This year’s participants in the bioCEED course Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM Education will present their group projects in Lund at the conference EuroSoTL 2017– Transforming patterns through the scholarship of teaching and learning, June 8-9. The conference has a very interesting programme, including the papers from the bioCEED...
The annual Learning festival in Trondheim aimed to introduce new, effective and exciting learning methods in higher education, and inspire and motivate educators to use them.. The program provided a variety of interesting topics, including sessions on for instance flipped classrooms, team-based learning, co-operative learning, and use of “serious games”...
On the 5th of May, the biology students at UNIS was introduced on how to write scientific papers by Kit Kovacs from the Norwegian Polar Institute. Kit has, in addition to writing book chapters, reports and popular articles, written over 200 publications, some of them published in journals like Science. During the seminar, Kit touch several themes...
On May 12th the bioCEED research group had a meeting on ethnography, with special focus on organizational and short-term ethnography. Ethnography is one of the main approaches in qualitative method and we discussed how it can be used to investigate teaching practices, knowledge, and culture. Ethnography doesn’t have to be...
The month of May marked the two first bioBreakfast meetings at UNIS. The project is student-led and initiated by bioCEED student representatives Malene Vinnes and Mari Engelstad. The project sets out to bridge the gap between Bachelor-, master- and Ph.D.-students at the biology department at the university center in Svalbard...
NOKUT has released the sixth edition of the SFU-magazine. Click on the cover to read the it (Norwegian).
As part of the interim evaluation of the Centres of Excellence in Education, we were asked by NOKUT and the evaluation committee to write a self-evaluation report. Looking back on 3 years of activity and summing up was a challenging but rewarding exercise! So what has happened since April 1st...
Curious about the internship courses at BIO in Bergen? Listen to the radio programme EKKO in NRK P2 (25th of April) where students are telling about their internship experience: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/MDSP25008217/25-04-2017#t=1h11m43s) and read the students blog biologipraksis UiB here: http://biopraksis.w.uib.no/ The internship courses are initialized by the project PRIME and organized under...
The Research Council of Norways programme FINNUT invites entities and organisations in the educational sector to seek funding to develop innovation projects as part of the effort to enhance the role of research in renewal and innovation. Deadline for application is set to 24 of May 2017. For more information follow the...
On March 27th, bioCEED’s student representatives at UiB Ragnhild Gya and Mari Vold Bjordal hosted together with Studentersamfunnet a meeting about unequal participation between genders in the lecture halls and in meetings. For this occasion, they had invited Sehoya Cotner and Cissy Ballen from the University of Minnesota, and Ole-Petter...
On the eve of the latest United Nations report, revealing Norway to be “The Happiest Place on Earth,” I arrived at the coldest place I’ve ever been—Longyearbyen. As a biology-education researcher from the University of Minnesota, I’ve been working with bioceed for a year, but this was my first visit...
In collaboration with our associate professor Sehoya Cotner and postdoc Cissy Ballen (University of Minnesota) bioCEED has initiated a project to map how biology faculty currently teach and what characterizes their teaching. During spring 2017 data will be collected at UNIS with emphasize on: What characterizes the student experience at AB? How do students...
Welcome to our new bioCEED student representatives at UNIS! Malene Klakegg Vinnes and Mari Engelstad are going to join in the bioCEED team for the spring semester 2017. bioCEED are looking very much forward to have you both in our group! Malene Klakegg Vinnes: I am a student at...
Students can generate large data series through project-based coursework. Their engagement in the project will deepen if they experience that their efforts are relevant outside of the course context. Therefore, educators should have a plan for how the data will be stored and used before the course starts, and that...