This year marks the 19th ITiCSE conference. This panel will provide conference delegates, both frequent attendees and those new to ITiCSE the opportunity to reflect on the conference's success as one of the premier international com- puter science ...

Schools and education are of immense political importance, particularly for the upcoming election, both in the European union and for Sweden. The Pisa surveys show disappointing results for Sweden, and the Swedish Committee for Digitisation has analyzed ...

There has been a lot of excitement recently about how new technologies can transform learning. MOOCs, the internet of education and flipped classrooms are the latest hotly debated ways of changing how students learn in the modern world. At the same time,...

Peer review is effective for teaching students to evaluate approaches to problems, fostering collaboration, and assessing other students' work. Peer review often happens after assignments are turned in, on complete artifacts that other students have ...

Design and Analysis of Algorithms are generally acknowledged to be vital to the formation of fully rounded Computer Scientists, because abstract design approaches are applicable to all areas of Computer Science. Yet, designing and analyzing algorithms ...

The "2013 Best Practices in Education Award" (organized by Informatics Europe) was devoted to initiatives promoting Informatics Education in Primary and Secondary Schools. We briefly present the AlgoRythmics project (part of one of the winning proposals)...

AsseSQL is an online, browser-based SQL query assessment tool, developed in-house and designed to assess students' SQL query design and construction skills in a manner that more authentically mirrors how these skills are applied in professional ...

Software engineering students need to understand the major phases of software development such as requirements elicitation, design, etc., as well as the documentation that supports these activities. Students also need to understand the critical need for ...

This study presents the Thesis Steering Model (TSM), an instrument supporting systematic communication and collaboration between the different stakeholders involved in industrial doctoral projects. The results describe TSM and illustrate its ...

In this paper, we describe a novel platform for Computer Science and Engineering education that helps students to connect software concepts with the underlying hardware. Students often learn about programming languages, computer architecture, assembly ...

We present preliminary results of an ongoing study into the barriers to student learning in programming. Unlike similar studies, we look at students who have not previously been high achievers in the education system. The key barriers identified so far ...

Brain-based teaching is neither a method nor a concept. It is rather a way of teaching that tries to support the whole learning and memory process by considering how the brain works. The concept of "Brain-based Programming" is one attempt of putting ...

To enhance the Information Assurance and Security in computer science (CS) education and to prepare students for the challenges of security issues, this paper presents our ongoing work on developing mobile-based hands-on security learning modules that ...

The inverted or flipped classroom has been shown to be effective in computer science. Inverted teaching depends on students engaging in both pre- and in-lecture activities. What reward structure will motivate students to do so? We report on our ...

We mine job ads to discover what skills are required from an employers' perspective. Some obvious trends appear, such as skills related to web and mobile technology. We aim to uncover more detailed information as the study continues to allow course ...

We proposed to investigate whether properly calibrated learning tools can effectively promote algorithmic thinking among both (S)ciences and (H)umanities oriented students. Our investigation revealed that there are no unbridgeable motivational ...

Computational science is a growing scientific field that involves the design of computational models of scientific phenomena. This field combines science, computer-science (CS), and applied mathematics in order to solve complex scientific problems. In ...

Pair programming, a form of collaborative learning where two programmers work on the same computer, enhances learning in novice programmers and improves code quality in experienced programmers. Remote pair programming (RPP) brings the pedagogical ...

One of the main problems that exist when subjects are taught in technical degrees and new technologies are used is how could students be motivated to avoid abandonment In this paper we present our experience in training process with the aid of e-lerning ...

The challenge of transforming the understanding of a problem into a validated solution is not a trivial task. Using the conceptual framework of cognitive apprenticeship we show two ways to guide novices towards becoming masters in model-driven ...