Computer Science Education
The research group in Computer Science Education was established to disseminate teaching experiences and support the development of new courses. Our main goal is to study and support the teaching and learning of computer science subjects (problem solving, modelling and software development).
The group has good international contacts and participates regularily in the organisation of workshops and conferences in the area.
Since 2007, we have an official PhD programme (forskarutbidlningsplan) in Computer Science Education. More information can be found at the Doctoral Studies pages of the Faculty of Science and Technology.
NEWS
- Jürgen is Working Group Co-Chair at ITiCSE'11 in Darmstadt, Germany
- Jürgen co-chairs a working group (WG5) at ITiCSE'10 (Ankara, Jun 26-30, 2010)
- At OOPSLA'09 (Orlando, FL, USA, Oct 25-29, 2009), we are co-organizing the workshop Worked Examples for Sound OO Pedagogy
- At BCI'09 (Thessaloniki, Greece, Sept 17-19), we are co-organizing the workshop Training and Supporting Engineers of Embedded Systems
- Marie defended her Licentiate thesis on March 11. Title: He[d]uristics - Heuristics for designing object oriented examples for novices. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
- Jürgen co-chairs a working group at ITiCSE'09 (Paris, Jul 3-8, 2009)
- Jürgen will give an invited talk at the Dagstuhl Workshop The Intro Programming Course (Apr 5-9, 2009)
- We are in the Programme Committee for the Educators' and Trainers' Symposium at OOPSLA'09.
- Jan Erik and Jürgen have been appointed Information Co-Directors for ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
- UMSER has been proclaimed a development area for the new Umeå School of Education
- At OOPSLA'08 (Nashville, TN, USA, Oct 19-23, 2008), we are co-organizing the Worked Examples for Sound OO Pedagogy
- Jan Erik is International Liaison for SIGCSE'09 (Chattanooga, TN, USA, Mar 4-7, 2009)
- At ECOOP´08 (Paphos, Cyprus, July 7th - 11th 2008), we are co-organizing the Twelfth Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for the Teaching and Learning of Object Oriented Concepts
- At ICSE'08 (Leipzig, Germany, May 10-18, 2008), we are in the program committee for the Software Engineering Education track
- Jürgen had a keynote at INFOS 2007 (Siegen, Germany, Sept 19-21, 2007)
Links to projects and further information
- CS Education Resources
- Embed4Auto project
- The group co-founded and regularly co-organises a workshop series on Pedagogies and Tools for the Teaching and Learning of Object Oriented Concepts which is usually co-located with ECOOP, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming).
- Links to Workshops on OO Education
- We are a founding member of SPoP, the Scandinavian Pedagogy of Programming Network
- Stepping Stones project
- UFM, Umeå Research Centre for Mathematics Education
- UMSER, Umeå University Science and Technology Education Research
- Home page of SIGCSE, ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
- Our local PSP pages
- A tool to support Computer Architecture teaching and learning
Members of the group
- Jürgen Börstler (Assoc. Prof.)
- Johan Eliasson (Lecturer)
- Pedher Johansson (Research Engineer)
- Lena Kallin Westin (Ass. Prof.)
- Jan Erik Moström (Ph.D. student)
- Marie Nordström (Ph.D. student)
Further publications by Jan Erik Moström can be here.
