Open webinars 2022/2023
Open webinars 2022/2023
SFU Excited Open Webinar: Pedagogy of Tele-Proximity for eLearning:-Bridging the Distance with Social Physics
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join these open seminars for the teaching staff!
Centre for Excellent IT Education, Excited, aims at bringing Norway in the forefront of innovative IT education and making IT an increasingly more attractive study choice for young people. These webinars aim at creating arenas for discussions and reflection among the teaching staff. Each webinar includes a presentation and a Q&A session.
Language: English
Place: Zoom
The target audience are educators in Computer Science at the Department of
Computer Science, the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences (NTNU) and Nord
University.
Abstract: The presentation aims to address the key concept of pedagogy through the lenses of social physics. Social physics focuses on collective intelligence and behavioural insights. On the one hand, collective intelligence is about how groups of individuals collectively make decisions, solve problems, and generate knowledge. It studies the ways in which social interactions contribute to the emergence of collective intelligence. On the other hand, behavioural insights seek to provide insights into human behaviour that can be used to design better policies, interventions, and systems that promote positive outcomes for individuals and society. On this ground, Tele-Proximity as a pedagogical manifesto hopes to offer a different perspective on how we learn and teach. After all, to know who we are, we must understand how we are connected. More details can be found in Chryssa Themeli’s recently published book “Pedagogy of Tele-Proximity for eLearning:-Bridging the Distance with Social Physics”.
About the speaker: Chryssa Themeli is an educational researcher focusing on pedagogies that enhance learning and drive technological innovations. She currently works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, on European co-funded projects and professional training with immersive technologies (i-pear.eu). She blogs regularly at AACE review (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) and reviews papers at IRRODL and Ed-media conferences advancing open praxis, educational sciences and research.
SFU Excited seminar: Git and AI in Computer Science education
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join these open seminars for the teaching staff!
Centre for Excellent IT Education, Excited, aims at bringing Norway in the forefront of innovative IT education and making IT an increasingly more attractive study choice for young people. These seminars aim at creating arenas for discussions and reflection among the teaching staff. Each seminar includes a presentation and a Q&A session.
Seminar: Git and AI in Computer Science education
Date and time: Tue, 13 June 2023, 9:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: NTNU, Gløshaugen, Trondheim, IT building, room 454 and on Teams
The target audience are educators in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences (NTNU) and Nord University, in particular staff teaching programming and system development.
Program:
Git in education (09:00-11:30)
* GitLab and GitHub @ NTNU, status and plans
* Examples on the use of Git in education
* GitHub ClassRoom
* Code review / peer review of code
* Research and development
Lunch break (11:30-12:00; focaccia, juice, coffee and tea will be served)
AI and programming (12:00-14:00)
* Lab and discussions: use of GitHub Copilot and chat GPT to assess code
SFU Excited Webinar: Mob Programming
Topic: Mob Programming
When: Friday 16 June 2023, 10:00 – 11:00 CET
Where: Zoom (all registered participants will receive a link)
Target audience: Programming teachers in higher education
Language: English
Abstract: Steinar Line will present what Mob programming is and why/how they use mob programming in Kantega. There will be time for questions and a discussion about mob programming in higher education.
About speaker: Steinar Line is a department manager for business-critical system development in Kantega in Trondheim. Previously, Steinar worked as a lecturer at NTNU and he still has a burning interest in communication. In the first years at Kantega, he worked as a system developer with an ever-increasing recognition that good requirements work is what really gives the solutions value.
Contact person: Line Kolås, associate professor, Nord University, + 47 74 11 22 26, line.kolas@nord.no
SFU Excited Webinar: AI in programming education
Date and time: Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 10:00-11:00 CET
Language: English
Place: Zoom
Program:
• Welcome by Line Kolås, Nord University
• Intro to ChatGPT and Bing in programming courses: Simon McCallum, NTNU
• Intro to GitHub CoPilot in programming courses: Arne Styve, NTNU
• Discussion
Contact person: Line Kolås, associate professor, Nord University, + 47 74 11 22 26, line.kolas@nord.no
SFU Excited Seminar for innovative educators in Computer Science
Date and time: Thursday, 11 May 2023, 13:00-15:00 CET
Language: English
Place: NTNU Gløshaugen, IT building, room 454 (with coffee and waffles) and Teams
Target audience: educators in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences (NTNU) and Nord University.
This seminar is designed for educators who want to document their educational innovation in form of a paper. The seminar will discuss why it is important to share experiences about teaching, which venues are available, how to structure a paper about teaching. During the seminar we will analyse some examples and will discuss relevant cases and experiences. Participants will work actively on writing the abstract and the paper structure of their next paper!! But do not get scared…no preparation is required.
SFU Excited's open seminar with Hallvard Trætteberg on Tue. 25 April 2023 at 14:00 CET (hybrid)
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join this open seminar from the SFU Excited Spring 2023 seminar series for the teaching staff!
Date and time: Tuesday, 25 April, 14:00-15:00 CET
Language: English
Place: NTNU Gløshaugen, IT building, room 454 (with coffee and waffles) and Zoom
The main audience will be the academic personnel from NTNU and Nord University involved in teaching, IT education and related research. At the beginning, there will be a short introduction, the main slot will be for the presentation on the topic below, and after that there will be time for questions from the audience.
About the speaker: Siv.ing from NTNU, Department of Computer Science (1986-1991), PhD from NTNU, Department of Computer Science within model-based development of User Interface (1997-2002). Trætteberg has 20 years as associate professor (2002-2022). Currently he works as senior developer at the consulting company Kantega in Trondheim.
SFU Excited's open webinar with Valeria Borsotti on Fri. 21 April at 13:00 CET
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join this open seminar from the SFU Excited Spring 2023 seminar series for the teaching staff!
Title: Presentation of the paper “Humor and Stereotypes in Computing: An Equity-focused Approach to Institutional Accountability”, Valeria Borsotti & Pernille Bjørn, ECSCW Contribution, Published: 19 July 2022
Date and time: Friday, 21 April 2023, 13:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: Zoom
The main audience will be the academic personnel from NTNU and Nord University involved in teaching, IT education and related research. At the beginning, there will be a short introduction, the main slot will be for the presentation on the topic below, and after that there will be time for questions from the audience.
Paper abstract: We propose equity-focused institutional accountability as a set of principles to organize equity, inclusion, and diversity efforts in computer science organizations. Structural inequity and lack of representation of marginalized identities in computing are increasingly in focus in CSCW research – and research institutions as well as tech organizations are struggling to find ways to advance inclusion and create more equitable environments.
We study humor in a computer science organization to explore and decode how negative stereotypes create unnecessary and avoidable barriers to inclusion and counter efforts to creating a welcoming environment for all. We examine the humor embedded in sociomaterial artefacts, rituals, and traditions, and uncover the stereotyped narratives which are reproduced in formal and informal spaces. We argue that these stereotyped narratives both pose a risk of activating stereotype threat in members of marginalized groups, and of normalizing and reproducing ideas of who belongs in computer science.
We situate and discuss the complexity of institutional accountability in the context of a traditionally participatory and collegial model of governance. As a way forward we propose three principles for an equity-focused approach to accountability in computer science organizations: 1) Examine organizational traditions and spaces to critically evaluate challenges for inclusion; 2) Normalize critical reflection in the core practices of the organization; 3) Diversify and improve data collection.
About the speaker: Valeria Borsotti is a social anthropologist with fieldwork experience in the U.S., Mexico and Denmark. She is currently a PhD Fellow at the Computer Science department of the University of Copenhagen, Human Centred Computing section) She draws on ethnographic and design-based methods to study the role that social context plays in shaping people's interaction with digital technology - and how technological change shapes social patterns. Borsotti’s main fields of interest are: cross-cultural differences in computing education, gender normativity, social inclusion and computing, user experience research, and visual anthropology.
SFU Excited's open seminar with Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg on Fri. 5 August at 13:00 CET
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join this open seminar from the SFU Excited Autumn 2022 seminar series for the teaching staff!
Title: Classrooms analytics: zooming out from a pupil to a classroom
Date and time: Friday, 5 August 2022, 13:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: NTNU Gløshaugen, IT building, room 454 and Teams
The main audience will be the academic personnel from NTNU and Nord University involved in teaching, IT education and related research. At the beginning, there will be a short introduction, the main slot will be for the presentation on the topic below, and after that there will be time for questions from the audience.
Abstract: The term ‘learning analytics’ usually refers to the activities that one or a few learners perform on a digital device. How do technologies take into consideration the fact that a classroom counts many more learners? Classroom analytics provide teachers with real-time support about their class management, monitoring the engagement of learners in a class, deciding when and how to intervene in their learning activities, reusing the output of an activity in another one, forming student groups, integrating the learner’s production in a lecture, deciding when to shift to another activity or helping the teacher to regulate her own behavior. This talk describes the classroom itself as a digital system.
About the speaker: A former teacher in elementary school, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated in educational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. In 1986, he has been on of the first in the world to apply machine learning to develop a self-improving teaching system. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for education. He has been senior scientist at the University of Geneva.
Prof. Dillenbourg joined EPFL in 2002. He has been the director of Center for Research and Support on Learning and its Technologies, then academic director of Center for Digital Education, which implements the MOOC strategy of EPFL. He is full professor in learning technologies in the School of Computer & Communication Sciences, where he is the head of the CHILI Lab, Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction. He is the director of the leading house DUAL-T, which develops technologies for dual vocational education systems (carpenters, florists,...).
With EPFL colleagues, he launched in 2017 the Swiss EdTech Collider, an incubator with 80 start-ups in learning technologies. He (co-)-founded 5 start-ups, does consulting missions in the corporate world and joined the board of several companies or institutions. In 2018, he co-founded LEARN, the EPFL Center of Learning Sciences that brings together the local initiatives in educational innovation. He is a fellow of the International Society for Learning Sciences. He currently is the Associate Vice-President for Education at EPFL.
SFU Excited's open webinar with Elena Parmiggiani on Fri. 13 May at 13:00 CET
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join this open webinar from the SFU Excited Spring 2022 webinar series for the teaching staff!
Title: Sustainability in education: The way forward?
Date and time: Friday, 13 May, 13:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: Zoom
The main audience will be the academic personnel from NTNU and NORD University involved in teaching, IT education and related research. At the beginning, there will be a short introduction, the main slot will be for the presentation on the topic below, and after that there will be time for questions from the audience.
Abstract:
Sustainability is a multifaceted concept including social, economic, and environmental aspects. As a result of the threats associated with climate change and ongoing societal transformations, sustainability has become a core concern for universities, particularly in relation to education. This is evident in the top-down pressure from governments and policy makers to include sustainable development in organizations and in the bottom-up engagement of students and educators to take sustainability seriously.
NTNU is a frontrunner in opening up a discussion and developing strategies for including sustainability in the educational offer. In this presentation, core definitions of sustainability in relation to NTNU’s experience in including sustainability in education on the strategic level will be introduced. The webinar will conclude by discussing open challenges for the future.
About the speaker: Elena Parmiggiani is Associate Professor in Digital Collaboration at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where she is also deputy head of department for sustainability. She holds a PhD in Information Technology from NTNU. She studies digital transformation practices in organizations and responsible use of intelligent technologies. She has initiated and coordinated the Digital Enterprise research priority area at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (IE) at NTNU, which is concerned with sustainable digital transformation.
SFU Excited's open webinar with Prof. Michail Giannakos on Fri. 8 April at 13:00 CET
Curious about current issues, new tools and methods in IT education?
Join this open webinar from the SFU Excited Spring 2022 webinar series for the teaching staff!
Title: Analytics, assessment, and data literacy in IT education
Date and time: Friday, 8 April, 13:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: Zoom
The main audience will be the academic personnel from NTNU and NORD University involved in teaching, IT education and related research. At the beginning, there will be a short introduction, the main slot will be for the presentation on the topic below, and after that there will be time for questions from the audience.
Abstract: In this session, Prof. Michail Giannakos will share his experiences in how analytics can be used to support IT education. In particular, it will be discussed how analytics can support assessment practices, and courses' overall learning design. The final part of the discussion will be about the importance of instructors' educational data literacy skills, and the critical role such a set of skills can play.
About the speaker:
Michail (Michalis) Giannakos is a Professor of Interaction Design and Learning Technologies at the Department of Computer Science of NTNU, and Head of the Learner-Computer Interaction lab. His research focuses on the design and study of emerging technologies in online and hybrid education settings, and their connections to student and instructor experiences and practices. Giannakos has co-authored more than 150 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has served as an evaluator for the EC and the US-NSF. He has been serving in various organization committees, program committees as well as being editor and guest editor on highly recognized journals. He has worked at several research projects funded by diverse sources.
SFU Excited's open webinar with Prof. Dag Svanæs on Fri. 4 March at 13:00 CET
This webinar’s topic is: A maker approach to engineering education: a comparison of two courses
Date and time: Friday, 4 March, 13:00-14:00 CET
Language: English
Place: Zoom
About the speaker:
Dag Svanæs is professor in human–computer interaction at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He heads the NTNU User Experience Lab and holds a position at the IT-University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He did his PhD on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and its relevance to a theory of interactivity. His research interests include design tools, tangible interaction, participatory design, usability methods, medical informatics, and the philosophical foundations of interaction. His current research is focused on the role of the body in design.
Abstract: Dag will do a comparison of two courses using tools and techniques from the maker culture for first- and second-year engineering students. The first course is a one-semester introductory course for first-year computer science students where Arduino, robot programming and app development with Processing was used to foster engagement and creativity. The course had a total of 273 students with two teachers and ten teaching assistants. The second course is a one-semester course for second year industrial design students using Arduino, 3D-printing, laser cutters. It had 25 students, one teacher, two teaching assistants, and access to a wood and metal workshop. The major challenges for both courses were related to creating exercises, educational material and a physical work environment for the students that allowed for creativity in the spirit of the maker culture. Dag will reflect on how difference in number of students, access to wood and metal workshop, skills, and type of assignments give different results and learning outcome.
