Congratulations to Ashar Izhar, Daniel Hinbest, Dev Thaker, and Mirisan Ravindran who all successfully presented their Computer Science honours theses last Thursday! 🎓 A further congratulations to Ashar who’s thesis was nominated for the Ontario Tech Computer Science Outstanding Thesis Award.
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SEER Lab Presentation at the 2025 Digital Innovation Education Conference
Last Friday, Stacey Koornneef presented at the 2025 Digital Innovation in Education Conference on “Lessons Learned: How to Design & Evaluate Cost-Accessible Coding Games for Children.”
Testing Education Research Presented at SIGCSE 2025
Today Prof. Michael Miljanovic presented the latest SEER Lab paper at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2025). The paper titled “How Effective and Efficient Are Student-Written Software Tests?”, is co-authored by Amanda Showler, Michael Miljanovic, and Jeremy Bradbury. This paper aims to better understand gaps in students’ testing skills and knowledge.Continue reading “Testing Education Research Presented at SIGCSE 2025”
SEER Lab at SIGCSE 2025!
SEER Lab’s Stacey Koornneef and Prof. Michael Miljanovic are in Pittsburgh, PA this week attending the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2025). Michael Miljanovic will be presenting the latest lab paper titled “How Effective and Efficient Are Student-Written Software Tests?” (co-authored by Amanda Showler, Michael Miljanovic, and Jeremy Bradbury). Stacey Koornneef willContinue reading “SEER Lab at SIGCSE 2025!”
Computational Thinking Education Research Presented at CAN-CWIC 2024
SEER Lab PhD student Stacey Koornneef presenting her talk titled “Designing and Evaluating a Cost-Accessible Computational Thinking Educational Game for K-5 Students” at the Canadian Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWIC 2024)!
Successful Partnership with Ontario Tech University Summer Camps
A big thank you to the Ontario Tech University Summer Camps for partnering with the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab (SEER Lab) and supporting our research study on the benefits of tangible and hybrid (tangible + digital) educational games in learning computational thinking with K-5 students.
Successful CSER 2024 Spring Meeting
SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury, Stacey Koornneef and Riddhi More were in Kingston, ON at Queen’s University on June 10th & 11th for the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2024 Spring Meeting. In total 140 participants attending the CSER 2024 Spring Meeting from universities and industry across Canada. 🇨🇦
Stacey Koornneef Successfully Defends MSc Thesis
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Stacey Koornneef who successfully defended and submitted her MSc thesis today. Stacey’s thesis is titled “Run, Llama, Run: An Educational Coding Game for Assessing Tangible and Hybrid Interfaces” and was co-supervised by Jeremy Bradbury and Michael Miljanovic.
Japnit Ahuja Wins Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award for Women in ICT
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Japnit Ahuja for winning the 2023 Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award For Women In ICT, a WomenTech Network global award. The award is in recognition of her efforts in founding the Go Girl Organisation which provides free coding workshops to underprivileged girls.
New Book Chapter – Engineering Adaptive Serious Games Using Machine Learning
The “Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts: Theories, Methods, Tools, and Experiences” book is now out! If you have the opportunity to read it there is a chapter co-authored by SEER Lab’s Michael Miljanovic and Jeremy Bradbury on “Engineering Adaptive Serious Games Using Machine Learning.”