ACM Computing Education Workshop in Doha, Qatar, May 3, 2010 Heikki Topi, Bentley University

 A selection of communities in computing education research ◦ SIGCSE community  International Computing Education Research (ICER) workshop  SIGCSE and ITiCSE ◦ Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research ◦ Australasian Computing Education Conference

 A selection of communities in computing education research ◦ SIGCSE community  International Computing Education Research (ICER) workshop  SIGCSE and ITiCSE ◦ Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research ◦ Australasian Computing Education Conference ◦ ACM SIGITE ◦ AIS SIGED: IAIM – International Conference on Informatics Education Research ◦ AIS regional conferences: AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS ◦ ISECON

 Journals ◦ Computer Science Education ◦ ACM Transactions on Computing Education ◦ SIGCSE Bulletin

 Journals ◦ Computer Science Education ◦ ACM Transactions on Computing Education ◦ SIGCSE Bulletin ◦ Journal of Informatics Education Research ◦ Information Systems Education Journal ◦ The Journal of Information Technology Education

 Little interaction between computing education researchers within different computing disciplines  Low level of cross-utilization of research results ◦ Lister & Box (2009) – A Citation Analysis of ICER Proceedings ◦ Casual review of recent conference proceedings  Strong believe in the uniqueness of each discipline’s research problems

 Strengthening communities that are relatively small ◦ Particularly important for the very small communities of IS and IT education researchers  Gaining access to a broader experience and expertise base ◦ Building opportunities for ongoing collaboration ◦ Requires the recognition of specialized areas of expertise  Sharing research methodology expertise and innovations

The real challenge in computer education is to avoid the temptation to re-invent the wheel. Computers are a revolutionary human invention, so we might think that teaching and learning about computers requires a new of human learning has not changed in the last 50 years. Too much of the research in computing education ignores the hundreds of years of education, cognitive science, and learning sciences research that have gone before us. (Guzdial, 2005)