Anna Eckerdal

Professor at Department of Information Technology; Vi3; Computing Education Research

Telephone:
+46 18 471 78 94
E-mail:
anna.eckerdal@it.uu.se
Visiting address:
Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
Postal address:
Box 524
751 21 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:
Docent, Excellent Teacher
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Short presentation

I am professor in Computer Science Education, leading the research group UpCERG, Uppsala Computing Education Research Group, http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/upcerg.

My research has mainly focused on novice students' learning, both university level as at upper secondary school level.

I mostly teach programming courses, and courses on didactics in computer science education.

Keywords

  • computing education research
  • UpCERG
  • brain imaging
  • qualitative research
  • learning in the lab
  • phenomenography
  • variation theory

Research

Dr. Eckerdal's research has focused on how programming students learn concepts and practical skills in the lab, but include research e.g. on threshold concepts in computer science, how academics and students perceive MOOCs, and how students learn software design.

Eckerdal has received research grants from The Swedish Research Council and ACM SIGCSE. She has lately been leading a research project on learning and brain, collaborating with researchers in neuro science. She is active in the international research community, serving on the programme and organising committees of several major conferences, e.g. the ACM conferences ICER and ITiCSE, initiating long standing research collaborations Sweden Group, and has invited a number of international known researchers to UpCERG. Eckerdal has more than 50 publications.

Anna Eckerdal

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