Contact Details
Position :
Associate Professor, Faculty of
Information Technology, Monash University
Head, Caulfield School of Information Technology
Office
: H6.13, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Melbourne,
Australia
Telephone : (61) (3)
9903 2701
Fax
: (61) (3) 9903 1077
Email
: judy.sheard@monash.edu
Recent teaching
FIT9017 Foundations of programming
FIT3063 Human-computer interaction
FIT2034 Computer programming 2
Previous teaching
experience
Research
My main research interest is in the area
of computing education. I am co-director of the
Computing
Education Research Group (CERG) within the Faculty of Information Technology.
This group aims to focus on relevant and contemporary educational issues
in computing and seeks to provide a vision for the pedagogical future of
computing. Research projects encompass a wide range of aspects
of computing education. CERG is a member of the Centre
for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI) and Computer Science Education
Research Groups International (CSERGI).
A list of my publications
Recent research interests:
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Theoretical foundations of the computing education research discipline.
- Exam classification project - an investigation of the styles and pedagogical foundations
of formal examinations used in assessment of introductory programming students.
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Pedagogical and epistemological issues in the use of educational technology.
A recent project related to this is:
Web 2.0 Authoring Tools in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: New Directions for
Assessment and Academic Integrity.
An Australian Learning and Teaching Council Priority Project, 2009-2010.
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Investigating learner behaviour through user modelling
of online interactions. Projects related to this research are
Pedant and ViSION.
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History of computing - promoting knowledge of the history of computing.
A current activity is the Virtual Museum Project.
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Student engagement - and related topics of contributing pedagogies and online learning communities.
Projects related to these issues are the Perceptions and Study Habits projects.
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Cheating and plagiarism practices of tertiary students.
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The teaching-research nexus: A recent project related to this is:
The culture of teaching and learning in ICT & engineering: facilitating research professors to be T&L leaders.
An Australian Learning and Teaching Council Leadership Project, 2009-2011.
Administration
Head of School, Caulfield School of Information Technology,
Director of the Monash
Museum of Computing History. a
digital evolution...
Community
Chair, Australasian Chapter of ACM SIGCSE, 2009, 2010.
Program Chair, Australasian
Computing Education Conference (ACE 2000), Monash University,
4-6 December 2000.
Co-organiser, Women
in Computing Forum (WIC7), Monash University, 3 December 2000.
Coordinator, ITiCSE Working Group 2003.
Co-organiser, 1st and 7th Melbourne Computing Education
Conventicles (2004 and 2010).
Organising committee, 2nd, 4th and 5th Melbourne Computing
Education Conventicles, 2005, 2007 and 2008.
Co-editor, Special Issue of Computer Science Education journal, September 2007
Co-editor, Special Issue of Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Co-chair, Doctoral Consortium prior to Koli Calling, Joensuu, Finland, October 2009.
Co-chair, Doctoral Consortium prior to ICER 2011, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, August 2011.
Community outreach activities including Monash
IT Summer School, Camp Monash and Monash Open Day.
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