BioCEED is inviting you to celebrate our 10-year anniversary! March 6th, 12:00-17:00, in the University Aula, UiB. Register here At the anniversary seminar we will share some of what we have learnt through 10 years of educational development and educational research. The seminar will end with a reception with refreshments....
The student event “Veien til Arbeidslivet” (the Path to Working life), held at the MatNat student bar Integrerbar, was a remarkable success with an audience of 70 enthusiastic students. The event was organised by bioBEE and Gina Koulibaly Barry and hosted by Gina and Silje Maria Midthjell Høydal. The highlight...
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...
bioCEED – Senter for framifrå utdanning i biologi, søkjer inntil fem studentmedarbeidarar (fagkonsulentar, 20%-stillingar) som skal bidra til bioCEED sitt arbeid med å fremme studentaktiv læring, forskingspraksis og –aktivitet i undervisinga ved Institutt for biovitskap (BIO). Stillingane vil bidra i pågåande undervisningsutvikling og læringsforsking ved senteret. Ved å delta i dette arbeidet vil fagkonsulentane få direkte erfaring med utviklingsprosessar i eit inspirerande akademisk miljø. Perioden for tilsetting...
We are now launching the bioCEED toolkit, where we present short cases that describe some of our teaching and learning innovations and activities. We hope they can inspire other students, teachers, and educational developers to make their version of these learning experiences. The cases present a short background and purpose,...
After a seemingly never-ending pandemic, two larger conferences were finally taking place physically this early summer: the International Consortium for Educational Development conference (ICED) and EuroSoTL22. ICED was held in Århus, Denmark in May – and Roy, Kristin and Anja from bioCEED was there, of course. The ICED conferences gather...
The past year, we have established a peer reviewed journal for showcasing scientific work done by students at BIO. Bikuben Student Journal has steadily grown during this time and has gotten many interesting submissions. To date we have published seven of these on our website, https://bikuben.org. We are now almost...
My name is Simen, and I work at the University Centre in Svalbard at the Arctic biology department. I have spent some time here, both as a biology student and working in different positions an even as an intern for bioCEED. Besides my interest in biology, I also love doing...
In June the receipients of the Thon award for excellent teaching in 2021 and 2022 were finally able to accept their reward at a ceremony in Oslo. Among the receipients were our very own Sigrunn Eliassen (2021) and Vigdis Vandvik (2022). In the photo (by Rein Aasland) they are joined...
The 7th annual bioCEED Teachers Retreat took place June 13th and 14th at Hotel Park Vossevangen on Voss. bioCEED was happy to announce the BIO Teachers Retreat after having to postpone several times due to pandemic restrictions. The Teachers Retreat is an annual seminar/workshop for all teachers at The Department...
How to study is one thing, but what to study for is a completely different matter. In order to enlighten students about future job opportunities, bioCEED organized a career seminar at UNIS on the 20th of May 2022. To represent a wide range of career options, three speakers were invited:...
Course Information Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM Education is an elective teaching and learning course in higher education offered by bioCEED to all MN-UiB and UNIS¹ staff². The course is given in English and requires no previous pedagogical training and welcomes both experienced and more novice teachers and staff. On...
(Norwegian only) Er du student og interessert i forsking og utdanning? bioCEED –Senter for framifrå utdanning i biologi, søkjer inntil tre til fem fagkonsulentar (20%-stillingar) som skal bidra til bioCEED sitt arbeid med å fremja studentaktiv læring, forskingspraksis og –aktivitet i undervisninga ved Institutt for biovitskap (BIO). Stillingane vil særleg bidra...
This week we had some great news. Our proposal for the HKdir call Økt arbeidsrelevans i høyere utdanning (Increased work relevance in higher education) was funded! We are excited to get started on developing evidence-based mentoring for better STEM work placement along with an excellent team of partners in 2022!...
The editors of the Nordic Journal of STEM Education, in an effort to revive the journal, will host a two-day in-person workshop (March 7 and 8, 2022, in downtown Oslo) to guide authors in developing a manuscript for NJSTEME. Through a generous grant from Universities Norway, we can cover reasonable...
Ten years of promoting excellence in education is worthy of celebration. Thus, HKDir invited the SFUs to a Network meeting and 10 year anniversary celebration in Oslo 10 and 11 November. Seven bioCEED representatives joined members of each of the other SFUs and HKdir to mark the occasion and look...
In November, more than 40 teachers at BIO joined in the digital teacher meeting to sum up our experiences from this semester with online and hybrid teaching. We all recognize that it has been a different semester, due to the Covid 19 restrictions which have been rapidly changing back and...
To further support research and development work in bioCEED, we have recently hired five students as research assistants in 20% positions. Our new colleagues will work on ongoing projects, in particular program redesign, student active research and outreach. We had many motivated and qualified applicants among the biology students at...
The 13th of March universities across Norway closed their campuses to prevent the spread of Covid-19. All teaching was moved online, and the aim was to secure learning outcomes and support students through the semester. This was a massive shift for students and teachers alike, and we had to start...
