ComputingEd@
Welcome to ComputingEd@UW, a community of UW faculty and students passionate about 1) research about how people learn computing and 2) the practice of how people teach computing.
Our community spans faculty and students from:
- The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
- The Information School (iSchool)
- The College of Education
- The department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)
- The Department of Communication
Join the computinged@uw.edu mailing list to get infrequent announcements. Join the ComputingEd@UW Slack to participate in discussion, message the community, discuss papers and conferences, and more.
How do I meet people in the community?
- Attend the quarterly Sound CS Ed meetup, which brings together researchers, teachers, policy makers, curriculum designers, learning technology creators, and other people passionate about computing education from across Puget Sound.
- Visit a Puget Sound CS Teachers Association meeting, which brings together CS teachers from around the region.
- Engage in a computing education research project.
- Engage in one of the ways to learn to teach computing above.
- Review the many opportunities to get involved in CSE.
How do I participate in research?
There are many ways to get started:
- Read the Computing Education Research FAQ to learn about the field.
- Visit the CSE 590E Computer Science Education seminar. It's got a graduate level course number, but it's open to students at all levels. It often discusses computing education research papers and their application to CS teaching.
- Visit the Code and Cognition Lab, which has several PhD students and undergraduates that conduct computing education research. Join one of the many quarterly lablets, which are informal research gatherings amongst students, led by Amy and her postdocs and doctoral students.
- Reach out to any of the faculty and students in the community to chat about research opportunities.
How do I learn to teach computing?
- Become a CSE or Informatics teaching assistant, both of which entail some training.
- Watch the time schedule for CSE 492T Equitable and Inclusive Computer Science Pedagogy Seminar
- Read the Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research, which surveys research on teaching and learning computing up to 2018, and was partially authored by UW faculty.
- Review the general teaching resources at the UW Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Consider taking EDUC 251 Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity, EDC&I 351 Teaching as a Profession, and E E 406 Teaching Engineering
- Wait patiently for our university to start CS teacher education programs in the College of Education.
- Tutor with the Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE), the Engineering Academic Center (EAC), or the Instructional Center.
- Leverage the knowledge base articles by AccessComputing and the materials from the AccessCSforAll project, which help you ensure your teaching is accessible to people with disabilities.
Who's in the community?
Below is an alphabetized list of faculty and students who've asked to be listed as part of the community. To be listed here, tell us about yourself and we'll add you. We refresh this page at the end of each Spring quarter to keep it fresh.
| Ruth Anderson | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Rahul Banerjee | PhD student | CSE |
| Bob Boiko | Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Lauren Bricker | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Brock Craft | Associate Teaching Professor | HCDE |
| Diana Dai | Undergrad | CSE |
| Andrew Davidson | Associate Teaching Professor | HCDE |
| Matt Davidson | PhD student | Education |
| Sayamindu Dasgupta | Assistant Professor | HCDE |
| Katie Davis | Associate Professor | iSchool |
| Jayne Everson | PhD student | CSE |
| Emilia Gan | PhD student | CSE |
| Katie Headrick-Taylor | Assistant Professor | Education |
| Justin Hsia | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Ari Hock | PhD student | Education |
| Omar Ibrahim | Masters | CSE |
| Lucy Jiang | Undergrad | CSE |
| Richard Ladner | Emeritus Professor | CSE |
| Jialin Li | PhD student | CSE |
| Kevin Lin | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Amy J. Ko | Professor | iSchool |
| Benjamin Mako-Hill | Assistant Professor | Communication |
| Sean Munson | Associate Professor | HCDE |
| Niral Shah | Assistant Professor | Education |
| Jasper Tran O'Leary | PhD student | CSE |
| Alannah Oleson | PhD student | iSchool |
| Hal Perkins | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Pratyush Patel | PhD student | CSE |
| Yim Register | PhD student | iSchool |
| Joel Ross | Associate Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Mara Kirdani-Ryan | PhD student | CSE |
| Jean Salac | Postdoctoral Scholar | iSchool |
| Hunter Schafer | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Abduselam Shaltu | Undergrad | CSE |
| Meron Solomon | Undergrad | Design |
| Steve Tanimoto | Professor | CSE |
| Kyle Thayer | Assistant Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Linda Vong | Undergrad | CSE, Education |
| Jason Yip | Associate Professor | iSchool |
| Robbie Weber | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Brett Wortzman | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Aaron Zhao | Undergrad | iSchool, Education |
| Annuska Zolyomi | Assistant Teaching Professor | Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell |
We also have many former members who have moved to other institutions. Here are their affiliations from when they were here at UW:
| Andrew Hu | Undergrad | CSE, Education |
| Dastyni Loksa | PhD student | iSchool |
| Greg Nelson | PhD student | CSE |
| Benjamin Xie | Postdoc | iSchool |