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Eugene Wallingford just shared this with the SIGCSE-Members list — relevant here, too!

Now that SIGCSE 2011 is in the books, please consider submitting
a paper or proposal to the Educators’ Symposium at SPLASH 2011!

SPLASH is the new umbrella conference for OOPSLA, in which many
of you have participated over the years.  The new name reflects
the fact that OOP isn’t the only focus of the conference.  If
you’ve attended the Educators’ Symposium over the last decade,
you already know that.  OOP is one focus, but the symposium also
deals with other current and future topics in teaching programming
and software development.

The 2011 Educators’ Symposium is tackling this broad mandate head-
on.  What is important in teaching programming to future and
current professionals who work in this rapidly changing world?
What is important in teaching programming to an audience with
interests that range from science to the web to data mining to art?
Where do we go in a post-OO world?

That is the…

Computing Education Blog

Call for papers

THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Providence, Rhode Island, USA, August 8-9, 2011

http://icer-conference.org/

Computing education research is the study of how people come to understand computational processes and devices, and how to improve that understanding. As computation becomes ubiquitous in our world, understanding of computing in order to design, structure, maintain, and utilize these technologies becomes increasingly important–both for the technology professional, but also for the technologically literate citizen. The study of how the understanding of computation develops, and how to improve that understanding, is critically important for the technology-dependent societies in which we live.

The International Computing Education Research (ICER) Workshop aims at gathering high-quality contributions to the computing education research discipline. Papers for the ICER workshop will be peer-reviewed. For the first time this year, ICER…

Computing Education Blog

Saturday was the first C^3 Conference. It was a great pleasure to sit in the audience and see a parade of good speakers from Georgia walk up to talk about their efforts to improve computing education! We had about 30 high school and university teachers stay in an auditorium on a gorgeous Atlanta Saturday (70F in February!), to talk about their teaching practice.

We’re planning on one more C^3 Conference for 2011. Call for participation is below.

Computing Education Blog

I strongly agree with this.  Certainly, we can show learning in short-term studies.  But the most important issues in education (e.g., motivation, attitudes, broadening participation, success in later academic career, success after graduation) can’t be studied in the standard three years of an NSF grant.

A group of education researchers and representatives of private philanthropies argued on Monday for more money for long-term studies of education. Such studies, they said, are often harder to find money to support but tend to be more effective than shorter-term projects at decisively answering key research and policy questions.

The researchers and philanthropists made their case at a gathering on Capitol Hill, titled “Payoffs of Long-Term Investment in Education Research,” that was organized by the American Educational Research Association, the Education Deans Alliance, and the National Academy of Education.

via Researchers and Grant Makers Call for More Long-Term Education…

Computing Education Blog

International M.A. in New Media ­University of Amsterdam.
Call for Applications ­Fall 2011 admission deadline: 1 April 2011

Overview

The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for 2011-2012 academic year. The NMMA is a one-year residence program undertaken in English at UvA in the heart of Amsterdam. Students become actively engaged in critical Internet culture, with an emphasis on new media theory and aesthetics, including theoretical materialist traditions and practical information visualization trends. The overall focus of the MA is on training the students as new media researchers.Our permanent faculty are recognized experts in their fields, who are committed to their students. The program admits approximately forty to fifty students per year, classes are no larger than 20, and the faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10.

Curriculum

1st Semester: students follow a course in academic blogging, led by…

Masters of Media