Computing Education Group
All members with interests in this area are active practitioners within
the mainstream of the CS curriculum, although we distinguish
disciplinary-specific research from scholarly examination of
practice. We aim to:
- adopt a questioning attitude towards fundamental
issues in the practice of our discipline.
- take an evolutionary approach to our practice,
informed by the results of research.
- act as a focal resource for
discussion and dissemination of best practice and new
ideas.
- provide a beacon for research based upon Kent
tools, such as BlueJ and Greenfoot.
- pro-actively collaborate with international
colleagues.
Recent Activities:
Members of the group are pursuing a variety of activities...
- The group hosted the HEA-ICS 10th annual conference
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The group hosted the
ICER'06
conference.
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A major project has been collaboratively writing the book
Studying Programming. This is an
introduction to the terminology, techniques and culture of
programming, as it might be experienced in a range of different
courses in further and higher education.
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We are involved with organizing the programmes for the annual HEA-ICS
1-day teaching of programming conferences - the
9th event was held in Bath on 6th April 2009.
- We are actively involved with the SIGCSE and ITiCSE
conferences - the group hosted the
ITiCSE 2001
conference and members have been involved in programme committees
of other ITiCSE conferences. The head of the research group is a keynote speaker for the 2009 conference.
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Current projects:
Projects of the research group (see the list on the left for more).
A full list of research group projects can be found here.
Interested in postgraduate study?
We are actively recruiting new PhD and MSc research students to these research projects and others.
People:
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Dermott
Shinners-Kennedy |
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Research support:
Research in the group is supported by the following organisations:
