This exciting Learning Forum 2017 at UNIS is now come to an end. And here are some of the highlights! Harald Ellingsen, the Director at UNIS welcomed us all to the Learning Forum and sat the frames for the forum by going through the background, status and strategies for education...
13.-15. October, NOKUT invited engaged students from different organisations to a student gathering in Asker. The theme for the seminar was «students as partners in their own education: how Centres of Excellence include and stimulate students in their work». This included the development of the centres, teaching, centre projects, programme...
Studying biologists! My name is Torstein and I research biologists. This means that even though I work in the biology building I don’t go into the field to gather data, unless biologists ate there too. So, what in particular is interesting about biologists and how do I investigate them? First,...
This last week in September our Te2Le project team visited UNIS for a new production round of student tutorials. This year the student tutorials are based on the student project work at the Terrestrial Arctic Biology course (AB-201) where the students have been collecting the data material along the western and northern coast of...
As a Norwegian, one wishes to enjoy the full length of summer when it finally appears. Therefore, it was natural for us to spend the entire summer in Svalbard. Sure, we had freezing winds and an average temperature of 6°C, but we got to experience the midnight sun and Svalbard’s...
As the fall semester has begun at UNIS, we are happy to welcome Ingvild Eldøy and Svein Keizer as our new bioCEED student representatives in the north! Ingvild is from NTNU and is planning to become a teacher in biology and chemistry. Sven is originally from the Netherlands, but is studying biology at Nord University...
A variety of opportunities to apply for grant money are available to support educational initiatives in higher education. Below you’ll find information on some upcoming funding opportunities: SIU: Various relevant calls: https://www.siu.no/Kommende-frister Norgesuniversitetet: https://norgesuniversitetet.no/prosjekter – Application deadline 20 October The Research Council of Norway – FINNUT: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Funding/FINNUT/1254025524658?lang=en – Application deadline...
Soon it is time for the yearly Learning Forum at UNIS, which will take place from 24 – 26 October. This year 65 participants have signed up. The Learning Forum is an event where the entire UNIS teaching staff can share and gain knowledge regarding research based education, course construction...
This semester we have some old and some new faces among the biORACLE crew. Ragnhild and Mari are still the leaders, organizing all of it, and we have ten great oracles on the team. This term we are going for one oracle meeting every week on Wednesdays from 14-17. So...
Two of bioCEED´s MSc students in Education who have written their Master’s thesis on bioCEED-related topics have recently completed their degree. Sara Madeleine Kristensen and Kjell Daniel Kristensen successfully defended their thesis on June 22 and June 27, respectively. Congratulations! Sara Madeleine has conducted a cross-sectional study of first...
During spring 2017, we have organized bioCEED research meetings every other week. The research group has met for one hour were the meetings have consisted of theoretical and practical discussions, and feedback on individuals’ work. We have discussed diverse themes such as motivation, self-determination theory, qualitative and quantitative methods, learning,...
For more information about this year ISSOTL conference “Reaching new heights” which takes place in Calgary during October click here
As part of a course in collegial teaching and learning in STEM education (CPC2016) arranged by bioCEED for educators at UiB and UNIS, participants presented our course projects as full papers on the EuroSoTL 2017 conference at Lund University on June 7th-9th (for a view of the papers click here). The...
As the first Norwegian institution the University of Bergen rewards excellence in teaching practice through the newly established merit system Excellent Teaching Practitioner and Pedagogical Academy. Five university teachers at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences will be awarded status as Excellent Teaching Practitioner in a ceremony in the University...
The annual Learning festival in Trondheim aimed to introduce new, effective and exciting learning methods in higher education, and inspire and motivate educators to use them.. The program provided a variety of interesting topics, including sessions on for instance flipped classrooms, team-based learning, co-operative learning, and use of “serious games”...
On the 5th of May, the biology students at UNIS was introduced on how to write scientific papers by Kit Kovacs from the Norwegian Polar Institute. Kit has, in addition to writing book chapters, reports and popular articles, written over 200 publications, some of them published in journals like Science. During the seminar, Kit touch several themes...
On May 12th the bioCEED research group had a meeting on ethnography, with special focus on organizational and short-term ethnography. Ethnography is one of the main approaches in qualitative method and we discussed how it can be used to investigate teaching practices, knowledge, and culture. Ethnography doesn’t have to be...
The month of May marked the two first bioBreakfast meetings at UNIS. The project is student-led and initiated by bioCEED student representatives Malene Vinnes and Mari Engelstad. The project sets out to bridge the gap between Bachelor-, master- and Ph.D.-students at the biology department at the university center in Svalbard...
NOKUT has released the sixth edition of the SFU-magazine. Click on the cover to read the it (Norwegian).
Curious about the internship courses at BIO in Bergen? Listen to the radio programme EKKO in NRK P2 (25th of April) where students are telling about their internship experience: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/MDSP25008217/25-04-2017#t=1h11m43s) and read the students blog biologipraksis UiB here: http://biopraksis.w.uib.no/ The internship courses are initialized by the project PRIME and organized under...