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Abstract

Despite being a small country, Finland has been highly visible in international Computing Education Research (CER). This is demonstrated by the presence of several important research groups, dozens of graduated PhD students in CER during the last 20 years, and the success of the Koli Calling International Conference of CER, which has been running for 20 years now. In this chapter, we present the development of the CER field in Finland, the profiles of various research groups, and the roles of several national level networking activities which have supported the field. We discuss factors behind the strong presence and success of CER in Finnish universities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    European Credit Transfer System. One ECTS means roughly 26 h of work.

  2. 2.

    Many more have been completed in the groups in other, closely related areas, such as engineering education research, educational technology or ICT4D. We counted only those ones in CER. We, however, acknowledge that the borderline of what is included in CER or not is not always obvious.

  3. 3.

    Aalto University was launched in 2010 as a merger of Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and University of Art and Design.

  4. 4.

    https://www.mooc.fi.

  5. 5.

    https://www.innokas.fi/en.

  6. 6.

    Later on the Department of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Joensuu (2006-2010) and the School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland (2010-current).

  7. 7.

    https://www.impdet.org.

  8. 8.

    The name of the group was also changed from edTech to Technologies for Learning and Development.

  9. 9.

    https://fitech.io/en/.

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