Curriculum Vitae

Anna Eckerdal
Uppsala University, Information Technology, Dept. of Scientific Computing,
Box 337, SE-751 05 Uppsala. E-mail: Anna.Eckerdal@it.uu.se

Academic position: Senior Lecturer (Docent) in Computer Science with specialization in Computer Science Education.

Education

PhD in Computer Science with specialization in Computer Science Education, Uppsala University, March 2009. Titel: Novice Programming Students' Learning of Concepts and Practise. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 600. ISBN 978-91-554-7406-5

M.Sc. in Scientific Subjects Education including Mathematics and Physics, Uppsala University, June 1982.

Work Experience

High school: From July 1982 through Mars 1983 teacher in Mathematics and Physics at Thorildsplans Technical Highschool in Stockholm.
From Mars 1983 through June 1984 teacher in Mathematics and Physics at Vasa Technical Highschool in Stockholm.
From May 1985 through April 1986 teacher in Mathematics at Mnene Secondary School in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe.
From August 1987 through August 1989 teacher in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at Timrå Gymnasieskola.
From August 1989 through June 1999 teacher in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at Högbergsskolan in Tierp.
University: From July 1999 through June 2010 lecturer at Uppsala University, teaching C++ and Java programming, and ICT, Information and Communication Technology, at undergraduate courses.

From July 2010 -- lecturer (lektor / assistant professor) at Uppsala University, the IT-department, division of Scientific Computing.

From June 2015 -- senior lecturer (docent / associate professor) at Uppsala University, the IT-department, division of Scientific Computing.

Current tasks:
- Research, currently 50%
- teaching undergraduate courses in Java programming, currently 25%
- Student counsellor (institutionsstudievägledare) at the Department of Information Technology, 20% (from January 2011)
- Leader of the programming teacher team at the division of Scientific Computing, 5%

Teaching experience at higher education level

Datorer och programmering, 5 p, C++, distance course. 1999 – 2001.
ICT, 5p, for teacher training students. 2001 and 2002. Course coordinator.
Programmeringsteknik I, 5p, C++ for campus students, e.g. Bachelor programs in Mathematics and Natural Science, and Teacher training students. 2000 – 2001.
Programmeringsteknik I, 5p, Java for campus students, e.g. civilingenjörsstudenter (for example Tekniks Fysik, Kemi, Miljö och Vatten), and Bachelor programs (Mathematics and Natural Science) 2001 – present. Course coordinator.
Programmeringsteknik II, 5p, Java for campus students, e.g. civilingenjörsstudenter (for example Tekniks Fysik and Elektro), and Bachelor programs (Mathematics and Natural Science). 2009 – present.
Have taught teachers at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University. The course was given by TUR, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakultetens utbildningspedagogiska råd.
Assisted occasionally at the advanced level course Computing Education Research at the Department of Information Technology.

I have given advanced level tutorial on computing education research methodology:
- the second workshop on Phenomenography in Computer Science Education research, PhICER, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 11-12, 2006.
- Erasmus exchange: workshop on research methods at Doctoral days at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 5 - 7, 2012.
- the 3rd International Doctoral Consortium on Informatics Engineering Education Research, held in Druskininkai, Lithuania, 3rd to 7th of December 2012.

Supervision and Examination of PhD, Mater, and Bachelor Students

- Co-supervising PhD student Anne-Kathrin Peters. Lic thesis april 2014.
- External examiner of Ilona Box's PhD thesis, University of Technology, Sydney. January 2013.
- Supervised Moritz Rogalli's Master thesis.
- Supervised two Bachelor thesis, currently one.
- Have co-organized and supervised PhD students at the Doctoral Consortium, held at the LaTiCE conference in Macau, March 2013.
- Invited speaker to the 3rd International Doctoral Consortium on Informatics Engineering Education Research, held in Druskininkai, Lithuania, 3rd to 7th of December 2012. Organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University.

Administrative experiences

- Project leader of the project Brain and Bearning: hands-on Programming, 2016 - 2018. Project supported by the Swedish Research Council. Members of the project: Michael Thuné, Uppsala University; Sara Bengtsson, KI; Maria Weurlander, KTH.
- Project leader of the T-PIPE project, Theory and Practice in Programming Education, 2012 – 2014. Project supported by the Swedish Research Council. Members of the project: Michael Thuné and Anders Berglund, Uppsala University; Inga-Britt Skogh and Lennart Rolandsson, KTH.
- Student councellor at the Department of Information Technology 2011 – present.
- Member of Uppsala University's strategic e-learning group 2014
- Leading the programming teacher team at the Department of Information Technology, division of TDB
- Member of “Akademiska senate”, Uppsala University. 2011 – 2014.
- Member of the board of the Department of Information Technology (teacher), 2006 - 2012
- Member of the nominating committee for the board of the Department of Information Technology, 2012
- Member of the board for the Bachelor Programme in Electrical Engineering, 2010-2011.

Research

My research area is computing education research. My main research interest is how programming students learn and connect theoretical and practical knowledge in the lab, and consequently how teaching can be improved. This is the topic of the T-PIPE project, Theory and Practice in Programming Education, supported by the Swedish Research Council. This was also part of my PhD thesis which I defended in March 2009. This work will be further developed in the BLHOP-project where we will study programming students' learning hands-on and brain-processes.

Other areas where I have published are e.g. on educational issues related to Learning Analytics, Software design, Threshold Concept in Computer Science, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Computer Science teachers percpetion of their teaching, and Informal Learning related to Computer Science.

Research groups and Networks

- Member of the UpCERG research group, IT-department, Uppsala University
- Founding member of “Sweden Group”, a research collaboration with seven participants from Sweden (three), UK (one), and US (three). Organizer of the annual Sweden Group research meeting at Uppsala University, 2-4 days, since 2005 (except 2012).
- Participating in Nationellt nätverk för Fenomenografi och Variationsteori
- Participating in the the Nordic Network of Engineering Education Research (NNEER)
- I have taken part in organizing an international research collaboration on MOOCs together with researchers from Sweden (two), Finland (one), China (one) and Australia (two).

When I started as a PhD student members of my research group UpCERG introduce me to researchers and conferences in the Computing Education Research community, and to the community of Phenomenography and Variation Theory. These initial contacts then lead to further research contacts which have developed to my current wide international network. I have so far published 55 different researchers from 12 different countries, I have been invited as guest researcher and to give seminars, and I have invited guest researchers to my research group at Uppsala University. The network has also provided the base for new research projects like the MOOC project, and the research project on Brain and Learning that will start 2016.

Research grants

The Swedish Research Council, grant 2015-01920. 8.010.000 SEK, 3 years. Start 2016.
MINT, the center for Mathematics, Engineerings, Natural science and Technology education, Uppsala University. Approx. 200.000 SEK, 2015.
The Swedish Research Council, grant 2011-5924. 5.5 MSEK, 3 years. Start 2012.
FORUM för ämnesdidaktiska studier, Uppsala University: 78.000 SEK, 2011
- 78.000 SEK spring semester;
- 150.000 SEK, fall semester for myself and Michael Thuné
The Department of Information Technology: RTTS, Research Time for Teaching Staff:
- 150.000 SEK, 2010;
- 100.000 SEK 2010.
ACM SIGCSE grant, 5000 USD to Sweden Group 2009: transcriptions, travels and other expenses.

Travel grants, selected:

Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse: 22.000 SEK 2007, 40.000 SEK 2009, 40.000 SEK 2011
Anna Maria Lundins stiftelse (Smålands nation): 22.000 SEK, 2007; 40.000 SEK, 2008
Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakultetsnämnden: 7000 SEK
UU: rektors resepengar
VR: travel grant for conference

Other scientific qualifications

Citation indices, Google Scholar by December 14, 2015. First publication 2004. Most cited article: 109 citations.
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Associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), http://toce.acm.org/ Indexed and abstracted by Thompson Reuters ISI/Web of Science.
Reviewing
Journals:
- the ACM Transactions on Computing Education, TOCE
- Computer Science Edcucation, Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ncse20/current#.U70RlLHux4w
- International Scholarly Research Network, http://www.isrn.com/ (-- December 2012)
- Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
- Studies in Higher Education

Conferences:
- Member of the Program Committee for ICER (ACM), International Computing Education Research Workshop 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
- Member of the Program Committee for LaTiCE (IEEE ), Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering conference 2013 and 2014.
Scientific Conferences and workshops: Co-organizer of workshops:
-The second workshop on Phenomenography in Computer Science Education research, PhICER, University of Kent, September 2006.
- Nationell Nätverksträff för pedagogisk och ämnesdidaktisk forskning inom Fenomenografi och Variationsteori om lärande, 27–28 okt 2011, Uppsala University.

Member of the local committee for ITiCSE (ACM) 2014, Uppsala University.

Presentations: I have presented research papers at several conferences, e.g.
- ICER 2005, Seattle
- Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Glasgow 2006
- ITiCSE 2009, Paris
- LaTiCE 2013, Macau
- EARLI SIG9 conference on Phenomenography and Variation Theory 2012, 2014
- LaTiCE 2015, Taipei

Session chair at several conferences, e.g. LaTiCE2015, ITiCSE2014, LaTiCE2013, and Koli Calling 2011.
Invited Key note speaker at the BRACElet workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, September 9-10, 2010.
Invited guest researcher, Auckland University of Technology, September 4-19, 2010.
Have invited the following guest researchers to the UpCERG research group:
- Professor Robert McCartney, University of Connecticut, and professor Kate Sanders, Rhode Island College. Sabbatiacal at the department of Information Technology, January – June 2009.
- Dr. Ričardas Kudzma, Vilnius University, February 25 – March 1, 2013
- Professor Marian Petre, Open University, November 4 - 11, 2013.
- Dr. Michael Morgan, Monash University, May 19 - 31, 2014.
- Prof. Peter Hubwieser, Technische Universität München, September 21 - 25, 2015.

Pedagogic Development Work

Course development:

Developing educational material in word processing and spread sheet calculation at Timrå Gymnasieskola, 1989.
Course design and development, teaching programming in the language Pascal at Högbergsskolan Tierp, 1994.
Developing lectures and assignments in C++, adapted for distance teaching and provided via Internet, at Uppsala University, 1999 – 2000.
Course design and development in ICT, Information and Communication Technology, mainly HTML, Uppsala University, 2001 - 2002. I developed the main content of this course.
Developing lectures and assignments together with colleagues for campus courses in C++ at Uppsala University, 2000 – 2001.
Developing lectures and assignments for campus courses in Java at Uppsala University, 2001 – present. The scholarly approach has been inspired by variation theory and constructivism. This work has been implemented in close collaboration with my colleagues. Examples of my contributions are:
- Introduced “BlueJ” as a new and student friendly editor for novice programmers.
- Invited Michael Casperssen, Aarhus, Denmark, to inform on how to assess programming at computers (instead of written exams in lecture halls). I have been part of the introduction of computer aided assessment.
- Invited Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ercisson, Georgia Tech., USA, who lead a workshop on how to teach programming using multimedia. This workshop resulted in a completely revised first programming course.

Leader of the programming teacher team, the Department of Information Technology, division of Scientific Computing
In my function as the leader of the teacher team, I can connect my research to teaching. Since I visit research conferences on computing education, I have for example taken part in workshops on new technologies like IDEs for novices (BlueJ, Greenfot), and Android app programming and brought some of these technologies back to our campus courses. Further, when I read research articles that are relevant for the teacher team, I discuss them with my colleagues. One example is an article on how to best support teaching assistants (TAs) in programming courses.

Invited speaker to scientific pedagogic seminars
I have been invited to a number of universities to talk about my research, specifically after the press release of my thesis in March 2009. Below is the list of universities:

Queensland University of Technology Brisbande, Australia, September 2008
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, September 2008
Linköpings University, Institutionen för Dataveteskap, June 2009
Södertörns University, June 2009
University of St Joseph, Macau, China, December 2009
Stockholms University, January 2010
Handelshögskolan Örebro University, April 2010
Uppsala University, Pedagogiska institutionen, June 2010
KTH Learning Lab, September 2010
Aberystwyth University, UK, November 2012
Participated in TUR (Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakultetens universitetspedaogiska råd), giving pedagogical seminars, 2013.
Uppsala University, the Strategic e-learning group, November 2014.
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2015.
Uppsala University, KUUP, May 2015.
Invited by lecturer Kristina von Hausswolff to give a seminar on Copmuting Education research at Malmö Högskola, Department of Computer Science, May 2015.

List of publications

Thesis

"Novice Students' Learning of Object-Oriented Programming" Licentiate thesis 2006-006, Department of Information technology, Uppsala university, Sweden.

"Novice Programming Students' Learning of Concepts and Practise", Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 600. ISBN 978-91-554-7406-5.

Journals

"Students designing software: a multi-national, multi-institutional study", Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Josh Tenenberg, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, Alvaro Monge, Jan Erik Moström, Kris Powers, Mark Ratcliffe, Anthony Robins, Dean Sanders, Leslie Schwartzman, Beth Simon, Carol Stoker, Allison Elliott Tew, Tammy VanDeGrift. Informatics in Education 2005, 4(1), p 143-162.

"Categorizing student software designs: Methods, results, and implications." Eckerdal, A. & McCartney, R. & Moström, J. E. & Ratcliff, M. & Zander, C. Computer Science Education, 16(3), 2006.

"What do CS students try to Learn? Insights from a distributed, project-based course in computer systems" Berglund, A. & Eckerdal, A. Computer Science Education 2006, 16(3), p. 185 - 195.

"Learning educational research methods through collaborative research: the PhICER initiative." (2008) Berglund, A., Box, I., Eckerdal, A., Lister, R & Pears, A. Australian Computer Science Communications. 30(5), 35 - 42..

"Variation Theory Applied to Students' Conceptions of Computer Programming" Thuné, M. and Eckerdal, A. European Journal of Enineering Education, 34(4), 2009

"Liminal Spaces and Learning Computing" McCartney, R. & Boustedt, J. & Eckerdal, A. & Moström, J. E. & Sander, K. & Thomas, L. & Zander, C. European Journal of Enineering Education, 34(4), 2009

"Learning Computer Science: Perceptions, Actions and Roles" Berglund, A., Eckerdal, A., Pears, A., East, P., Kinnunen, P., Malmi, L., McCartney, R., Moström, J., Murphy, L., Ratcliffe, M., Schulte, C., Simon, B., Stamouli, I., Thomas, L. European Journal of Enineering Education, 34(4), 2009

"Naturally occurring data as research instrument: analyzing examination responses to study the novice programmer" Lister, Raymond and Clear, Tony and Simon, and Bouvier, Dennis J. and Carter, Paul and Eckerdal, Anna and Jackova', Jana and Lopez, Mike and McCartney, Robert and Robbins, Phil and Seppälä, Otto and Thompson, Errol SIGCSE Bulletin, 41(4), 2009

"Report on the final BRACElet workshop: Auckland University of Technology, September 2010" Clear, T., Whalley, J., Robbins, P., Philpott, A., Eckerdal, A., Laakso, M., & Lister, R. (2011). Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology Vol. 15, Issue 1. ISSN 2230-4398. Retrieved June 23, 2011 from http://citrenz.ac.nz/jacit/JACIT1501/2011Clear_BRACElet.html

"Relating Theory and Practice in Laboratory Work: A Variation Theoretical Study." Eckerdal, A. (2015). Studies in Higher Education 40:5, 867-880, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.857652

"Why computing students learn on their own: motivation for self-directed learning of computing" McCartney, R. & Boustedt, J. & Eckerdal, A. & Sanders, K. & Thomas, L. & Zander, C. Accepted for publication. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.

"In the liminal space: software design as a threshold skill" Thomas, L. & Boustedtt, J. & Eckerdal, A. & McCartney, R. & Moström, J. E. & Sanders, K. & Zander, C. Accepted for publication. Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education ISSN 1750-8428 Vol 10 Special Issue: Threshold Concepts and Conceptual Difficulty. Eds. Land, R., Rattray, J. & Matthew, R.

Publications after peer review

"A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs", Fincher, S., Petre, M., Tenenberg, J., Blaha, K., Bouvier, D., Chen, T.-Y., Chinn, D., Cooper, S., Eckerdal, A., Johnson, H., McCartney, R., Monge, A., Moström, J.-E., Powers, K., Ratcliffe, M., Robins, A., Sanders, D., Schwartzman, L., Simon, B., Stoker, C., Tew, A. E., VanDeGrift T. In proceedings of the Fourth Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, Koli Calling, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2004, pp. 20-27

"Novice Java Progammers' Conceptions of "Object" and "Class", and Variation Theory", A. Eckerdal and M. Thuné, In Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, (2005) pages 89 - 93

"What Does it Take to Learn 'Programming Thinking'?", A. Eckerdal and A. Berglund. Proceedings of the 1st International Computing Education Research Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA, 2005, pp. 135 -143.

"What do our Students Strive for? Insights from a Distributed, Project-based Course in Computer Systems", A. Berglund and A. Eckerdal. Koli Calling Conference, Koli, Finland, November 2005. Proceedings of the Fifth Koli Calling Conference on Computer Science Education, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu.

"Comparing student Software Designs Using Semantic Categorization", A. Eckerdal and R. McCartney, and J. E. Moström, and M. Ratcliff, and C. Zander. In the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland, November 2005.

"Can graduating students design software systems?", Eckerdal, A. & McCartney, R. & Moström, J. E. & Ratcliff, M. & Zander, C. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2006 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Houston, pp 403 - 407, Texas USA March 1-5, 2006

"Putting threshold concepts into context in computer science education.", Eckerdal, A. and McCartney, R. and Moström, J.E. and Ratcliffe, M. and Sanders, K. and Zander, C. In Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 2006, pp. 103-107, 2006

"Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: do they exist and are they useful?" Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J. E., Ratcliff, M., Sanders, K., Zander, C. The SIGCSE 2007 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA, March 7-10, 2007

"Successful students' strategies for getting unstuck" McCartney, R., Eckerdal, A., Moström, J. E., Sanders, K., Zander, C. In Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, pp. 156 - 160, 2007

"From Limen to Lumen: computing students in liminal spaces" Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., Zander, C. Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 123 - 132, 2007

"What's the Problem? Teachers' Experience of Student Learning Successes and Failures" Pears, A., Berglund, A., Eckerdal, A., East, P., Kinnunen, P., Malmi, L., McCartney, R., Moström, J., Murphy, L., Ratcliffe, M., Schulte, C., Simon, B., Stamouli, I., Thomas, L. The Ninth Baltic Seas (Koli Calling 2007), Koli, Finland. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 88, Raymond Lister, Ed. November, 2007

"Student Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming as Expressed in Concept Maps" Sanders, K., Boustedt, J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In proceedings of the SIGCSE 2008 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 12-15, 2008

"Concrete Examples of Abstraction as manifested in Students' Transformative Experiences" Moström, J.E., Boustedt J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In proceedings of the forth International Computing Education Research Workshop, Sydney, Australia, September 2008

"Computer Science Student Transformations: Changes and Causes" Moström, J.E., Boustedt J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Paris, France, July 2009

"Harnessing Surprise: Tales from Students' Transformational Biographies" Thomas, L., Zander, C., Eckerdal, A. In the Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2010 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, March 10-13, 2010

"Computing Students Learning Computing Informally" McCartney, R., Eckerdal, A., Moström, J.E., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., and Zander, C. In Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference in Computing Education Research, p.43-48. Koli, Finland, October 2010.

"Relationship Between Text and Action Conceptions of Programming: A Phenomenographic and Quantitative Perspective" Eckerdal, A., Laakso, M.J., Lopez, M., Sarkar, A. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Darmstadt, Germany, July 2011

"Students' Perceptions of the Differences Between Formal and Informal Learning" Boustedt J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In Proceedings of the seventh International Computing Education Research Workshop, Providence, Rhode Island, August 2011.

"A Broader Threshold: Including Skills as well as Concepts in Computing Education" Thomas, L., Boustedt, J. Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Sanders, K. and Zander, C. (2012) Fourth Bienniel Conference on Threshold Concepts: From personal practice to communities of practice, Trinity College, Dublin, 28-29 June 2012. Full Paper in Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy's Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference [e-publication], Editors: Catherine O'Mahony, Avril Buchanan, Mary O'Rourke and Bettie Higgs, January 2014, NAIRTL, Ireland, ISBN: 978-1-906642-59-4, pp 154-158. http://www.nairtl.ie/documents/EPub_2012Proceedings.pdf#page=164

"Threshold Concepts and Threshold Skills in Computing" Sanders, K., Boustedt J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J.E., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In the Proceedings of the eighth International Computing Education Research Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, September 2012.

"Computer Science at School / CS Teacher Education. Koli Working-group report on CS at School" Schulte, C., Dagiene, V., Eckerdal, A., Hornung, M., Jevsikova, T., Peters, A., Sentance, S., Thota, N. In the Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference in Computing Education Research, Finland, November 2012.

"Self-Directed Learning: stories from industry" Sanders, K., Boustedt J., Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J.E., Thomas, L., Zander, C. In the Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference in Computing Education Research, Finland, November 2012.

"Analysing the enacted object of learning in lab assignments in programming education" Eckerdal, A. and Thuné, M. In the proceedings of the 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering conference, Macau, March 2013.

"Can first-year students program yet? A study revisited" Robert McCartney, Jonas Boustedt, Anna Eckerdal, Kate Sanders, Carol Zander. In proceedings of ICER’13, August 12–14, 2013, San Diego, California, USA.

"First Year Computer Science and IT Students' Experience of Participation in the Discipine" Peters, A.-K., Berglund, B., Eckerdal, A. and Pears, A. In the proceedings of the 2014 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering conference, Kuching, Malaysia, April 2014.

"Teaching and learning with MOOCs: Computing academics’ perspectives and engagement" (2014) Eckerdal, A., Kinnunen, P., Thota, N., Nylén, A. Sheard, J, and Malmi, L. In the proceedings of Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2014, Uppsala, Sweden.

"Graduating Students' Designs -- Through a Phenomenographic Lens" Lynda Thomas, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, Carol Zander. In proceedings of ICER’14, 2014, Glasgow, UK.

"MOOCs and their Impact on Academics". Judy Sheard, Neena Thota, Anna Eckerdal, Päivi Kinnunen, Lauri Malmi and Aletta Nylén. In the proceedings of Koli Calling, November 2014.

"Learning Practice and Theory in Programming Education. Students’ Lived Experience" Berglund, A. and Eckerdal, A. In the proceedings of the 2015 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering conference, Taipei, MalaysiaTaiwan, April 2015.

"On the bimodality in an introductory programming course. An analysis of student performance factors" Höök, J. and Eckerdal, A. In the proceedings of the 2015 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering conference, Taipei, MalaysiaTaiwan, April 2015.

"Competencies for Paradigm Shift Survival" Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, Tony Clear, Anna Eckerdal, Mats Lind, Roger McDermott, Aletta Nylén. (2015) IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, El Paso, USA.

"Multidimensional analysis of Creative Coding MOOC forums - a methodological discussion." Aletta Nylén, Neena Thota, Anna Eckerdal, Päivi Kinnunen, Matthew Butler, Michael Morgan. In the proceedings of Koli Calling International Conference in Computing Education Research, Koli, Finland, November 2015.

"Second Year Computer Science and IT Students’ Experience of Participation in the Discipline" Anne-Kathrin Peters, Arnold Pears, Anders Berglund and Anna Eckerdal. In the proceedings of Koli Calling International Conference in Computing Education Research, Koli, Finland, November 2015.

Contributions in Books

Utbildningsvetenskap 2005 - resultatdialog och framatblick. Vetenskapsradets rapportserie 13:2005 "Att lära sig datavetenskap". Berglund, A. och Booth, S. och Boustedt, J. och Eckerdal, A. och Thune', M.

"Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: a multi-national empirical investigation" Zander, C. Boustedt, J. Eckerdal, A., McCartney, R., Moström, J. E., Ratcliff, M., Sanders, K. In Meyer, J. and Land R. (Eds) Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, Sense Publishers in Rotterdam and Taipei, 2008.

"Threshold concepts in computer science: an ongoing empirical investigation." Lynda Thomas, Jonas Boustedt, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Jan Erik Moström, Kate Sanders, and Carol Zander. In Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer, and Caroline Baillie, editors, Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2010.

Reports

"On the understanding of Object and Class". Institutionen för informationsteknologi (ed.) - Uppsala University, 2004 - (Technical Reports from the Department of Information Technology, ISSN 1404-3203; 2004-058)

"Cause for alarm?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs." Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Josh Tenenberg, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, Alvaro Monge, Jan Erik Moström, Kris Power, Mark Ratcliffe, Antony Robins, Dean Sanders, Leslie Schwartzman, Beth Simon, Carol Stoker, Allison Elliot Tew, Tammy VanDeGrift. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2004.

"Ways of Thinking and Practising in Introductory Programming". Institutionen för informationsteknologi (ed.) - Uppsala University, 2009 - 002 (Technical Reports from the Department of Information Technology)

Dissemination of results outside the research community

"On the understanding of Object and Class", A. Eckerdal. Phenomenography and Variation Theory Go to School. SIG 9 Mini-Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2004. Oral presentaion, peer review.

"Begreppsförståelse i undervisningen. Att använda fenomenografi och variationsteori", J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal. Forskning pågår. An in-service training day for teachers on educational related research. Uppsala, Sweden, November 2004. Oral presentation, peer review.

"Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: a multi-national empirical investigation", J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, McCartney, R., Moström, J. E., Ratcliff, M., K. Sanders, Zander, C. Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines Symposium Glasgow, UK, 30 August - 1 September 2006. Oral presentaion, peer review.

"Disseminating phenomenography: Workshops for the computing education research community", Berglund, A., Box, I., Eckerdal, A., Lister, R., Pears, A. EARLI SIG 9 Workshop on Phenomenography and Variation Theory in Kristianstad, Sweden, May 2008. Oral presentaion, peer review.

"The delicate art of connecting theory and practise: a variation theory study", Eckerdal, A. and Berglund, A. First Swedish Research Link Symposium, Hong Kong December 2009. Oral presentaion, peer review.

"Theory and practice in lab work - a complex interplay" Eckerdal, A. and Thuné, M. The EARLI SIG 9 Phenomenography and Variation Theory Conference, 27-28 August 2012, University of Jönköping, Sweden. Oral presentaion, peer review.

"Time extended learning in computer programming: a phenomenographic perspective" Anna Eckerdal. The EARLI SIG 9 Phenomenography and Variation Theory Conference, September 1-3, 2014, Regent's Park College, Oxford University. Oral presentaion, peer review.

Conference contributions, oral presentation

"Resources for Learning Object-Oriented Programming", A. Eckerdal. First Workshop of the IEEE Education Society Nordic Chapter, Uppsala, Sweden 2003. Oral presentation.

"Resources for Learning Object-Oriented Programming", A. Eckerdal. Oral presentation at Doctoral Consortium at the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, March 2004. Oral presentation, peer review.

"Learning object-oriented programming in a context", A. Eckerdal. Oral presentation at Doctoral Consortium at SIGCSE 2005, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri USA. 23-27 februari 2005, peer review.

"Learning object-oriented programming. Ways of Thinking and Practicing.", A. Eckerdal. Oral presentation at Doctoral Consortium at SIGCSE 2006, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas USA. 1-5 mars 2006, peer review.

"Novice students entering the Computer Science culture", A. Eckerdal. Oral presentation at Doctoral Consortium at SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky USA, 7-10 mars 2007, peer review.