
Group Leader
Mats Daniels
PhD, Professor
Research Interests
- Learning in international open ended group project settings
- How to promote and assess students development of professional competencies
- Quality assessment of educational programs
Senior Researchers
Anders Berglund
, PhD
Research Interests
- How students learn computer science
- Methodological rigour, particularly in qualitative research approaches
- How computing is understood by students in various social and cultural contexts
- Improve teaching of computing to diversified student cohorts
Åsa Cajander
PhD, Professor
Research Interests
- How to assess professional competences
- Coaching as a learning strategy
- Students generated learning material
- Action Research as a methodological framework
Anna Eckerdal
PhD, Associate Professor
- How students learn computer programming
- The role of hands-on in learning to program
- The relationship between learning theory and learning practice in the lab
- Threshold concepts in Computer Science
- What students know about software design, and how they learn it
Lars-Åke Nordén
PhD
- Computer Science and Computational Thinking in K-12 education
- Self-efficacy in CS among Teachers
Aletta Nylén
PhD
- Development of professional competence
- Communication in computer science education
- Young learners' formal and informal computing education
- MOOCs in computing education
Arnold Pears
PhD, Professor
Research Interests
- Theories of knowledge construction in Computing
- Research driven curriculum design and educational practice
- Wireless and pervasive systems to support learning of Computing
Anne-Kathrin Peters
PhD
- Diversity and equity in computing
- Social identity theory
- Competence and competence development in computing education
- Education for sustainability
PhD Students
Virginia Grande
Research Interests
- Role models
- Inclusive teaching
- Identity
- Gender and diversity in computing education
- Professional competencies
Academic Sites
Kristina von Hausswolff
Research Interests
- How students learn computer programming
- Learning through practice in the CS lab
- Pragmatic perspective on teaching and learning
Tina Vrieler
Research Interests
- Understanding children's motivation, interest development and aspirations in computer science (CS)
- Out-of-school/informal learning of CS
- Science Identity
- Digital and Science Capital
- Research methodologies