Nick Falkner

I am teaching a general research preparation course for Masters students across my (shiny new) University called RESE 5000 Foundations of Research.

At Koli Calling 2024, which was many lifetimes ago in terms of my last 18 months, I was … well… ranting with Leo Leppänen and Juho Leinonen about the potential issues with the use of GenAI discussants in CS activities that use social constructivism, given…

I’ve just returned from a brief holiday on the Australian East Coast and I had a chance to think about what the new leadership role at the Uni will mean.

I sit at the desk in my new office on Level 5 of the building I’ve been working in for over 10 years, as part of a different university and with a new job title.

Well, well, a third post in the year?

Two posts in the same year?

Being a subset of interesting books from my collection, accompanied with explanatory texts of varying utility, as well as references to this blog.

It has been a tough year.

I was at Koli Calling in 2016 and a paper was presented (“Replication in Computing Education Research: Researcher Attitudes and Experiences”) regarding the issue of replicating previous studies.

[Edit: The conference is now being held in Hong Kong.