CS-Ed Lunch Seminar

Below I have listed quite a few possible topics that we could address in our seminar and a few examples papers (not necessarily the canonical paper in the area).

Educational Technology:

• Classroom Technology
  • G. D. Abowd. Classroom 2000: An Experiment with the instrumentation of a living educational environment. Pervasive Computing. Volume 38, Number 4, 1999.
  • Tan Minh Truong, William G. Griswold, Matthew Ratto, and Susan Leigh Star. The ActiveClass Project: Experiments in Encouraging Classroom Participation. UCSD CSE Technical Report #CS2002-0715.
• Classroom management tools
  • Toolkit (UVA),  Catalyst (UW)
  • Web-CT, Blackboard,
• Online Education
• Distance Learning
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Tutoring Answer Explanation Fosters Learning with Understanding by V. Aleven, et al.
• Virtual Office Hours / Teleconsulting
• Grading/Assessment Tools
• Virtual Labs / Quiz Sections

Teaching techniques that have been used in CS:

• Labs
• Group work, forming groups
• Active Learning
  • Active and Cooperative Learning by Jeffrey McConnell
• CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques)
• Learning Styles
  • Learning Styles and Performance in the Introductory Programming Sequence by Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, and John Woodbury

CS-Specific Teaching techniques:

• Java IDEs for CS1
• Pair Programming/Extreme Programming
  • The Effects of Pair-Programming on Performance in an Introductory Programming Course by Charlie McDowell, Linda Werner, Heather Bullock, and Julian Fernald
• Rewrite Cycles in CS
  • Rewrite cycles in CS Courses: Experience reports by Max Hailperin, Linda Null, Mike Ciaraldi, Liz Adams, and Ursula Wolz
• Algorithm Animations
  • Evaluating animations as student aids in learning algorithms by Byrne et al and Rethinking the evaluation of algorithm animations as learning aids: an observational study by Kehoe et al.

Different Approaches to Teaching Particular CS Topics:

• CS0/CS1/CS2
  • Accommodating a variety of backgrounds
  • Attracting students to CS
    • A Survey of student dropout rates and dropout causes...Hellenic Open University, 39 (2002) 361-377 (PDF)
  • Gender and diversity issues
    •  Defensive Climate in the Computer Science Classroom by Lecia Jane Barker, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and Michele Jackson
    • "Thin Ice: 'Stereotype Threat' and Black College Students" (Steele, 1999), "Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College" (Treisman, 1992);
• Data Structures
• SW Design
• Testing
• Ethics in CS
• SW Engineering
• OO programming
• Architecture/OS/Systems integration

CS Ed Research:

• Mats Daniels and Anders Berglund. "Building a Rigorous Research Agenda into Changes to Teaching." ACSE 1998.

Places to find interesting papers:

• CCSC, Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges ( ACM DL)
  • CCSC-NW 2003 - Central Washington University, Ellensburg, 03-04 Oct 2003
  • CCSC-NW 2002 - SPU, Seattle, 04-05 Oct 2002
• CSCL, Computer Support for Collaborative Learning
  • CSCL 2003 - Bergen, Norway, 14-18 Jun 2003
  • CSCL 2002 - Boulder, CO, 07-11 Jan 2002 ( conf. web)
  • EuroCSCL 2001 - Maastricht, Netherlands ( conf. web)
  • CSCL 1999 - Stanford ( conf. web)
  • CSCL 1997 - Toronto, Ontario ( conf. web)
• CSEE&T 2004, 17th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Norfolk, Virginia (USA), March 1-3, 2004. (Tom Horton is chair of this conference)
• ESP, Empirical Studies of Programmers workshop
• FIE, Frontiers in Education - engineering focus; includes active, collaborative learning discussion (ASEE, IEEE)
  • FIE 2004, Savannah, GA, 20-23 Oct 2004
  • FIE 2003, CU-Boulder, CO, 05-08 Nov 2003
  • FIE 2002, Worcester Polytech, Boston, MA, 06-09 Nov 2002
  • FIE 2001, Reno, NV, 10-13 Oct 2001
  • FIE 2000, Kansas City, MO, 18-31 Oct 2000
• ITiCSE, Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education ( ACM DL)
  • ITiCSE 2003 - U. of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, 30 Jun - 02 Jul 2003
  • ITiCSE 2001 - Canterbury, UK, 25-27 Jun 2001
  • ITiCSE 2000 - Helsinki, Finald, 11-13 Jul 2000
• OOPSLA 2002 Educator's Symposium, OO Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications - Seattle, 04-08 Nov 2002
• SIGCSE, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education ( ACM DL)
  • SIGCSE 2004 - Norfolk, VA, 03-07 Mar 2004
  • SIGCSE 2003 - Reno, NV, 19-23 Feb 2003
  • SIGCSE 2002 (No. KY)

Ed-Tech-related:

• CHI, Computer-Human Interaction ( ACM DL)
  • CHI 2003 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 05-10 Apr 2003
  • CHI 2002 - Minneapolis, MN, 20-25 Apr 2002
• CSCW, Computer Supported Cooperative Work ( ACM DL)
  • CSCW 2002 - New Orleans, LA, 16-20 Nov 2002