As all other mainland universities, UNIS had to shut down in March 2020 and move to online teaching. It forced teachers to change almost all aspects of their teaching, including field work and lab work as well as exams and learning outcomes. As part of the evaluation of the COVID-19...
bioCEED congratulates our sister SFU iEarth with their formal opening at UNIS on October 13th! We are looking forward to years to come with collaboration on developing excellent educations at UNIS. iEarth received the status as a Centre for Excellence in Education in December 2019 which entails funding for five...
Like many others, biORAKEL needed to adapt for this pandemic to be able to resume our weekly meetings. Back in March, when the national lockdown went in effect and physical lectures were replaced with Zoom meetings, we took a small break to try and figure out how we could continue...
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MatNat) at UiB and the University Centre in Svalbard are inviting teachers to apply for the title of Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP). Applications may be submitted at any time throughout the year, with the deadline for application submission on January 7th, 2021 (for teachers at UiB) and January...
Researchers at the ArtsApp project have published a new study in Computers & Education entitled ” The effects of a goal-framing and need-supportive app on undergraduates’ intentions, effort, and achievement in mobile science learning “. The study was led by Associate Professor Lucas Jeno and Professor John-Arvid Grytnes from UiB,...
bioCEED, along with the Department of Education at UiB, held a two-day pedagogy course for TA´s (teaching assistants) and administrative staff with teaching responsibilities from the Department of Biological Sciences. The course was led by Associate Professor in University Pedagogy Lucas Jeno, with support from Christian Strømme and Dagmar Egelkraut....