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...
My name is Pernille Bronken Eidesen, and I am working as Associate professor in the Arctic Biology department at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). Our department is one of the four main partners in bioCEED. I am the deputy leader of bioCEED, and have the responsibility for bioCEED activities...
On Tuesday, November 21st, more than 160 representatives from Higher Education institutions across Norway met at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA) to discuss alignment in educational programs, at the invitation from the Ministry of Education and Research. The conference was a follow-up of the recent White...
Teachers in BIO104 – Comparative physiology have been delivered their first video for the lab course in microbiology taught at BIO during the spring semester. The course introduces to the bi-phasic (diauxic) growth of Vibrio natriegens in a mixture of two distinct carbon sources. In this short video which you can...
Under the Teach2Learn project, master students have produced a new series of video tutorials in the course Ocean Science (BIO325), led by professor Anne Gro Vea Salvanes at the Department of Biology, UiB. The tutorials act as additional teaching support to introduce fellow students to sampling methods and instruments used to collect...