Success in Introductory Programming: What Works?
How pair programming, peer instruction, and media computation have improved computer science education.
Mark Guzdial
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What’s Our Goal For a CS Degree, and How Do We Know We Got There?
A history of computing suggests that the computer science undergraduate degree is unnecessarily rigorous and may not be achieving the goals we have for it.
Closing the Computing Labor Shortage with Computing in Schools
Getting more and better computing education into high schools is likely to have a big impact on computing careers.
Progress on Computing in Schools: 2 Countries, 2 States
Computing is making progress towards becoming a primary and secondary schools subject worldwide. I report on three personal meetings about activities in England and Denmark, and in South Carolina and Maryland.
Encouraging IT Usage in Future Healthcare; Quality in CS Education
Jeannette M. Wing considers how technology acts as a change agent for healthcare, while Mark Guzdial ponders ways to measure quality in computer science education.
Human-Centered Computing: A New Degree For Licklider's World
Combining computing and psychology, J.C.R. Licklider's prescient ideas are being applied in contemporary educational settings.
The Role of Hypercard in Today’s World
HyperCard is an end-user programming tool from the 1990's. A new version that runs on most modern platforms raises the question of the role of end-user programming and the directions in modern programming languages.
Securing the Future of Computer Science; Reconsidering Analog Computing
Mark Guzdial sees hope in computer science education efforts in the U.K. Daniel Reed suggests we should not be so quick to discard analog computing.
How to Build on Code.org in Higher Education
The Code.org videos are terrific. What can we be doing in post-secondary education to support the vision?
Research Questions About MOOCs
Predictions abound on the Internet that MOOCs are about to destroy the university. (Call it, "the MOOCopalypse.") From a stance informed by computing education research, what else would we like to know about MOOCs before we replace our current higher-education system with a MOOC-based one?
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