Learning and Teaching in ICT at The University of Adelaide and across Australia
I am teaching a general research preparation course for Masters students across my (shiny new) University called RESE 5000 Foundations of Research. It s a four week course as part of a much larger sequence and covers research design, alternatives in research design, paradigms, quant/qual, and a lot of hands on work to develop a small [ ]
At Koli Calling 2024, which was many lifetimes ago in terms of my last 18 months, I was well ranting with Leo Leppänen and Juho Leinonen about the potential issues with the use of GenAI discussants in CS activities that use social constructivism, given the rapid adoption of Gen AI in chat/discursive situations. We [ ]
I ve just returned from a brief holiday on the Australian East Coast and I had a chance to think about what the new leadership role at the Uni will mean. One thing I felt I had to do, although it was honestly a tough decision to make, was tidy up the work/personal aspects of my [ ]
I sit at the desk in my new office on Level 5 of the building I ve been working in for over 10 years, as part of a different university and with a new job title. The foundation universities of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are now officially merged as Adelaide [ ]
ou can join A/Prof Claudia Szabo, me, Dr. Munienge Mbodila, and Prof Judy Sheard as we work to assess impact, analyse the effects on higher ed institutions, and identify the challenges, with a focus on the Global South.
Come and join us at the ITiCSE Working Group on developing research skills using a card-based approach!
Being a subset of interesting books from my collection, accompanied with explanatory texts of varying utility, as well as references to this blog. A very rapid summary in far too much detail. I recently had reason to distill my thoughts on why games, play, and the playing of games were a valid and even necessary [ ]
Our pedagogies are also rationed, limited by the physical space we can occupy, the technologies that we have, the staff who are available, and an overwhelming sense of dread that fills the spaces in June as many of us think "What next?"
I was at Koli Calling in 2016 and a paper was presented ( Replication in Computing Education Research: Researcher Attitudes and Experiences ) regarding the issue of replicating previous studies. Why replicate previous work? Because we have a larger number of known issues that have emerged in psychology and the medical sciences, where important work has not been able to be [ ]
[Edit: The conference is now being held in Hong Kong. I don t know the reason behind the change but the original issue has been addressed. I have been accepted to Learning @ Scale so will not be able to attend anyway, as it turns out, as the two conferences overlap by two days and even [ ]