Anna Eckerdal

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology, Vi3; Computing Education Research

Email:
anna.eckerdal[AT-sign]it.uu.se
Telephone:
+4618-471 7894
Visiting address:
Room ÅNG 104178 hus 10, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:
Box 337
751 05 UPPSALA

Short presentation

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

I am the coordinator of the MINT center, the faculty of Science and Technology's Centre for Discipline-BAsed Education Research in Mathematics, Engineering, Science and Technology, mint.uu.se

I mostly teach programming courses, presently focusing on secondarey school teacher and teacher students.

Academic merits: Docent, Excellent Teacher

Keywords: upcerg computing education research qualitative research learning in the lab phenomenography variation theory

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Dr. Eckerdal received her MSc and PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden. Eckerdal's research has focused on how programming students learn concepts and practical skills in the lab, but include research e.g. on computing at school, 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 and is currently 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, initiating long standing research collaborations Sweden Group, and has invited a number of international known researchers to UpCERG. Eckerdal has more than 50 publications.

Eckerdal has served on the IT department board, as member of the Uppsala University Academic Senate, and Uppsala University's strategic e-learning group. Eckerdal is currently the coordinator of the Centre for Discipline-Based Education Research in Mathematics, Engineering, Science and Technology at the Faculty on Science and Technology at Uppsala University, www.mint.uu.se.

Dr. Eckerdal's research 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 and is currently 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.

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Anna Eckerdal