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.
Category Archives: CS Education
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.”
Welcome to Mitacs Globalink Research Interns
We’re happy to welcome two new Mitacs Globalink research interns to the lab — Sylvain Rocchia from Grenoble INP and Alex Baxter from the University of Edinburgh. Sylvain and Alex will be spending their internship as members of the SEER Lab working on the development of an educational game for learning software testing.
Inclusive and Experiential Pedagogies for Undergraduate Mathematics and Computer Science
This interactive and multi-modal e-course (https://www.thinkmath.ca/e-courses/experiential/#/) is designed to help instructors of university mathematics and computer science enhance and apply skills for leveraging innovative and inclusive approaches to support experiential learning and student achievement. Specifically, the course examines the connections between engaging in computational modelling and experiential learning practices and lays a foundation for howContinue reading “Inclusive and Experiential Pedagogies for Undergraduate Mathematics and Computer Science”
SIGCSE 2023 Poster – “Run, Llama, Run: A Computational Thinking Game for K-5 Students Designed to Support Equitable Access”
Computational thinking is now included in K-5 classrooms and this has led to a demand for new interactive and collaborative learning tools that engage a younger audience. Block-based programming and educational games have both been shown to be effective at engaging children, however they have limitations with respect to supporting collaborative learning and equitable access.Continue reading “SIGCSE 2023 Poster – “Run, Llama, Run: A Computational Thinking Game for K-5 Students Designed to Support Equitable Access””
SIGCSE 2023 Poster – “Adapting Between Parsons Problems and Coding Tasks”
Parsons problems are an effective scaffolding activity for coding. The development of Adaptive Parsons problems has provided more flexible scaffolding for students learning to code. However, there is still a gap between Parsons problems and coding tasks which can both challenge and frustrate learners. If you interested in learning more about Nadia Goralski‘s MSc thesis researchContinue reading “SIGCSE 2023 Poster – “Adapting Between Parsons Problems and Coding Tasks””
SIGCSE 2023 Best Paper Award!
SEER Lab’s Software Education Lead, Michael Miljanovic won a Best Paper Award at the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2023) for the paper “Embedding and Scaling Writing Instruction Across First- and Second-Year Computer Science Courses” with co-authors Lisa Zhang, Bogdan Simion, Michael Kaler, Amna Liaqat, Daniel Dick, Andi Bergen and AndrewContinue reading “SIGCSE 2023 Best Paper Award!”