Excellent Teaching Practitioner – The criticism is similar to climate denial
Read På Hoyden’s interview with our PhD student Torstein Hole: Merittering: Kritikken liknar klimafornekting
bioCEED news Blog
Collegial Project Course 2018-2019
The 3rd edition of bioCEEDs Collegial project course (CPC) 2018-19 started up in August, and this time we invited biology teachers from other institutions in Norway to join us in the course. There are 15 participants this year from BIO Bergen, and we also have a group of biologists from...
Students as partners – a student view from the annual Matric Conference and SFU network meeting
At the 18th of September we, bioCEED student representatives, joined the MatRIC 2018 Annual Conference with the focus of “Students as partners in education”. It was interesting to hear the different ways of implementation in university settings, all with the goal of improving learning outcomes. We got an introduction to...
An opinion piece: bioST@TS is a most important learning tool in analytical population ecology
Mads Forchhammer, Department of Arctic Biology, UNIS “Population ecology is about interactions …” was probably the first I said to my bachelor students in the UNIS course AB204 Arctic Population Ecology. Embracing enthusiastically the attention the students gave me this first morning, I continued “… and we will learn to...
Travel letter from Japan
In June this summer I attended a summer course in fish physiology in Japan. The course was arranged by ExcelAQUA with its Japanese collaborators. You can read more about the IntPART project ExcelAQUA here. As a fish physiology student I found this course most valuable, with lab projects, field excursions...
Collegial sharing practice – Learning Forum at UNIS in October
Soon it is time for the 5th Learning Forum at UNIS, which will take place from 16 – 18 October. The Learning Forum is an event where the entire UNIS teaching staff can share and gain knowledge regarding research based education, course construction and development. This year the Learning Forum will...
Hands on and reflection in student lab learning – Lunch seminar at UNIS
In this presentation, Anders Ahlberg from Lund University talked about how lab exercises can be improved to enhance learning. Lab practicals provide rich and authentic opportunities for quality learning. However, this talk departed from critical observations of lab exercises where more exercises are added than removed lab exercises drift into...
ISSOTL18 – Toward a learning culture – register today!
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. The Early bird deadline for ISSOTL2018 is 01 September 2018! Register today to get the early bird discount! Conference...
bioCEED at ICED2018
The International Consortium for Educational Development Conference (ICED) 2018 was held in Atlanta in June, with the theme Institutional Change: Voices, Identities, Power, and Outcomes. bioCEED was well represented at the conference, presenting 3 papers. The Collegial Project Course – a systematic way towards institutional change, and a discussion piece...
Teaching portfolio workshop at UNIS
In the end of August Anders Ahlberg from Lund University held a teaching portfolio workshop at UNIS where participants got feedback by their peers and by workshop leader on their teaching portfolio writing. For faculty members a teaching portfolio is a way to document and analyse their own teaching practices to...
Funding possibilities for learning and teaching
Funding to apply for regarding teaching in higher education: Olav Thon foundation – application deadline 15 September Norgesuniversitetet – application deadline 22 October SIU: Various relevant calls bioCEED small grants: bioCEED works to develop, test and document the impacts of new teaching and learning methods in biology. You can now apply for small...
bioCEEDSters – on the inside of bioCEED
Biologists as lab rats! My name is Lucas and I conduct experiments on biologists. My passion in life is motivation, specifically what motivates humans and how can we sustain motivation. I have been fortunate enough to be able to investigate these questions here at bioCEED. My main training is in...
A new blog on teaching and learning in biology
The newly started blog https://biologididaktikk.w.uib.no/ on teaching and learning biology is meant to be both practical (how do I do this?) and research based (almost all blog entries have a small reference list). You will find: Verktøykasse: A tool box with activities, learning resources, tips & tricks for...
Say hello to the new student representatives at UNIS
Ingvild Sørensen is a biology student in the last year of her bachelor at the University of Tromsø. Currently she is taking a semester at UNIS, and her field of interest is mainly arctic terrestrial ecology. Ingvild wants to be a part of bioCEED because she thinks it is important...
bioCEED offers a national teaching and learning course for all BIO departments in Norway
Collegial Teaching and Learning – in Biology Education as an elective course in teaching and learning for teachers in higher education. The course consists of two separate units corresponding to two plus one (three) weeks of full-time work. The language of instruction is Norwegian/Swedish or English. This time, the course...
Excellent Teaching Practitioner – 2018
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 October 1st, 2018. Evaluation of applications will take place...
The EU GDPR and the bioCEED newsletter
Dear readers, The European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) regulates the way businesses process and manage personal data. Effective as of 25 May 2018 and applicable to all businesses and organisations (e.g. hospitals, public administrations, etc.), it constitutes the biggest change to the EU’s data protection rules in over 20 years (original documents and info here)....
Join us in Bergen for ISSOTL18 – Toward a learning culture
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning invites you to join its 15th annual conference, which will be hosted in Bergen, Norway, from October 24 to 27, 2018. International scholars and educators will come together to share recent work and to discuss how our collective efforts will...
New bioCEED-paper: Working and Learning in a Field Excursion
This study aimed to discern sociocultural processes through which students learn in field excursions. To achieve this aim, short-term ethnographic techniques were employed to examine how undergraduate students work and enact knowledge (or knowing) during a specific field excursion in biology. The students participated in a working practice that employed...