Blar i Institutt for datateknologi og informatikk på tidsskrift "IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON"
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Becoming Fully Operational: Employability and the Need for Training of Computer Science Graduates
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)For graduates in computer science and informatics to get employment as IT professionals, there is a need for their education to provide the competence sought after by employers. To become fully operational in the organization, ... -
Code Reuse and Formative Assessment in Secondary Education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Code reuse is a widely accepted practice in software engineering. Not surprisingly, the practice is becoming more and more widespread also in the context of computing education. This paper explores the use of code reuse ... -
Computer Science in Schools: A Literature Mapping of Professional Development for In-Service Teachers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Learning to program is often reported as challenging. Difficulties might be connected to, e.g., acquisition of core concepts like iteration, specific language constructs, and program design. Additionally, mastery of a ... -
Creating Learning Environments Within the Constraints of Higher Education - a Case Study of a First-Year Computing Program
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Designing a good learning environment is key to improve the student experience and ensure learning. However, it is becoming increasingly challenging to create such environments due the growing number of students and the ... -
Developing health technology innovators: A collaborative learning approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In this paper we present a new initiative to promote collaborative learning through industry partnered, interdisciplinary, student and user centred projects. This was achieved through the development of rehabilitation ... -
Discovering children's competences in coding through the analysis of Scratch projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Computational thinking and coding has received considerable attention over the past several years. Considerable efforts worldwide suggest the need for more empirical studies providing evidence-based practices to introduce ... -
The effect of mandatory assignments on students learning outcome and performance in introductory programming courses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In a world in high demand of engineering professionals, higher education should be effective and quality conscious. A better understanding of what type of activities that are best suited for improving students' learning ... -
An Experience Report on Transitioning to Blended Learning and Portfolio-assessment: a Cross-campus Course in Programming
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The transition from traditional to digital teaching has led to several challenges for students and educators under the COVID-19 pandemic. Most universities are experiencing remote online delivery and assessment for the ... -
Facilitating learning and startup formation in experience-based courses — A team-centered model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Context: This full research paper presents an experience-based course designed around a semester-long external Innovation Bootcamp. Objective: We evaluated the impact of the Innovation Bootcamp on students’ learning and ... -
Identifying Dropout Factors in Information Technology Education: A Case Study
(Journal article, 2017)Educators and researchers have been working to understand the reasons that may be contributing to high dropout rates, and low rates of participation, by females in the computer and information sciences discipline. Along ... -
The Importance of the Campus - A Study on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a CS2 Course
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The educational context for students and educators across the world changed when the COVID-19 pandemic forced most educational institutions to shut down all on-campus activities in the spring of 2020. In this paper, we ... -
Investigating the data science skill gap: An empirical analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)With big data analytics constantly growing in importance for contemporary organizations so does the need for skilled professionals. Perhaps the most critical item noted in the age of data is the lack of people with the ... -
Learning to Program: an In-service Teachers’ Perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Learning to program is often reported as challenging. Difficulties might be connected to, e.g., acquisition of core concepts like iteration, specific language constructs, and program design. Additionally, mastery of a ... -
Mobile learning adoption through the lens of complexity theory and fsQCA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study aims to identify the interrelations among performance expectancy, effort expectancy, enjoyment, and satisfaction in order to predict high intention to use a mobile application for educational services. To this ... -
Project-based learning and training of in-service teachers in programming: Projects as a bridge between training and practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper presents and evaluates a model of project-based learning (PjBL) to train in-service teachers of programming. The paper contributes to the body of knowledge around in-service teachers' training to meet the growing ... -
Reviewing the affordances of tangible programming languages: Implications for design and practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)During the last few years, the development of tools for learning programming in primary and secondary schools (shortly K-12) has reached a significant turning point. This study reviews the published papers on the field of ... -
Software Startup Formation in an Experiential-Based Course - An Empirical Investigation of Students’ Motivations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We added a Bootcamp external activity to our experiential-based course for first-year master students of Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Students engaged with realistic challenges from stakeholders while ... -
The Employer Perspective on Employability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Employability is a term used for describing the skills, knowledge and personal qualities a graduate should possess to get a job. In this paper we suggest what these skills and qualities are for IT undergraduates specializing ... -
The human side of big data: Understanding the skills of the data scientist in education and industry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)It is widely recognized by public and private organizations, that the biggest challenge faced in light of the data revolution is finding people with the required set of skills to transform data into actionable insight. The ...