Events

We organize and sponsor a number of events throughout the year to promote computer science education. Please contact Heather Carney with questions, comments or suggestions.

A complete schedule for the ongoing Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy, can be found at: http://www.intro.cs.cmu.edu/events/colloquium.html.

Current events

Recent events

  2007-10-02   Colloquium on CS Pedagogy, Peter Brusilovsky
  2007-11-06   Colloquium on CS Pedagogy, Anne Fay
  2007-05-01   Colloquium on CS Pedagogy, Richard Pattis
  2007-04-03   Colloquium on CS Pedagogy, Richard Scheines
  2007-03-06   Colloquium on CS Pedagogy, Richard Anderson

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

For more information or a complete schedule, including upcoming talks, click here.

Tuesday, May 6, 3:00 pm, NSH 3305

Manuel Blum, Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science and Carnegie Mellon University Professor, will present at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

For more information or a complete schedule, including upcoming talks, click here.

Tuesday, Oct 02, 3:00 pm, NSH 3305

Peter Brusilovsky, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, will present "Teaching C Programming with Web-based Personalized Tools" at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

Professor Brusilovsky will present a suit of web-based tools aimed to enrich educational experience of students in programming classes and complement the lack of personalization. Each of the four presented tools engages a student in an interactive work with problems, examples, or readings while attempting to adapt to the student's current knowledge and needs.

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

Tuesday, Nov 6, 3:00 pm, NSH 3305

Anne Fay, Director of Assessment, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & The Office of Technology for Education (OTE), will present "Assessment-Centered Instruction: Using Assessment to Support Educational Effectiveness" at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

Dr. Fay's talk will explore how our new understanding of learning can be used to change and expand our instructional pracctices and change how we think about and engage in assessment activities. She will present examples of instructional innovations and assessment practices to illustrate how integrating assessment of student learning into our instructional practices can make teaching and learning more effective and efficient.

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

For more information or a complete schedule, including upcoming talks, click here.

Tuesday, May 1, 3:00 pm, NSH 3305

Richard Pattis, Associate Teaching Professor and SCS Freshman Advisor, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, will present "CS-1: Forwards and Backwards" at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

Professor Pattis will talk about how CS-1 has been taught, is taught, might be taught, and should be taught, focusing on CS-1 as an introduction to programming course. He will also discuss whether CS-1 should be a programming course (relative to majors and non-majors), and if so what kind of programming should be taught - beyond language issues.

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

For more information or a complete schedule, including upcoming talks, click here.

Tuesday, April 3, 3:00 pm, NSH 3305

Richard Scheines, Head, Department of Philosophy and Professor, Department of Philosophy, Machine Learning, and HCI, Carnegie Mellon University, will present "Online Education: Using the Computer Where it Helps" at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

A number of faculty at CMU have developed and deployed online courses through the Open Learning Initiative. Professor Scheines and many others have developed a course in Causal and Statistical Reasoning that involves a virtual lab, and which has been ussed at over 40 institutions by several thousand students. He will discuss where the computer is helpful in teaching and where it is not. He will also discuss the OLI environment and project.

Colloquium on CS Pedagogy

For more information or a complete schedule, including upcoming talks, click here.

Tuesday, March 6, 3:00 pm, WEH 7500

Richard Anderson, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, will present "Promoting Student Engagement with Classroom Presenter" at a special Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy lecture.

Classroom Presenter is a Tablet PC-based classroom interaction system developed at University of Washington. The system supports the real time sharing of electronic slides and digital ink between the instructor and the students. This talk includes a brief overview of the system and deployments, followed by a discussion of the pedagogy that is being developed around pen-based interaction in the classroom.