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Dark season blues goes well with coffee, buns, and a crackling fire
The arctic winter is approaching our little community and will soon fully embrace the daily life of the students. To break up the moody vibes a bit, the bioCEED student representatives Christina and Daniela at UNIS organized the traditional unisBREAKFAST. Once again students at the University Center in Svalbard UNIS...
New article from the ArtsApp project
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,...
Delicious science and interesting buns … no wait (first unisBREAKFAST September 2020)
The world seems a bit confusing lately. You have not noticed? Well, the student representatives surely did when planning for this semester’s first breakfast event to happen. Will we be able to serve food? Is the room big enough? WHO is actually still up here and able to give us...
bioCEEDsters: Seth Thompson
Hi! My name is Seth Thompson and I’ve been collaborating on the ExcelAQUA project with Ivar Rønnestad and others. I first joined the project as a graduate student in Dr. Sehoya Cotner’s lab group at the University of Minnesota and have primarily been involved with supporting the summer school program....
New Act relating to universities and university colleges in progress
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education and Research invited comments on the Official Norwegian Report with a proposal for a new Act relating to universities and university colleges (NOU 2020:3). The work has been led by the Aune committee and the aim has been to review and assess the...
Annual report 2019
The first of March it was yet again time to submit the Annual report. Writing up a summary of this year’s activities is a challenging and rewarding process. A chance to remind ourselves of our progress – and some failures, and assure that our activies and future plans align with...
Using 3D-printed models of pollen grains as teaching material
Identifying pollen grains under the microscope may be challenging, especially to the untrained eye. This goes also for a multitude of biological structures with complex shapes, whether embedded in tissues or isolated from their original environment. The course BIO250 – Palaeoecology at the Department of Biological Sciences in Bergen has...
bioCEEDsters: Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen
My name is Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen and I am the new Ph.D. scholar at bioCEED in Bergen. As an educational researcher, one might think that being surrounded by biologists all day long poses a lot of challenges, but admittedly it is not that bad (at least not so far!). And...
Recommanded article on students’ (mis)perception of learning in active classes.
Louis Deslauriers and colleagues recently published “Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom” in PNAS. Significance Despite active learning being recognized as a superior method of instruction in the classroom, a major recent survey found that most college STEM instructors still...
Two university teachers awarded Excellent Teaching Practitioner status at the University of Bergen
Earlier this month UiB announced that Christian Jørgensen from the Department of Biological Sciences at UiB and Pernille Bronken Eidesen from the Arctic Biology Department at UNIS were awarded Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) status. A total of 11 applicants applied in the second call for application to the Pedagogical Academy...
Olav Thon Award Ceremony 2019
On March 7th, the Olav Thon Foundation award winners of 2019 attended a formal ceremony at the Aula, the festive hall of the University of Oslo. bioCEEDsters Pernille B. Eidesen, Oddfrid Førland and Vigdis Vandvik, along with former student representative Ragnhild Gya were on stage to receive their awards from...
bioCEEDsters – on the inside of bioCEED
My name is Tina and I am working as a teaching adviser for bioCEED at the Department of Arctic Biology at UNIS in Longyearbyen. Working as a teaching adviser is an exciting job with a variety of tasks every day. My main responsibility is to organize bioCEED activities at the...
Live episode of NOKUT-podden with Oddfrid Førland
Don’t miss NOKUT-podden, the podcast on higher education produced by NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education. The latest episode of NOKUT-podden was broadcasted live from the NOKUT conference 2019 on January 31st. This time, the topic was: “What makes universities and university colleges such magic places?” and...
Developing Educational Excellence In Higher Education
NOKUT has just released DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Lessons learned from the establishment and evaluation of the Norwegian Centres for Excellence in Education (SFU) initiative. This publication is a collection of reflections on developing educational excellence in higher education, written by six experts in the field of higher education (see further below). “This publication is...
Read about bioCEED’s activities in the last SFU magazine.
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...
Say hello to Marius, our new bioCEEDster!
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...
bioCEED survey 2018 is now out
bioCEED is conducting a new survey on teaching and learning in biology. All major universities and university colleges in Norway with biology programs were invited to participate, and the survey is now out. This time the recipients are teachers and students. If you have received this survey, we hope you...
PhD Defense Lucas Jeno – Motivation as a prerequisite for learning
Friday, February 16, 2018 is a big day for bioCEED, and especially for Lucas Jeno who will defend his PhD degree at the University of Bergen with the dissertation: “The antecedents and consequences of students’ autonomous motivation. The relation between need-support, motivation, and academic achievement». We congratulate Lucas with an...