Computer Science Education
Teaching
Schedule from TimeEdit. The schedule will be updated, but only minor changes are expected
When | What | Who | Comments/ Literature/ Assignments |
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Part 1. Introduction. | |||
12/9 | Course presentation. Introduction to Computer Science Education (CSEd) Research and Computer Science Didactics | Anders Berglund | Slides, F&P, Ben-David Kolikant, 2005, Karavirta, Korhonen, Malmi, 2005, |
21/9 | Classifying CSEd Research | Arnold Pears | Slides from 2006, for orientation only, F&P,Goldweber et al., Pears et al., Clancy et al. (only pp 336 - 341 are relevant) Simon classification 2007 Slides |
24/9 | Researching students' learning of computer science | Anders Berglund | Slides, F&P, Berglund, Daniels and Pears 2006,|Berglund and Eckerdal |
26/9 | Approaches to CER | Arnold Pears | Slides from 2006, for orientation only, F&P, Valentine |
3/10 | Lab. how do students understand 'object' and 'class'. Lab on phenomenography | Anders Berglund | |
10/10 | Lecture | Anders Berglund | Cancelled |
12/10 | Discussion seminars, learning computer science. What can we say? In what ways can we find out? What can we do? | UpCERG research team | Instructions and timings for the seminar are distributed by mail. Lister et al., Wiedenbeck, Ben-Ari, Berglund & Wiggberg |
Part 2. Hot topics in Computer Science Education. | |||
7/11 | Topic: Introductory programming. | Anna Eckerdal, Anders Berglund | powerpoint presentation |
14/11 | Topic: Statistical studies. | Judy Sheard | Sheard & Dick,Sheard, Markham & Dick |
19/11 | Topic: The CS teacher. Computer Science teachers as amateurs, students and researchers | Raymond Lister | the paper |
6/12 | Topic: Pedagogy. Teaching Computer Science | Anders Berglund | slides, Wu, Dell & Bethel, Lister, Berglund et al. |
7/12 | Topic: Gender Issues. Gender issues in CSEd | Lecia Barker | Paper distributed by mail |
Part 3. Projects | |||
Projects are selected individually or in small groups approx Nov 7. | Councelling on individual projects by UpCERG research team | ||
17/1 | Project discussions | UpCERG research team |