Projects in education science

The impact of teaching cruises in marine science education

Teaching cruises are a major attraction in marine science courses at UiT, included the oceanography course I lead. They provide a fantastic learning experience for the students, truly hands-on, student-active learning, and an opportunity to collect time series data as they tend to revisit the same region year after year. However, they are expensive and get heavy competition for ship time. In this study, we argue for their unique value in educating our marine science students, and that cruise-based fieldwork offers training in skill that are highly sought after by potential future employers. The manuscript is currently in revision, but here you can see a poster we presented at the EGU General Assembly 2020:

The evolution of assessments in my courses

As part of a course in teaching in higher education, I looked into my assessment practices. (Graded) Assessment is by far my least favourite part, however, it is crucial in student learning as it influence student motivation and learning strategy. At the link below you will find my reflections on assessment in my courses and how the latest attempt at "improving" the final assessment went. I will continue exploring better ways to do the final assessment, and writing this piece certainly brought up more questions I would like to delve into (any social scientist/education scientist/student in education science interested in collaborating???)

Alternative approaches to final written exams