On March 7th, the Olav Thon Foundation award winners of 2019 attended a formal ceremony at the Aula, the festive hall of the University of Oslo. bioCEEDsters Pernille B. Eidesen, Oddfrid Førland and Vigdis Vandvik, along with former student representative Ragnhild Gya were on stage to receive their awards from...
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...
In mid-March brave UNIS AB-202 marine biology students dressed up to survive freezing temperatures (-20°C) to explore the marine gradient from coast to deep fjord in Isfjorden, Svalbard at 78°N latitude. It is an important goal and principle that UNIS shall conduct research-based education there students not only gain theoretical...
The UNIS course AB-202 Marine Arctic Biology led by Janne Søreide recently joined the bioST@TS family. Students enrolled in AB-202 spend approximately a week on field and cruise, collecting samples and data which they further analyse back at the lab. Organizing, sorting and cleaning data sets, drawing meaningful plots and...
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...
Wednesday the 6th of March, a networking-seminar with the SFUs was held at Scandic Hotel Flesland in Bergen, with DIKU as a host. bioCEED was well represented at the meeting, and had four student representatives there. After the takeover of the SFU initiative by DIKU from NOKUT, there were many...
This semester’s second bioBREAKFAST was held at UNIS on Friday March 22nd. After having heaps of trouble finding PhD and master students to present for the first bioBREAKFAST, and it being announced only on a three day notice, we had extra big expectations this Friday morning. This time, we had an...
Torstein Nielsen Hole’s trial lecture “Active learning and active students – when, how and why?”, held on March 8th, was streamed live on bioCEED’s youtube channel and is currently available here.
My name is Tina and I am working as a teaching adviser for bioCEED at the Department of Arctic Biology at UNIS in Longyearbyen. Working as a teaching adviser is an exciting job with a variety of tasks every day. My main responsibility is to organize bioCEED activities at the...
Diku announced in February a new funding round for up to six new Centres for Excellence in Education (SFU) with application deadline 29 of April. Universities and university colleges are invited to apply for 4 to 8 million NOK annually for new centres. SFU status is awarded for five years,...
Rachelle Esterhazy (Department of Education, University of Oslo) and Øyvind Fiksen (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen) have recently published the paper “Evolution of a portfolio-based design in ecology: a three-year design cycle” in Uniped. Abstract Portfolio-based designs are among the most popular student-centered approaches in higher education....
Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest episode of NOKUT-podden was broadcasted live from the NOKUT conference 2019 on January 31st. This time, the topic was: “What makes universities and university colleges such magic places?” and...