The Rest Is Teaching: A Podcast for Computing Education Practitioners & Researchers

Science is a broad church, full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less. That’s according to biologist Steve Jones, but in Computing Education Research (CER) are we being too narrow-minded about what counts (and what doesn’t count) as a contribution? We spoke to  Steve Draper  and  Joseph Maguire  at the University of Glasgow about their paper  The different types of contributio...

The textbook has long been a mainstay of education. Although online textbooks can give students easy (and sometimes free) access to increasingly interactive resources, authors have a bewildering array of tools and publishing models to select from. Freely available software allows instructors to publish course material freed from the constraints of printed paper and monolithic Learning Management S...

Computing is widely taught in schools in the UK and Ireland, but how does the subject vary across primary and secondary education in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland? We spoke to  Sue Sentance,  at the University of Cambridge about her paper  Computing in School in the UK & Ireland: A Comparative Study  co-authored with Diana Kirby, Keith Quille, Elizabeth Cole, Tom Crick and Nicola Looker...

It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither  writing  code or  reading  code are the same as  understanding  code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are reading and writing? We spoke to  Quintin Cutts  from the University of Glasgow about his paper co-authored with Maria Kallia on  Introducing Modelling and Code C...

What do employers want from Computer Science students and how good are Universities in producing graduates with what employers need? We spoke to  Rosanne English  at the University of Strathclyde about her paper co-authoed with Alan Hayes  Towards Integrated Graduate Skills for UK Computing Science Students  published at UKICER. From the abstract: In preparing computing science students for indust...

Welcome to The Rest is Teaching , a podcast for computing education researchers and practitioners. In this podcast we'll meet people who are changing the way we teach Computer Science from school through to University and beyond. What is Computer Science anyway? Why should people learn it and how can we improve the way it is taught? My name is Duncan, I'm your host and we'll meet people who are ta...