CS Education Reading Group

The Computer Science Education Reading Group hasn't yet been scheduled for 2010W1, but stay tuned! We typically discuss three papers of a common theme every week: one from the general education literature, one from the CS education literature, and one 'Star Trek' paper detailing a CS educator who boldy went where no educator had gone before. Anyone is welcome to attend in a particular week provided they have read at least one of the papers for that week.

To get updates on upcoming discussions, subscribe to cssei-interest at cs.ubc.ca. This is where papers are posted; this page is not regularly maintained. Some old papers for the group are available at the CSSEI blog, and on the old tWiki page.

Upcoming Schedule

See mailing list.

A Sample of Past Discussions

Date	Theme	Discussion Leader	Papers
Oct 22	Thinking from Outside the CS Box	Ray	What can computer science learn from a fine arts approach to teaching? (Barker, Garvin Doxas and Roberts) The computer science debate: it's a matter of perspective (Lewis and Smith) Inventing to Prepare for Future Learning: The Hidden Efficiency of Encouraging Original Student Production in Statistics Instruction (Schwartz and Martin) CS0++ Broadening Computer Science at the Entry Level (Cushing, Hastings, and Walter)
Oct 15	Problem Solving	Wendy and Ray	Abstract, Diagram and Definition of Problem Solving (McKracken) Problem Solving Skill Evaluation (Adams & Wieman)
Oct 8	Assignments	Steve	Learning Writing by Reviewing (Phys students write/review papers; Cho et al; CSCL 2007) How People Learn, 96-99 Poogle (Head and Wolfman)
Oct 29	Curriculum and Curriculum Change	Ben	What Drives Curriculum Change? (Gruba et al) The Handbook for Curriculum Assessment (Wolf, Hill and Evers) A Methodology for the Design of Courses in IS (Bryant)

To go further back in the archive, see the tWiki page