Computing Education Research
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Research group description
The Computing Education Research (CER) group at the Faculty of Information Technology focuses on education research in the computing context, sharing interests with the international CER community. The research group consists of teacher-as-researchers. The research we have conducted comprises various topics in project-based education, programming education, SQL education, K-12 outreach, educational use of version control systems, learning technology, and education improvement efforts. The overview of computing education research in Finland is available in one of our publications (see, ).
We take CER as a necessarily multi-disciplinary field and, accordingly, attempt to enrich the theoretical base of how computing education is investigated.
Recent news/call for papers:
59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) will take place at Hyatt Regency Maui on January 6-9, 2026.
encourages submissions from any disciplinary background reporting different kinds of studies: e.g., empirical studies, case studies, methods and techniques, conceptual frameworks, and literature reviews. Beyond the title of the minitrack, the minitrack covers research and practice framed as related to neighboring concepts such as: computing educators, instructional designers, teacher, school administrators, policymakers, and other actors involved with Computing Education.
