Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest two editions of NOKUT-podden are about: Assessment (Den om vurdering) Literacy (Den om tekstforståelse) There is much to learn from this podcast, especially if you understand Norwegian… Here are the...
In 2018 there has been some excitement about whether there would be a new funding round for new Centres for Excellence in Education (SFU). Last application round was in 2016 which ended with 4 new centres. In the proposal for the 2019 National Budget in October 2018, 25 million NOK were granted...
The last bioBreakfast of 2018 at UNIS broke all the attendance records, with 44 participants. All the departments at UNIS were represented by the bachelor and master students. There were two speakers, Sarah Strand from Geology who talked about the PhD she is writing about permafrost, and Vanessa Pitusi who...
The latest edition of NOKUT‘s SFU-magazine is out! And it is also the last one as DIKU (The Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education) takes over the responsibility for administrating the SFU-initiative from January 1st. Among the many interesting articles in this edition, you will...
bioCEED is glad to introduce Marius Ole Johansen as a new recruit. Marius started on his position as a PhD student at the Department for Biological Sciences (UiB) on November 19th. He has a Master’s degree in Nuclear Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at UiB, as...
The Norwegian Research Council project “ArtsApp: How technology impacts motivation and interest for learning species” recently started. The project officially started January 1st, 2018, but recently hired Lucas Jeno as the Postdoctal Fellow that will lead the research activity for the project. The project last until the end of 2021...
In October, the student representatives of bioCEED arranged a variant of bioBREAKFAST (bioPUB) together with the aquaculture student organisation “Linjeforeningen for fiskehelse og havbruk (LFFH)”. Students gathered at the student pub Integrerbar for an afternoon with talks from master and graduated UiB students who now work in the aquaculture industry....
Understanding how science works has become a primary goal in education, as it connects to critical thinking and the foundations of knowledge. This includes the more complex and overarching topics like evolutionary biology. In this recently published paper from the Department of Biosciences, UiB and the Department of Teacher Education...
Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest edition of NOKUT-podden is about “Students who teach” and includes an interview with Sehoya Cotner, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and Professor II at bioCEED. There is...
The annual conference of ISSOTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) was this year hosted in Bergen from October 24-27. bioCEED contributed with 11 presentations in the sessions with papers, concurrent workshops and posters. The full list of bioCEED contributions and authors is found below with links to...
It has been an honor and a privilege for bioCEED, in partnership with the Department of Education, University of Bergen, to host ISSOTL18 in Bergen. We would like to thank the ISSOTL Board of Directors for giving us the opportunity to bring the ISSOTL conference to Bergen, and the more...
It all happened in 4 days with 6 pre-conference workshops, 4 keynotes, 202 paper presentations, 15 panel discussions, 28 concurrent workshops and 118 poster presentations. Here are some pictures from the conference to enjoy!
Diku (Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education) has announced NOK 40 million in funding for projects that will develop, test, evaluate and apply student centered learning and assessment methods. The announcement is open to all subject areas and targets development projects that include entire study programs or...
As former student representatives in bioCEED, Mari and I attended the ISSOTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) 2018 conference: “Toward a learning culture”. Several other students affiliated with the University of Bergen and bioCEED also participated as volunteers and attended the conference. Here is a short...
From Tuesday, October 16th to Thursday, October 18th, the fifth UNIS Learning Forum took place with 45 participants across the different departments. A variety of themes with different disciplinary perspectives was covered. This year’s Learning Forum aimed primarily at promoting a collegial teaching practice. Eleven members of the academic staff...
Supporting students´ motivation increase their achievement and reduce dropout A recent research published by researchers at bioCEED and the Department of Education at UiB finds that teachers that supports students´ motivation early in the semester predicts students´ end-of semester grade in biology. Furthermore, supporting students´ motivation reduces their intentions of...
On September 5th, 2018, our brilliant students received UiB’s Learning Environment Prize 2018 for their project biORACLE (biORAKEL in Norwegian)! What an achievement! UiB’s Learning Environment prize is given to units, groups or individuals that have worked successfully with improving the learning enviroment and enhanced student learning. It is up...
My name is Janne E. Søreide and I am an Associate Professor in Marine biology at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). I am the UNIS responsible for work package 3 Active learning in BioCEED. Formally, I have limited pedagogic education but I strongly believe that active learning through research-based...
MNT Conference “Constructive Alignment”, March 28-29 2019, Tromsø. Call for papers 31 October.
ISSOTL2018 is now less than a month away – and we are very much looking forward to welcoming 600+ colleagues and friends to Bergen in October! If you want to come prepared, you should take a good look at the Conference program – with over 200 paper presentations, 28 workshops,...