We are two students doing an internship at bioCEED, based at UNIS, during this spring semester. Anne Bruls first came to UNIS as a BSc student in 2016. She is enrolled in a general MSc Biology program in Wageningen, the Netherlands, but her addiction to Arctic Biology led her to...
Interested in learning more about supporting students developing their academic writing? bioCEED invites you to a seminar with Lene Nordrum (Lund University). Wednesday 29th January, 13:15-14:00 at Auditorium 4, Realfagbygget, UiB Disciplinary literacy – how to read, write, and talk in a specific discipline – is the key to knowledge and success in...
The 6th annual teachers’ retreat was held on Dec 2nd and 3rd 2019 at the Fleischers’ Hotel, Voss, a short train-ride from Bergen. As always, our aim is to promote a collegial teaching culture at BIO. This year, the teachers’ retreat was devoted to the goals and visions for our...
BIO students were invited to a two-day workshop on how to make the best biology education for the future. On October 28th and 29th, in the midst of a busy semester, 18 students spent two whole days working on the bachelor degree in biology. They used the 5-step model of...
We recently told you about the use of 3D-printed pollen grains as teaching material in a paleoecology lab course (read about it here). It seems like the engagement around 3D-printing in teaching is spreading as fast as the flu. The latest (but certainly not last) victim of the epidemy is...
Don’t miss the new episodes of NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education (in Norwegian) produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The last five episodes are about: Den om merittering av undervisere Den om faglig fellesskap for ansatte og studenter Den om tilbakemelding og veiledning...
NOKUT – Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen – har publisert den rapporten “Praksis i fremragende miljøer – Innblikk i arbeidet med praksis i tre Sentre for fremragende utdanning“. Sammendrag Praksis har kommet på dagsorden etter at økt arbeidslivsrelevans for høyere utdanning ble et tydelig ønske fra politikere og andre...
Identifying pollen grains under the microscope may be challenging, especially to the untrained eye. This goes also for a multitude of biological structures with complex shapes, whether embedded in tissues or isolated from their original environment. The course BIO250 – Palaeoecology at the Department of Biological Sciences in Bergen has...
My name is Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen and I am the new Ph.D. scholar at bioCEED in Bergen. As an educational researcher, one might think that being surrounded by biologists all day long poses a lot of challenges, but admittedly it is not that bad (at least not so far!). And...
Cissy Ballen, Anne E .Bjune, Christian Jørgensen and Sehoya Cotner have recently published the paper “Smaller Classes Promote Equitable Student Participation in STEM” in BioScience. Abstract As science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classrooms in higher education transition from lecturing to active learning, the frequency of student interactions in...
Louis Deslauriers and colleagues recently published “Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom” in PNAS. Significance Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still...
The BIO-courses SDG214 Life below water , SDG215 Life on land, BIO201 Ecology and BIO241 Behavioural Ecology organized an open joint student poster session on 22nd May. This event turned out to be a major success, with full house of students and faculty alike. It might be that our pizza-serving...
bioCEED would like to recommend some interesting podcasts about Teaching and Learning in Norway: Nokutpodden Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest episodes of NOKUT-podden are: Den om studenten som kollegaveileder Den om medforsking som vurderingsform...
In a recent mixed-method study by Maï Yasué, Lucas M. Jeno, and Jody L. Langdon published in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, it was found that instructors that experienced freedom to make pedagogical decisions reported less extrinsic motivation for teaching. Further, extrinsic motivation for teaching...
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...
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...
On March 7th, the Olav Thon Foundation award winners of 2019 attended a formal ceremony at the Aula, the festive hall of the University of Oslo. bioCEEDsters Pernille B. Eidesen, Oddfrid Førland and Vigdis Vandvik, along with former student representative Ragnhild Gya were on stage to receive their awards from...
The UNIS course AB-202 Marine Arctic Biology led by Janne Søreide recently joined the bioST@TS family. Students enrolled in AB-202 spend approximately a week on field and cruise, collecting samples and data which they further analyse back at the lab. Organizing, sorting and cleaning data sets, drawing meaningful plots and...
Torstein Nielsen Hole’s trial lecture “Active learning and active students – when, how and why?”, held on March 8th, was streamed live on bioCEED’s youtube channel and is currently available here.