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Active learning is a set of techniques that require the student to take an active role in their learning during lecture.   Research strongly...

Ben Blum  defended his dissertation work today on Practical Concurrency Testing.  What follows are the notes from that defense. To prove t...

I want to take a brief time to link to two of Mark Guzdial's recent posts.  Both including an important theme in teaching.  Students lea...

Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to teach? - Dr Daniel T. Willingham Critical thinking is intertwined with content knowledge.  We sa...

Studies have shown that using active learning techniques improve student learning and engagement.  Anecdotally, students have brought up the...

Having now read both Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition and Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition) , I have settled o...

This fall I will again be Instructor of Record.  My appointment is to teach CS 4392 - Programming Languages.  This is an unusual situation i...

I recognize that Day 1 afternoon went “missing”.   I presented my poster and that consumed the sum total of my time.  While I am happy ...

It is colder here in Kansas City.  Fortunately, I will only be outside briefly.  Most often I will be networking and continuing my efforts t...

Recently in the news are two articles that relate to improving Computer Science Education.  It is valuable to broaden the base of students w...

In continuing my search and preparation for a faculty position, today I attended a mini-seminar by LADO faculty.  (LADO - liberal arts colle...

Today the day will be in reverse. We'll start with papers and end with the invited speaker. I have met many attendees and even talked ...

Well rested, it is time for conference again! Keynote today by code.org. When teaching someone programming, you don't tell them this i...

Concept inventory for Operating Systems! Develop an open concept inventory for a wider collection of classes, starting with an OS course. ...

Here I am attending a Computer Science education conference. Started off with an interesting keynote, a break and meet a couple of faculty,...

I'm sitting in Michael Hewner's thesis defense on "Student Conceptions About the Field of Computer Science". And I think...

Besides my usual semesters of computer science courses and research, this fall I'm cross-enrolled at a neighboring university that offer...

The NY Times ran an article at the start of last month on what CS education is required for non-majors, Computer Science for Non-Majors . I...