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A Case Study: The Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG)

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Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research

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Computing Education Research (CER) is a branch of Discipline Based Education Research (DBER) and is a relatively young research area. The Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG) can be an example of how this area has evolved from the mid-90s, when the group was started, until today, when CER is an established research area at Uppsala University with a research program and full professors. This case study involves searching for and building a community, formulating frameworks for conducting CER, finding and including methods, theories, and people from other disciplines, and developing relevant research questions for CER. The people in UpCERG represent a wide area of research interests, and the case study illustrates, to a large extent, the development of CER in general. The chapter will relate the UpCERG evolution to the CER field in general.

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Daniels, M., Berglund, A., Pears, A. (2023). A Case Study: The Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG). In: Apiola, M., López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M. (eds) Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_12

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