MCEC 2011
Eighth Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle
MCEC 2012
MCEC 2012 will be held at RMIT on Friday 2 November 2012. Further details will be announced as they become available.
| Dates | Thursday November 17, 2011 (Pre-Conventicle Workshops - Optional) Friday November 18, 2011 |
| Location | Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122 |
About MCEC2011
Swinburne University of Technology is pleased to host the Eighth Annual Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle (MCEC2011). The Conventicle is usually one-day conference. For the first time this year we have added pre-conventicle workshops:
An Australian Learning and Teaching Council Improving Teaching workshop: designing and facilitating learning at the subject level. Facilitated by Dr. Sue Wright (University of Melbourne), and a Doctoral Symposium facilitated by Professor John Grundy (Swinburne University of Technology).
The Conventicle and pre-conventicle workshops are free and open to all who wish to attend. The format will consist of presentations, discussion forums and opportunities to network over lunch, and morning and afternoon tea. The day will conclude with a dinner in a nearby venue. See Program for more detail.
Keynote Speakers
Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His research area is learning sciences & technologies, with a special focus on computing education research. He built the first Wiki designed for classroom use, called the Swiki or CoWeb. He developed the "Media Computation" approach to teaching introductory computing (both CS1 and data structures) which is having remarkably high success rates, especially with non-majors.
He has co-authored three textbooks on Media Computation: A CS1 in Python text, a CS1 in Java text, and a data structures in Java text. He directs the National Science Foundation alliance "Georgia Computes!" which aims to improve computing education and broaden participation in computing across the entire state of Georgia. His blog on computing education aaverages around 300 visits per day. He serves on the ACM's Education Board and SIGCSE Board.
Guzdial, with his wife and collaborator Barbara Ericson, won the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award for their work with Media Computation and broadening participation in computing in Georgia.
Mark is sponsored by the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program
Richard Buckland
Richard Buckland is director of first year computing at UNSW. He is a passionate educator and advocate of openness and student empowerment and has taught computing and mathematics to students at all levels infants primary secondary and tertiary. He has won numerous teaching awards including from the ALTC, the Australian Association of Engineering Educators, and the Australian College of Educators. He publishes his lectures and course materials openly and his first year lectures have had over a million views on YouTube. Most recently he has been awarded a Google Research Award for his work integrating an altered reality game "Irrational Treasure" into UNSW's CS1 course. He is well known for a love of toast, Battenburg cake, and getting caught in the rain.
Other sponsors include:
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Australian Council of Deans in ICT |
| Australian Council of Engineering Deans Inc. | |
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HERDSA |
For further information or inquiries please email mcec2011@swin.edu.au.
