CPHC Learning Development Group

• To provide a focus for addressing teaching and learning issues for the CPHC community
• To identify existing and/or potential actions inside and outside of the CPHC community relevant to these issues.
• To promote networking across the CPHC community in spreading good practice
• To support CPHC related staff in their teaching and learning activities

Forthcoming events and current projects:

• Grand Challenges in Computing Education. Conferences was held in Newcastle (March 2004) and Glasgow (March 2006) to consider the major issues facing us. A BCS publication detailing the outputs of Newcastle is available; this is also published in summary form.

• We keep a watching brief on curricular affairs, which intersect with consequences of the Bologna Declaration; there will be a Conference on this topic (inter alia) on 9th and 10th November 2006. A very successful Computing Curriculum Day was held on October 25 2002. Presentations from Peter Denning, Kruno Hernaut, Andrew McGettrick, Eric Roberts, Judith Scott, are readable.
• Masters benchmarking: this issue is ongoing between CPHC and QAA. An informative workshop, was held in October 2003, which has generated a draft in use by many. Slides from the day and summary of delegates' feedback are readable.
• Ethics in project work: This is an area of growing activity across science and engineering, for a number of reasons. We are actively considering the consequences for CS project work.
Attrition in Computing. We continue to solicit data (anonymised). A workshop was conducted jointly with HEA-ICS September 2004.