Department of biological sciences (BIO), University of Bergen, the HKDIR-funded project “Student active research and transferable skills in redesign of the biology education” has been concluded. As a collaboration between bioCEED, BIO and the UiB Learning Lab, its main purpose was to strengthen student active learning and alignment...

Funding creates new opportunities for the Arctic Field Laboratory in Bjørndalen

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Funding creates new opportunities for the Arctic Field Laboratory in Bjørndalen

In 2019, Arctic Biology Department received a grant of 1,350,000 NOK from the Olav Thon Foundation to establish a high-Arctic, interdisciplinary field laboratory for research and teaching in Bjørndalen, also called BIG (Bjørndalen Integrated Gradient). Since then, the project has been developed and Bjørndalen has become an important strategic area for the department...

Two new bioBEES join the hive

May 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Two new bioBEES join the hive

bioCEED is happy to welcome two new bioBEES in the hive: BSc student Gina Koulibaly Barry and MSc student Hanif Kawousi. bioHIVE is the learning community at bioCEED that is focused on student work in the Centre. Among the activities of bioHIVE are the student journal Bikuben, organizing and leading...

Publication by Oddfrid Førland and Torgny Roxå: Establishing reward systems for excellence in teaching – the experience of academics pioneering a reward system

May 2023 / Quarter2-2023

New publication about reward systems for excellence in teaching

ABSTRACT Higher education institutions are struggling to elevate the value and status of academic teaching. In this endeavour, rewards for excellence in teaching are becoming a common measure. This study reports on the experience of the first academic teachers who were given the status as rewarded teachers in new reward...

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

bioCEED teaching and learning toolkit is expanding!

In the bioCEED teaching and learning toolkit we present short cases that describe some of our teaching innovations and activities, and share links to resources. We hope this can inspire other students, teachers, and educational developers to make their versions of theses learning experiences. We have now expanded the toolkit...

New members of the Pedagogical Academy

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

New members of the Pedagogical Academy

On 8 June, MatNat-UiB and UNIS announced the recipients of the recent Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) designation. Given that all seven of the new ETPs are affiliated closely with one of the UiB/UNIS Centres for Excellence in Education (SFUs)—four with bioCEED and three with iEarth—it is clear that these centres...

chatGPT essay in Science Norway

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

chatGPT essay in Science Norway

In April, Ståle Ellingsen, Anne Bjune, and Sehoya Cotner (all BIO-UiB) published an essay in Science Norway on teaching with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as chatGPT. Here, we present data from a February 2023 survey indicating that students have been more likely to engage with the tool than instructors...

Photo of the bioCEED stand held by Ruben S. Thormodsæter

June 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Passion for educational escape-boxes!

Once again at Marineholmen, this time during Passion For Ocean festival on the 3rd of June, bioCEED showed up with 3 cardboard boxes on a table. People visiting our stand were faced with a challenge to open a series of padlocks, and the solution to open them was to be...

May 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Student Poster Symposium at BIO – Spring 2023

The ninth edition of the Student Poster Symposium at BIO ends again with a record: never before have as many as seven courses contributed to the symposium at the same time. And again we are delighted to see that the quality of the work provided by the students (both posters...

March 2023 / Quarter2-2023

Research article on student motivation in higher education

Abstract According to Self-Determination Theory, autonomy support is essential in fostering optimal learning, growth, and functioning in students across all levels. In contrast, autonomy thwarting is associated with student malfunctioning. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between perceptions of autonomy support and thwarting, students’ autonomous...

Photo of Anja Møgelvang

March 2023 / Quarter1-2023

bioCEED congratulates PhD Anja Møgelvang

Anja Møgelvang successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate STEM Education: Applications and Outcomes” at the University of Bergen on March 14th 2023. We warmly congratulate her for her achievement and new title. Anja becomes bioCEED’s third candidate to complete her degree after Torstein N. Hole and Lucas...