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...
bioCEED has recently submitted the Annual report for 2018, and this gave us an opportunity to reflect on what we do, how we do it and why. And as it turned out – what we call our focus areas… bioCEEDs greatest pride, and arguably also our greatest achievement, is the...
Vigdis has been asked to provide a case study on how bioCEED have contributed to develop frameworks for ‘reward and recognition’ for teaching and learning in Higher Education I Norway. The case study will be featured in the 5th edition of the classic “A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in...
ISSOTL2018 is now less than a month away – and we are very much looking forward to welcoming 600+ colleagues and friends to Bergen in October! If you want to come prepared, you should take a good look at the Conference program – with over 200 paper presentations, 28 workshops,...
The 3rd edition of bioCEEDs Collegial project course (CPC) 2018-19 started up in August, and this time we invited biology teachers from other institutions in Norway to join us in the course. There are 15 participants this year from BIO Bergen, and we also have a group of biologists from...
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. The Early bird deadline for ISSOTL2018 is 01 September 2018! Register today to get the early bird discount! Conference...
The International Consortium for Educational Development Conference (ICED) 2018 was held in Atlanta in June, with the theme Institutional Change: Voices, Identities, Power, and Outcomes. bioCEED was well represented at the conference, presenting 3 papers. The Collegial Project Course – a systematic way towards institutional change, and a discussion piece...
Collegial Teaching and Learning – in Biology Education as an elective course in teaching and learning for teachers in higher education. The course consists of two separate units corresponding to two plus one (three) weeks of full-time work. The language of instruction is Norwegian/Swedish or English. This time, the course...
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will...
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will...
February 16th Lucas Jeno successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “The antecedents and consequences of students´ autonomous motivation. The relation between need-support, motivation, and academic achievement” and completed his PhD degree at the University of Bergen! You can read a short summary of Lucas’ work here. The day started with Lucas giving...
Friday, February 16, 2018 is a big day for bioCEED, and especially for Lucas Jeno who will defend his PhD degree at the University of Bergen with the dissertation: “The antecedents and consequences of students’ autonomous motivation. The relation between need-support, motivation, and academic achievement». We congratulate Lucas with an...
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will...
Last week we got an early Christmas present when the NOKUT board decided to extend bioCEEDs status as a Centre for Excellence in Education by five additional years! The decision was made after an extensive interim evaluation (which you can read about here, here and here!), a process that has...
The teaching staff at BIO (UiB) gathered for the Annual Teachers Retreat in beautiful surroundings in Os outside Bergen 30 November- 01 December. At the teachers retreat the BIO teaching staff and bioCEED meet to share experience about teaching and learning and to present examples and findings from their own...
2017 is almost over, and with the end of the semester comes the time for thanking one of our excellent student representatives and welcoming a new one! bioCEED would like to thank Ragnhild Gya for serving as a student representative in bioCEED at UiB for the last 1.5 years! Ragnhild...
The Research Council of Norways FINNUT programme announced NOK 72 million in funding for Researcher Projects on and for the educational sector with a deadline 22nd Nov. bioCEED submitted two proposals for research projects within our focus areas. The proposal ENIGMA: The hidden structures and processes promoting and hindering educational...
On November 16th, SiU and the Research Council announced the new INTPART (International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation) projects that have been funded. We are delighted that two projects from Department of Biology, UiB, with bioCEED support, where funded! The project Connecting hands-on-PRactice and Innovative MArine ecological sampling...
It was a very excited group of UiB/bioCEEDers that went to Calgary, Canada, to join the ISSOTL2017 Conference – Reaching new heights. We traveled there to be conference participants and presenters, but also to learn. Next year it is our turn to host the ISSOTL conference in Bergen! Roy Andersson,...
Last week bioCEED handed in the very final document in the Centre of Excellence mid-term evaluation process, our Action Plan for the next funding period, to NOKUT. Our job is now done (more about that here) and we now eagerly await the evaluation panel’s final report and the NOKUT Board’s...