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Seminar Programme

Seminars for 2007

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
Friday, 14 Dec 2007, 1500-1600	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus	Dr Arnold Pears	Methods and Approaches to Computing Education Research
Monday 10 Dec 2007, 1430-1530	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus	Dr John Hamer	PeerWise and Contributing Student Pedagogy
Friday, 2 Nov 2007, 1400-1500	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus	Assoc. Professor Judy Kay	Teaching Programming, right across the span from beginners to the capstone projects
Friday, 5 Oct 2007, 1100-1230	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus	Dr Sandrine Balbo	A Community Based Self-Learning Environment (SPECLAD Web Page)
Friday, 4 May 2007, 1430-1600	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus	Assoc. Professor John Hurst and Dr Selby Markham	Preaching the Teaching: Do the Politics & Religion of teaching mix?
23 Mar 2007, 1215-1330	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield campus	Martin Atchison	A second tech wreck? IT education in Victorian universities More details...

About the Last Seminar

Presenter	Dr Arnold Pears
Date	Friday, 14 December 2007
Time	3:00 -4:00pm
Location	Room H7.84, Building H, Level 7, Caulfield Campus
Title	Methods and Approaches to Computing Education Research
Abstract	The talk presents a general framework for conducting CER studies and presents a view of the key aspects of a rigorous (pragmatic) study. We discuss the implications of the framework for both designing studies as well as judging published work.
Biography	Arnold Pears received his BSc and PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Pears was a senior lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, from 1991 to 1998 moving to Uppsala University, Sweden to take a position there as Senior Lecturer in1999, where he has remained. Dr Pears has a strong interest in teaching and learning research in computer science and engineering. He is widely published in the area, and is well known as a computing education researcher internationally within the ACM, and IEEE. In addition to his role as a Director of CeTUSS (The Swedish National Center for Pedagogical Development of Technology Education in a Societal and Student Oriented Context, www.cetuss.se) he is a regular reviewer for Computer Science Education Journal, the ACM SIGCSE and ITiCSE conferences, and has been a technical programme committee member for the International Computer Science Education Conference (Koli Calling) since 2005. Dr Pears is Poster Coordinator for ACMITiCSE 2008 and Programme Chair for Koli Calling 2008.
Web Page	http://www.it.uu.se/katalog/arnoldp

Other Events

4th Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle: Friday, 16 November 2007 at The Richard Searby Room, Burwood Campus, Deakin University.

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