The 6th annual teachers’ retreat was held on Dec 2nd and 3rd 2019 at the Fleischers’ Hotel, Voss, a short train-ride from Bergen. As always, our aim is to promote a collegial teaching culture at BIO. This year, the teachers’ retreat was devoted to the goals and visions for our study programs, inspired by the…
BIO students were invited to a two-day workshop on how to make the best biology education for the future. On October 28th and 29th, in the midst of a busy semester, 18 students spent two whole days working on the bachelor degree in biology. They used the 5-step model of Design Thinking, providing us with…
We conducted our second and final bioBREAKFAST of the Autumn semester! As students have become to feel stressed with final exams and presentation and may have been feeling a little blue due to the dark season we thought a cozy bioBREAKFAST would be a nice way to start off the week. BioBREAKFAST is always a…
The first UNISprout project was successfully completed at UNIS this fall! Arctic Biology bachelor students Sari Dötterer and Annie Colgan participated in a project to process and identify bryophyte and lichen samples under the mentorship of Associate Professor Simone Lang. UNISprout is a student led bioCEED initiative developed by former bioCEED student representative, Ørjan Vabø.…
A quick tutorial has been made on how to do a screencast of a presentation or lecture using the free open-source software, Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). A screencast consists in a video recording of the data or any other visual content displayed on a computer screen, typically with comments in the form of subtitles or…
We recently told you about the use of 3D-printed pollen grains as teaching material in a paleoecology lab course (read about it here). It seems like the engagement around 3D-printing in teaching is spreading as fast as the flu. The latest (but certainly not last) victim of the epidemy is Jorun Nyléhn, associate professor at…
In October it was time for the different SFUs to meet at a network meeting, this time in beautiful Trondheim. The morning had an early start at 5 AM in Bergen. A bit short of time we rushed to Flesland airport to catch the 06:55 AM flight to Trondheim, getting the rest of our sleep…
Don’t miss the new episodes of NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education (in Norwegian) produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The last five episodes are about: Den om merittering av undervisere Den om faglig fellesskap for ansatte og studenter Den om tilbakemelding og veiledning Den om praksissamarbeid Den om…
The sixth annual Learning Forum at UNIS was held in October 2019 with around 65 participants joining the forum. Scientific staff, support staff and student representatives enjoyed 2.5 days of discussions, presentations and reflections on teaching and learning. As in previous years, the annual Learning Forum aimed to continue promoting a collegial teaching practice at…
