The Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE) (http://infotech.scu.edu.au/~ACE2017/) is a conference on research and innovation in computing education in its various aspects, at all levels and in all contexts. Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to: • the use of technology in computing education; • course content; • curriculum structure;…
The Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE) (http://infotech.scu.edu.au/~ACE2017/) is a conference on research and innovation in computing education in its various aspects, at all levels and in all contexts. Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to: • the use of technology in computing education; • course content; • curriculum structure;…
If anyone who has early work or preliminary project results, and would like to explore this work with ICER, please consider submitting to the ICER Lightning Talks and Poster sessions: Want to give a lightning talk or present a poster in Melbourne, September 9-11, to spark discussion or discover possible collaborations? Keep reading! Deadline: Lightning Talk Application Deadline: June…
Apologies for the delay in writing this, but I wanted to share some of my experiences from attending the first CS Education Research Dagstuhl on Assessing Learning in Introductory Computer Science. The Dagstuhl was an interesting combination of invited talks, and semi-structured workshop sessions, providing opportunity for us to actually work on developing new ideas…
Our final sessions for LAK began with a session on Supporting Learning and Achievement, starting with a discussion on how we can help learners frame their learning experiences to achieve greater success. This first presentation described two studies, one explored a range of NLP-based analyses to try to identify clusters of learners that behaved in…
We start the next session with a presentation from some Australian researchers, on their OLT-funded project on how (tertiary) teachers can use learning analytics, ie given all of the data that we can collect, what would be meaningful for teachers, and when would they want to use it. They talked about the outcomes that teachers…
Unfortunately I had to skip the first day of LAK due to some other work commitments, but I’m back today and looking forward to the discussions. The first talk in today’s session on personalisation discusses a dashboard used in a flipped first year engineering course, where a dashboard was provided to the students to help…
The last sessions of Learning@Scale were flipped conference presentations, an experimental conference model where we had different approaches from each presenter. This extends the experimentation at this conference in flipping materials. Presenters of sort and long papers were invited to flip their presentations, by preparing a short EdX course for their paper, containing videos that…
Sugata Mitra presented the first keynote for the conference, providing an overview of his work in equity in education, starting with his hole in the wall project in India, and the ability for learners to create their own opportunities for learning if given the right resources -‘the absence of the teacher as pedagogical tool’. How…
I’ve been involved in some conversations recently about the upcoming Latice 2017 conference, which I have found both personally painful and thought provoking. Latice 2017 will be held in Saudi Arabia, with a partial motivation at least of making the Computer Science Education Research community more accessible to the large number of female academics in…
Geza Kovacs presents an analysis of how in-video quizzes effect video engagement in MOOCS, identifying that students tend to watch further when videos contain quizzes, and also that they have a higher seek time when videos contain quizzes. Interestingly, seek behaviour is clustered around the quiz, and does not cross quiz boundaries, implying that students…
I wanted to gather some of my thoughts here on some of the interesting observations from the conference – they’ll be quite unconnected, but I hope interesting! Justin Reich talked about how learners engage in political MOOCS, particularly looking at how groups of learners with different political leanings might engage with each other. While the…
I am in Edinburgh at the moment, along with others from the CSER team, attending the Learning @ Scale conference, followed by the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference. I’ve been looking forward to these two conferences, as much of our recent work in the CSER group has been looking at how online learning can be…
Koli Calling (http://www.kolicalling.fi/) is one of the leading international conferences dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning and to education research in the computing disciplines. Koli Calling aims to publish high quality papers that combine teaching and learning experiences with solid, theoretically anchored research. The conference is held annually at the Hotel Koli, about…
I’m sure we are all busy right now preparing our final submissions for the upcoming ICER Conference – the Twelfth annual ACM International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference, to be held in September in Melbourne! Worth noting also is the Doctoral Consortium that will be held as part of ICER. The CFP has just been…
Katrina Falkner 