Learning educational research methods through collaborative research: the PhICER initiative

Berglund, A., Box, I., Eckerdal, A., Lister, R. and Pears, A.

To accommodate an increasing interest in phenomenography among the computing education research community, the authors of this paper have organised two workshops, or intensive courses, in phenomenography, intended for researchers in computing education at a university level. Although the workshop programs contained lectures and smaller exercises, the emphasis was on preparing one joint publication from each of the workshops. The publication from the first workshop discussed the experience of being a teacher in computing, while the second focused on teachers' experiences of the problems their students encounter when learning computing. The workshops and their impact on the community are discussed in this paper.

Cite as: Berglund, A., Box, I., Eckerdal, A., Lister, R. and Pears, A. (2008). Learning educational research methods through collaborative research: the PhICER initiative. In Proc. Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia. CRPIT, 78. Simon and Hamilton, M., Eds. ACS. 35-42.

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