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J. Ben Schafer Professor, Department of Computer Science
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Current Schedule
To view my teaching schedule and how to schedule a meeting with me please click here.
Teaching
Spring 2025
- CSED 1310, Programming Environments for Elementary Education (On-campus)
- CSED 2310, Foundational Concepts of Computer Science (On-campus)
- CSED 3310, Teaching and Learning Programming (On-campus)
- CSED 5310, Teaching and Learning Programming [For in-service teachers - Cohort 24]
Summer 2025
- CSED 5133, Foundational Concepts of Computer Science [For in-service teachers - Cohort 25]
- CSED 5330, Methods of Computer Science [For in-service teachers - Cohort 24]
Fall 2025
- CSED 1330, Fundamentals of Programming(On-campus)
- CSED 3320, Data Structures and Algorithms (On-campus)
- CSED 4330, Methods of Computer Science (On-campus)
- CSED 5133, Fundamentals of Programming [For in-service teachers - Cohort 25]
- CSED 5320, Data Structures and Algorithms [For in-service teachers - Cohort 24]
Research
Historically, my research interests involved recommender systems, collaborative information systems, and agent assisted interfaces. This draws from the fields of information retrieval, artificial intelligence (AI), and human computer interaction (HCI). I was very involved with this line of research until about 2008 and while I haven't published in this area in a while, it is still very much a part of my interest set. The work I did between 1998 and 2008 continues to be consistently cited as foundational work in the discipline.
However, for over a decade I have been working almost exclusively in computer science education, the use of computers in education, and teaching strategies for computer science education. This includes curriculum work (for which I now chair the Computer Science Education team at UNI), classroom teaching strategies (including curriculum development for POGIL and Peer-Instruction), and alternative grading practices.
Contents last modified March 14, 2025