Earlier this month UiB announced that Christian Jørgensen from the Department of Biological Sciences at UiB and Pernille Bronken Eidesen from the Arctic Biology Department at UNIS were awarded Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) status. A total of 11 applicants applied in the second call for application to the Pedagogical Academy...
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...
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 Friday April 26th, Diku announced that two research projects from UNIS and UiB will receive NOK 4.7 million and 4.5 million respectively over a three year period in support of developing innovative teaching and assessment practices. The project «Utvikling, testing og evaluering av verktøy og vurderingsformer som fremmer meningsskapende...
Read one of these “kinder egg” books (easily read AND research based AND with practical guidelines and tips): Why don’t students like school? A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom written by Daniel Willingham. This book keeps what it promises,...