The BIO-courses SDG214 Life below water , SDG215 Life on land, BIO201 Ecology and BIO241 Behavioural Ecology organized an open joint student poster session on 22nd May. This event turned out to be a major success, with full house of students and faculty alike. It might be that our pizza-serving...
bioCEED would like to recommend some interesting podcasts about Teaching and Learning in Norway: Nokutpodden Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest episodes of NOKUT-podden are: Den om studenten som kollegaveileder Den om medforsking som vurderingsform...
Last year the annual ISSOTL conference “Toward a Learning Culture” took place in Bergen and was hosted by University of Bergen and bioCEED. The international Society of Teaching and Learning is one of the major international SoTL societies, and hosting the society’s 2018 annual conference brought 680 SoTL scholars and...
This semester, five students participated in the all new course, AB-208 Internship in Arctic Biology. After gaining new knowledge and skills from working at different companies here in Longyearbyen, they are ready to finish up and call it a day. We were introduced to the students a while ago, but...
In a recent mixed-method study by Maï Yasué, Lucas M. Jeno, and Jody L. Langdon published in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, it was found that instructors that experienced freedom to make pedagogical decisions reported less extrinsic motivation for teaching. Further, extrinsic motivation for teaching...