Excited Seminar Week on Research in IT Education 2022

Photo: Kai T. Dragland/NTNU

Excited SFU welcomes you to a week of seminars for learning more about research in IT education and sharing your experiences! It is possible to sign up for single days without participating the whole week.

When: Mon 30 May – Fri 3 June 2022
Time: Mon-Thu 9:00-15:00, writing session 15:00-16:00; Fri 9:00-13:00, writing session 13:00-15:00
Where: NTNU Gløshaugen, Trondheim, IT Building, room 454

The target group for the seminar is teaching staff and PhD candidates at NTNU and Nord University.

The seminar will cover hot topics in IT education research, combining state-of-the art theory with a practical perspective and the opportunity to exchange experiences with colleagues and experts. All the seminar days will include a combination of expert presentations and hands-on group work. The seminar will also offer opportunities to reflect on and discuss your own pedagogical practice and development work, e.g., in the context of plans for further qualification.

The overall program is as follows:

Mon 30 May, Integrating sustainability in IT education
Frameworks and methodologies for integrating sustainability into computing education, especially user centered design and software engineering 

Tue 31 May, Learning outcomes and structure
Competence development, expected learning outcomes, soft skills, concept inventories

Wed 1 June, Learning activities and assessment in IT education
Student active learning, assessment from the perspective of constructive alignment

Thu 2 June, Tools for IT education
Tools for e-exams, classification of learning technology, game-based learning 

Fri 3 June, Succeeding with educational research in own teaching
Ethical challenges, publishing venues for computing education research

• All seminar days will be based on active student participation (e.g. group discussions, hands-on exercises)
• Relevant research methodologies will be addressed throughout the week, with reference to examples in the syllabus research papers. 
• There will be a writing session at the end of each seminar day, providing an opportunity to work on your own education-related research.

Lunch is included. On Thursday 2 June at 19:00 there will be a dinner for all seminar participants at the restaurant Frati, Kongens gate 20, 7011 Trondheim, www.frati.no.

It is possible to participate in one or more seminar days. However, we ask that you participate for whole days, including the practical activities. For those participating the whole week, we will provide an informal letter of confirmation of attendance. 

We encourage our colleagues from other campuses/institutions to make a trip to Trondheim for on-site participation on one or more of the seminar days!

The seminar is a mandatory part of NTNU’s PhD level course IT8007 (7.5 stp). For PhD Candidates at NTNU who consider signing up for the PhD course IT8007, please have a look at the course description and remember the deadline for course registration: 15 February 2022.

We hope many of you are interested and will join the Excited seminar week!

*Pre-defined groups, same groups all day.

Reading list:

IT8007 Syllabus

Krogstie, Birgit, og John Krogstie. «Introducing sustainability in IT education: The case of a course in user-centered design». IEEE, 2020.

Penzenstadler, Birgit, Stefanie Betz, Colin C. Venters, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Jari Porras, Norbert Seyff, Leticia Duboc, og Christoph Becker. «Everything is INTERRELATED: Teaching Software Engineering for Sustainability». Gothenburg, Sweden: ACM, 2018.

Verdecchia, Roberto, Patricia Lago, Christof Ebert, og Carol de Vries. «Green IT and Green Software». IEEE Software November/December 2021 (2021).

Other recommended reading

Giangrande, Naresh, Rehema M. White, May East, Ross Jackson, Tim Clarke, Michel Saloff Coste, og Gil Penha-Lopes. «A Competency Framework to Assess and Activate Education for Sustainable Development: Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals 4.7 Challenge». Sustainability 11 (17. mai 2019).

Gifford, Robert. «The Dragons of Inaction. Psychological Barriers That Limit Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption». American Psychologist 66, nr. 4 (juni 2011).

Penzenstadler, Birgit, Stefanie Betz, Colin C. Venters, Christoph Becker, og et al. «Blueprint and Evaluation Instruments for a Course on Software Engineering for Sustainability», februar 2018.

Porras, Jari, Victoria Palacin, Olaf Drögehorn, og Birgit Penzenstadler. «Developing a model for evaluation of sustainability perspectives and effects in ICT projects», 2017.

Reading list:

Stephen Frezza, Mats Daniels, Arnold Pears, Åsa Cajander, Viggo Kann, Amanpreet Kapoor, Roger McDermott, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Mihaela Sabin, and Charles Wallace. "Modelling Competencies for Computing Education beyond 2020: A Research Based Approach to Defining Competencies in the Computing Disciplines". In ITiCSE 2018 Companion: Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3293881.3295782

Guttorm Sindre, Michail Giannakos, Birgit R. Krogstie, Robin Munkvold, and Trond Aalberg. "Project-Based Learning in IT Education: Definitions and Qualities". In Uniped, Vol.41, Iss.2, June 2018, pp 147 - 163, June 2018. https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN1893-8981-2018-02-06

Leo Porter, Daniel Zingaro, Soohyun Nam Liao, Cynthia Taylor, Kevin C. Webb, Cynthia Lee, and Michael Clancy. "BDSI: A Validated Concept Inventory for Basic Data Structures". In ICER '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3291279.3339404

Optional reading:

Diane Strode, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Yngve Lindsjørn. " A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development". In Empirical Software Engineering (2022) 27: 56 pp. 1-50, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-10115-0

Reading list:

Guttorm Sindre, Michail Giannakos, Birgit R. Krogstie, Robin Munkvold, and Trond Aalberg. "Project-Based Learning in IT Education: Definitions and Qualities". In Uniped, Vol.41, Iss.2, June 2018, pp 147 - 163, June 2018. https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN1893-8981-2018-02-06

Indriasari, T.D., Luxton-Reilly, A. & Denny, P. A, (2020). Review of Peer Code Review in Higher Education. ACM Transaction Computer Education, 20(3) (25 pages)  

Cain, Andrew (2013). Chapter 4: A Model for Constructive Alignment of Introductory Programming, in Constructive Alignment for Introductory Programming – Phd thesis. (38 pages)

Reading list:

What learning tools for IT education? An introduction

Supporting articles:

Already in the General Reading List. Luxton-Reilly, A. et al. (2018) ‘Introductory programming: a systematic literature review’, in Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ITiCSE 2018 Companion), pp. 55–106. doi: 10.1145/3293881.3295779. (6.4)

Additional suggested reading:

McGill, M.M. and Decker, A. (2020) ‘Construction of a Taxonomy for Tools, Languages, and Environments across Computing Education’, in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ICER ’20), pp. 124–135. doi:10.1145/3372782.3406258.

E-exams – Supporting tools and challenges

Supporting articles:

Sindre, G. (2020, October). Code Writing vs Code Completion Puzzles: Analyzing Questions in an E-exam. In 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Additional suggested reading:

Ericson, B. J., Foley, J. D., & Rick, J. (2018, August). Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of adaptive parsons problems. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (pp. 60-68).

Games in computing education

Supporting articles:

Johnson, C. et al. (2016) ‘Game Development for Computer Science Education’, in Proceedings of the 2016 ITiCSE Working Group Reports. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ITiCSE ’16), pp. 23–44. doi:10.1145/3024906.3024908. (no Section 4. Case Studies since this is mainly focusing on pre-university games)

Additional suggested reading:

will be provided during the course.

Recommended reading:

Mark Guzdial (2015). Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.