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Proceedings of INPC 2016
Proceedings and presentations from the 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference in Adelaide.
Dr Rebecca Vivian Receives Barbara Cail Stem Fellowship
Dr Rebecca Vivian has been awarded a Barbara Cail STEM Fellowship. The Fellowships are a highly prestigious award from the Australian Government, funded through a partnership between Chief Executive Women (CEW) and the Office for Women within the Commonwealth Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Only two awards are awarded nationally for this Fellowship scheme. Ms Sarah Chapman, a prize-winning Science educator from Townsville is the second recipient.
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Research Contract: For the Expanded Rollout and Support of the University of Adelaide Digital Technology MOOCs
Our CSER MOOC project provides professional development support for K-8 teachers across Australia in defining and understanding appropriate pedagogy for the teaching of computational thinking within the primary and lower secondary context.
Research Contract: Expanding Teacher Professional Development
Our CSER MOOC project provides professional development support for K-8 teachers across Australia in defining and understanding appropriate pedagogy for the teaching of computational thinking within the primary and lower secondary context.
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Learning@Scale: A Framework for Topic Generation and Labeling from MOOC Discussions
Our first results from our Google Research Grant exploring personalised learning at scale has been accepted as a Work in Progress paper at the upcoming Learning@Scale conference. We are excited to be able to share some of our preliminary results in such a forum, and to be able to share our thoughts on where this work will go next!
New Directions in Subatomic Physics workshop
The New Directions in Subatomic Physics workshop covered a number of areas of subatomic physics in which Professor Tony Williams made significant contributions during his career.
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$6.9 Million Funding Agreement with Department of Education and Training to Support K-12 Digital Technologies
Today we hosted a visit from Minister Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, and Minister Pyne, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, to announce a new funding agreement expand our work with the CSER MOOCs to a national support program for Australian teachers within the Digital Technologies space!
Research Contract: Pathways to Computer Science: Enabling Equity and Diversity
The underrepresentation of women in Computer Science (CS) remains a crucial problem despite significant efforts by both industry and academia to redress the issue. A large number of studies exist in the literature focusing on the reasons why female students do not take up Computer Science or do not stay, and how the pipeline, i.e., the path from kindergarten to university, is broken.
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Ace 2015: Teaching Computational Thinking in K-6: The CSER Digital Technologies MOOC
A paper about CSER’s work with the Digital Technologies MOOC has been accepted for presentation and publication in the Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE) next year.
A Look at IT and Engineering Enrolments in Australia
Digital technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive and many careers today involve some aspect of technology – from medicine, business, education, fashion, economics and many others. Simply viewing the Careers with Code guide, one can see the vast variety and applications of Computing and Engineering-related careers, as well as the application of coding across a number of disciplines.
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