This year’s UKICER conference will be in Cambridge on the 3rd and 4th September 2026, here’s some key dates as a reminder Submission of research paper abstracts Monday 13th April 2026 Submission of full research paper Tuesday 21st April 2026 Notifications to full paper authors Tuesday 2nd June 2026 Camera-ready version due Thursday 17th July […]

How do students learn the fundamental skill of abstraction? Join us to discuss this via an ITiCSE paper by Marjahan Begum and co-authors [1], from the abstract Abstraction is a fundamental yet challenging skill to teach and learn in Computer Science education. Traditional frameworks of abstraction and concept formation often emphasize understanding an abstraction over […]

The textbook has long been a mainstay of education. Although online textbooks can provide students with easy (and sometimes free) access to increasingly interactive resources, authors have a bewildering array of tools and publishing models to select from. Software such as asciidoctor.org, bookdown.org, leanpub.com, pretextbook.org, quarto.org, rephactor.com, runestone.academy, zybooks.com, and many others allow instructors to […]

“Science is a broad church, full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less”. That’s according to 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? In episode 5 of our podcast we spoke to Steve Draper and […]

What do employers want from Computer Science students and how good are Universities in producing graduates with what employers need? In episode 3 of our community podcast, we spoke to Rosanne English at the University of Strathclyde about her paper co-authored with Alan Hayes Towards Integrated Graduate Skills for UK Computing Science Students published at ukicer.com. From the abstract: […]

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? In episode 2 of our community podcast, we spoke to  Quintin Cutts from the University […]

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? In episode 1 of our community podcast, we spoke to Sue Sentance, at the University of Cambridge about her paper Computing in School in the UK & Ireland: A Comparative […]

There is still time to register for the United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER.com conference. If you are interested in attending, please register at epay.ed.ac.uk. Also, please consider distributing this invitation to your colleagues colleagues.  UKICER will this year take place on 4-5 September 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland, hosted by the School of Informatics of the University […]

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper or workshop proposal to Computing Education Practice conference: CEP 2026. CEP 2026 is the tenth conference in computing education practice. CEP provides an opportunity to discuss with like-minded people the challenges and opportunities that face us, and how these are changing. As well as a […]

We are pleased to announce The Rest is Teaching: A Computing Education podcast for researchers and practictioners, which launched at UKICER.com in Edinburgh. 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 […]