The Research Council of Norways FINNUT programme announced NOK 72 million in funding for Researcher Projects on and for the educational sector with a deadline 22nd Nov. bioCEED submitted two proposals for research projects within our focus areas. The proposal ENIGMA: The hidden structures and processes promoting and hindering educational...
During late November, bioCEED hosted a meeting for hosts and students that are part of the work placement course at the Department of Biology. Students who enroll in the course spend 140 hours working as a biologist at a workplace. The intention of the dialogue meeting was to continue the...
From 2018 UNIS will be a part of the same merit system for teaching as for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen. This was announced by the director Harald Ellingsen during this year’s Learning Forum at UNIS in October. Teachers at UNIS from all four scientific...
On November 16th, SiU and the Research Council announced the new INTPART (International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation) projects that have been funded. We are delighted that two projects from Department of Biology, UiB, with bioCEED support, where funded! The project Connecting hands-on-PRactice and Innovative MArine ecological sampling...
On November 23rd-24th, the Norwegian Agency for Digital Learning in Higher Education (Norgesuniversitetet) and the University of Bergen hosted the National conference: Digitalization in higher education. The conference included topics related to the digitalization of teaching, assessment and dissemination, digital tools as support for student-active learning methods and employment relevance in...
NOKUT (the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education) has recently started its own podcast-channel “NOKUT-Podden” designed for teachers and educational experts. NOKUT-Podden comes monthly in 20 minute-long episodes dealing with current themes in higher education, interviews with guests bringing their own tips and concrete examples, etc. The first episode featured bioCEED...
My name is Gro, I am employed as senior scientist at the Institute of Marine Research, the national applied research institute connected to the ministry of Trade and Fisheries. My personal expertise is ecology, ethology and governmental ecosystem state- and advisory reports. This means I need to keep myself informed...
In the beginning of November, student representatives at UNIS arranged a movie night on marine plastic pollution. This evening, around 40 students, both from biology and other departments attended to learn more about, and discuss the issues related to the increasing amount of plastic in the ocean. Geir Wing Gabrielsen...
The Norwegian version of the seventh edition of SFU-magazine is now available on NOKUT’s website. Click here or on the picture below to read it.
Higher education is often divided into discipline-oriented and professional programs. While work placements are common in the professional programs, they are less common in discipline-oriented programs. We now offer a course in the disciplinary program in biology at the University of Bergen where students work 140 hours as biologist with...
A new study by bioCEED-members and collaborators from the Department of Education (UiB) and the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, has been published in the scientific journal CBE-Life Sciences Education. The investigation was a quasi-experiment in which 64 students participated in traditional lectures for four weeks and then Team-Based...