1. © Heikki Topi PACE Workshop on Computing Education Research ACM Education Council Meeting Portland, Oregon 9/16 – 9/17/2014 Heikki Topi, Bentley University

2. PACE Partnership for Advancing Computing Education A cross-society initiative to support communication and collaboration between academic and professional societies that have an active interest in computing education Launched in 2011 as a major follow-up of 2009 Future of Computing Education Summit Charter members ACM, AIS, CRA, CSTA, IEEE-CS, and NCWIT

3. Background August 21-22, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Funded by the NSF Many thanks to Jane Prey for the idea, support and encouragement! Hosted by the National Academies Many thanks to Kitty Didion (National Academy of Engineering)! Keynote by Grady Booch Steering Committee: Lecia Barker, PACE Chair Andrew McGettrick, PACE Co-Chair Jason Thatcher, Grant PI Heikki Topi, Workshop Chair

4. Participants Disciplines represented Computer Science Information Systems Software Engineering Information Technology Computer Engineering Informatics Information Science Engineering Statistics 29 participants representing education-focused researchers in a variety of academic fields Organizations represented: ACM, AIS, CRA, Google, Microsoft, NAE, NCWIT, NSF

5. © Heikki Topi Participants Catherine Ashcraft Lecia Barker Peter Brusilovsky Kathleen Burnett Stephen Cooper Victor Davis Kitty Didion Mike Erlich Armando Fox Christina Gardner-McCune Susanne Hambrusch Nick Horton Stephen Ibaraki Jeffrey P. Landry Michael C. Loui Robert McCartney Andrew McGettrick Matt Nelson James Parrish Jim Pellegrino Jim Pinkelman Jane Prey Mihaela Sabin Bernd Schenk Chris Stephenson Harriet Taylor Jason Thatcher Heikki Topi Joe Valacich

6. Workshop Goals Developing an improved understanding of the differences and similarities between the agendas of the various computing subdisciplines. Moving towards a forward looking and comprehensive joint research agenda for computing education as a whole and not only as a collection of separate subdisciplines Determining ways in which academic and professional societies with a stake in computing education will be able to best serve the computing education research community. Through the prior three mechanisms, enhancing the standing of computing education research and galvanizing it into meaningful and effective action.

7. Modules I. Understanding the computing education research landscape: differences and similarities between the subdisciplines of computing II. Advancing the computing education research agenda and learning from other disciplines III. Particular action items: What specific actions and activities would enhance the standing of computing education research? IV. The role of computing societies

8. Initial Observations Computing education subcommunities have a lot of similaries and share several broad areas of interest (without knowing much about each other) Pedagogy, Assessment, Enrollment All computing disciplines have also their own individual focus areas in CER For example, pipeline issues in CS; Innovation in IS Again, excellent learning opportunities Strong focus on articulating the vision and describing the value of CER better Importance of communicating the specific (positive) impacts of CER to various stakeholder groups

9. Initial Observations Improved communication between CER scholars across computing disciplines is very important – significant learning opportunities exist Natural forums for this are missing Could ICER become one? What is the role of industry participants in CRE? Establishing joint MS/PhD programs to ensure that a graduating PhD has sufficient background

10. Initial Observations Possible roles of professional and academic societies Strengthening the legitimacy and improving the visibility of CER Sharing results across disciplinary boundaries and encouraging the development of cross-disciplinary venues Recognizing high-quality work in CER

11. Follow-up Initiative Identifying the current Grand Challenges of computing education Providing big picture goals for computing education research Help setting and clarifying research agenda Developing a shared understanding between the computing disciplines on CER Impact on status and standing of CER Addressing the question across the subdisciplines of computing education Submissions to SIGCSE 2015 and AIS SIG-ED 2014