Recursion vs Iteration: Activity-Sensitive differences across Use-Modify-Create Tasks in CS1

(Ellen Yue Daetz, Louise Meier Carlsen, Claus Brabrand)

ICER 2026, To Appear, 2026

 

 

 

Program Decomposition

Transforming Code Patterns into Procedural Abstractions: An Empirical Study of De-com-po-si-tion

(Georginana Haldeman, Claus Brabrand, Paul Denny)

ITiCSE 2026, To Appear, 2026

 

 

 

Programming before vs after AI

Computing Education when Writing Code is no longer the Challenge

(Ibrahim Albluwi, Dennis Bouvier, Claus Brabrand, Michelle Craig, Rodrigo Duran, Chris Hundhausen, Colleen Lewis, Kevin Lin, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Leo Porter, Karen Reid, David H. Smith IV, Claudia Szabo, Titus Winters, Daniel Zingaro)

Communication of the ACM, To Appear, 2026

 

 

 

Talk by Barbara Ericson

Getting Students to Think While Learning to Program in the Age of Generative AI

Talk by Barbara Ericson, Friday the 13th (of March), 2026 at ITU.

 

 

 

Talk by Mark Guzdial

Changing Computing To Make It “For All”

Talk by Mark Guzdial, Friday the 13th (of March), 2026 at ITU.

 

 

 

Interviewees in Study

Programming's Place in Higher Education through Educator and Institutional Perspectives

(Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Louise Meier Carlsen, Claus Brabrand)

EDUCON 2026, Cairo, Egypt, 2026

 

 

 

PhD Defence: Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen

Sebastian successfully defended his PhD and is now Dr. Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen

PhD defence, Friday the 13th (of March), 2026

 

 

 

ICSE 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Claus Brabrand with the delegation from the Federal Uni. of Pernambuco)

Attending the ICSE 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026

(Apr 14-17, 2026)

 

 

 

What is Programming? ...and What is Programming in the Age of AI?

(Talk at Federal Uni. of Pernambuco by Claus Brabrand)

(Feb 11, 2026)

 

 

Use-Modify-Create turned "Upside-Down" by AI: Towards Higher-Level Competencies via the Scientific Method

(Claus Brabrand, Sue Sentance)

ICSE/SEET 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026

 

 

 

What is Programming? ...and What is Programming in the Age of AI?

(Talk at University of Auckland, NZ by Claus Brabrand)

(Dec 12, 2025)

 

 

Learning in the Age of AI & Zipped Teaching Format

(Two talks at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) by Claus Brabrand)

(Dec 04, 2025)

 

 

Programming process

What does it mean to Program in the Age of AI?

(Claus Brabrand)

Dagstuhl Seminar 25311, Dagstuhl 2025

 

 

 

"Andy’s Axe" as a Guiding Principle for our Stance on AI-in-Education (for Computing)

(Ibrahim Albluwi, Dennis Bouvier, Claus Brabrand, Michelle Craig, Rodrigo Duran, Chris Hundhausen, Kevin Lin, Leo Porter, Karen Reid, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, David H. Smith IV, Claudia Szabo, Shubbhi Taneja, Michel Wermelinger, Titus Winters, Daniel Zingaro)

Dagstuhl Seminar 25311, Dagstuhl 2025

 

 

 

Prompt First, Precision Later: Reviving the Vision of Natural Language Programming for Computing Education

(Brent Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Claus Brabrand)

Koli Calling 2025

Paper

 

 

 

How to make CS appeal to a broader range of students & Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities & Impact

(Two talks for Brazilian educational leadership delegation by Claus Brabrand)

(Oct 31, 2025)

 

 

Map of the World

Temporal Correlation between Women studying Computing & Human Development Index (30 years of data)

(Louise Meier Carlsen, Maria Stisen Flyger, Josefine Marie Andersen, Nanna Inie, Claus Brabrand)

Frontiers in Education (FIE 2025), Nashville, TN, USA

Paper

 

 

 

Research Visit: Karsten Lundqvist

(Karsten Lundqvist visits CCER)

(Oct 2025)

 

 

 

What is Programming? ...and What is Programming in the Age of AI?

(Invited talk by Claus Brabrand at CatedraEuropa 2026 at UniNorte in Barranquilla, Colombia)

(Oct 02, 2025)

 

 

 

From Lecture-Based to Zipped Teaching Format

(Invited talk by Claus Brabrand at SIPECO 2025 at UniNorte in Barranquilla, Colombia)

Talk (starts at: 50'27"; in Spanish/Portuguese, aka Portañol)

(Oct 02, 2025)

 

 

 

Dagstuhl Seminar 25311 on Generative AI in Programming Education

(Claus Brabrand attended Dagstuhl Seminar 25311 on Generative AI in Programming Education)

(July 27 - August 01, 2025)

 

 

 

Radio Interview on Impact of AI-in-Education

(Radio interview with Claus Brabrand at CatedraEuropa 2026 at UniNorte in Barranquilla, Colombia)

Radio Interview (22 min)

(Oct 02, 2025)

 

 

 

Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen awarded EliteForsk Travel Stipend 2025)

EliteForsk Travel Stipend2025: 200,000 DKK (≈ 27,000 EUR)

(Feb 25, 2025)

Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen visits U. Cambridge

(March - May, 2025)

Panel Debate on AI in Programming

(Panel Debate with Claus Brabrand at Rold Skov, Aalborg University)

(Aug 19, 2025)

 

 

 

Experiences on How to make Computing Education appeal to a broader range of Students

(Invited talk by Claus Brabrand at Aalborg University's CS Dept's Annual Retreat)

(Aug 19, 2025)

 

 

 

Expert Panel

(Claus Brabrand served on the Expert Panel for Evaluating SDU Software Engineering educational programme)

(May 19, 2025)

 

 

Thesis Presentation Seminar 2025

(Ellen Yue Daetz, Olivia Høyer Moesgaard, Mathilde Julie Gonzalez-Knudsen, Emilie Kold Ruskjær, Lukas Andersson, Niels Christian Skov Faber, Oliver Asger Sharp-Johansen presenting their BSc/MSc Thesis work)

(Apr 11, 2025)

 

 

CACM

What is Programming? ...and What is Programming in the Age of AI?

(Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Claus Brabrand)

Communications of the ACM, Vol 68(6), 2025.

Paper

 

 

 

The four (weekly) themes of the four-week Microworld project at the end of CS1.

Circle of Life: Microworld Project at the end of CS1

(Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Michael E. Caspersen, Claus Brabrand)

To appear, SIGCSE-TS 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Paper

 

 

 

Feminism in PL

A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design

(Talk by Felienne Hermans, Open U. Amsterdam)

(Oct 2, 2024)

Talk

UC Berkeley

Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen visits UC Berkeley

(August - December, 2024)

Brett Becker talk

Generative AI in the Computing Classroom: Symptoms and (Possible) Antidotes

(Talk at CCER by Brett Becker)

(May 30, 2024)

Advisory Board Meeting

CCER Advisory Board meeting

(Amy J. Ko, Mark Guzdial, Michael Caspersen, Brett Becker, Claus Brabrand)

(May 29, 2024)

Leadership Course

Academic Leadership Development Course

(Participation in Academic Leadership Course taught by Prof. Austen Rainer & Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick)

(May 22-24, 2024)

Brazilian Visit

ITU/CS/CCER & Diversity in Computing

(Talk by Claus Brabrand for Brazilian Rector Delegation visiting Denmark)

(Apr 11, 2024)

VUA

Experiences on How to make CS Education appeal to a broader range of Students

(Talk by Claus Brabrand at Vrije U. Amsterdam, NL)

(Mar 20, 2024)

Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education

Programming education across disciplines: a nationwide study of Danish higher education

(Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Sofie Kramshøi Nielsen, Louise Meier Carlsen, Claus Brabrand)

Higher Education, 2024.

Paper

 

 

 

Visualizing the Conceptual Framework of Object Orientation. Modeling the reality in code.

Visualizing the Conceptual Framework of Object Orientation for Novices Programmers

(Jakob Staugaard, Jens Bennedsen, Christoph Seidl, Sebastian Nicolajsen, Mathias Fink, Claus Brabrand)

FIE 2024, Washington DC, DC, USA.

Paper

 

 

 


Invisible Women in IT: Examining Gender Representation in K-12 ICT Teaching Materials

Invisible Women in IT: Examining Gender Representation in K-12 ICT Teaching Materials

(Ingrid Maria Christensen, Melissa H. Marcher, Nanna Inie, Claus Brabrand)

ICER 2024, Melbourne, Australia.

Paper

The Robots are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education
 (Brett Becker, University College Dublin)

CCER & Computer Science Lectures at IT University of Copenhagen.

(Feb 8, 2024)

Many colorful post-it on a wall with lots of ideas written and drawn on them

Teaching Participatory Design

(Vincenzo D’Andrea, Betsy DiSalvo, Giacomo Poderi, Jesper Simonsen)

In: Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design, Routledge, 2024

Paper

Young man making a presentation at a meeting

Learning in Unaccredited Internship as Developing Interns' 'Horizontal Expertise'

(Jelena Popov)

Vocations and Learning, Vol. 17, 2024

Paper

2 females sitting together with a laptop, back to camera and laptop in focus

Teachers’ Knowledge and Capacity for Using Digital Resources in Mathematics Education

(Hoyos, V., Silverman, J., Carlsen, L.M., Lee, A.)

In: Pepin, B., Gueudet, G., Choppin, J. (eds) Handbook of Digital Resources in Mathematics Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham, 2023.

Paper

female teacher in yellow shirt with laptop working

Designing activities for CAS-based student work realising the lever potential

(Louise Carlsen)

Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 16, 1-19, 2023.

Paper

Kings College London

Experiences on How to make CS Education appeal to a broader range of Students

(Talk by Claus Brabrand at Kings College, London, UK)

(Oct 16, 2023)

Hedy Programming Language

Non-English Programming with Hedy

(Talk by Felienne Hermans, Open U. Amsterdam)

(Aug 31, 2023)

programming under the influence data sheet

Programming under the Influence: On the Effect of Heat, Noise, and Alcohol on Novice Programmers

(Claus Brabrand, Nanna Inie, Paolo Tell)

Journal of System & Software.

Paper

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Feedback on Student Programming Assignments: Teaching Assistants vs Automated Assessment Tool

(Nynne Grauslund Kristiansen, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, and Claus Brabrand)

Koli Calling 2023.

Paper

3 students sitting at a table, 2 male and 1 female. 1 male at computer, 1 man drinking coffee, 1 female smiling and is wearing sunglasses

Gender Differences in the Group Dynamics of Smaller CS1 Project Groups

(Bjørn Hjorth Westh, Nanna Inie, Louise Barkhuus, and Claus Brabrand)

FIE 2023, College Station, Texas, USA, 2023.

Paper

Designing Participatory AI: Creative Professionals’ Worries and Expectations about Generative AI
(Nanna Inie, Jeanette Falk, Steven Tanimoto)

CHI 2023.

 

Aiki - Challenges and Opportunities of Using Redirection of Activity for Self-Regulation Online
(Nanna Inie, Bjørn Hjorth Westh, John Henrik Muller, Mircea Filip Lungu)

CHI 2023.

Paper - to be uploaded

 

hand beneath creatively written letters

Design principles for higher education teacher development - the Teknosofikum course/concept

(Magda Pischetola, Jeppe Kilberg Møller)

Tidsskriftet Læring og Medier (LOM#27), 2023

Paper

Seminar: Changing Introductory Programming
February, 2023

(Louise Meier Carlsen, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Claus Brabrand)

This seminar examines a major rework of Introductory Programming (B-SWU) and discusses the implications of those changes from both student and teacher perspectives. Sebastian details the changes implemented and an analysis of the outcome in terms of student feedback, observations, and grades.

Paper in development. 

Slides

Talk: How to make Computing Education appeal to a broader range of students
December, 2022

Claus Brabrand was invited to give a talk on diversity at the CS Education Research: Content, Pedagogy, Inclusion conference at the Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv/Ra’anana.  

Watch Claus Brabrand's talk which starts at 1h44’ (to 2h35’). 

4 adults sitting at table working on an activity of sorts and discussing

Enhancing teacher collaboration in higher education: the potential of activity-oriented design for professional development
(Magda Pischetola, Jeppe Kilberg Møller, Lone Malmborg)

Springer - Education and Information Technologies, 2022

Paper

abstract explosion of thoughts out of a persons head, drawing

Materializing the abstract: Understanding AI by game jamming
(Jeanette Falk, Nanna Inie)

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022

Paper

On the Effect of Onboarding Computing Students without Programming- Confidence or -Experience
(Pawel Grabarczyk, Sebastian Mateos Nicolajsen, Claus Brabrand)

Koli Calling 2022

Paper

Student Perspectives on On-site versus Online Teaching throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Björn Thór Jónsson, Magda Pischetola, Nanna Inie, Mats Daniels, Claus Brabrand)

Frontiers in Education (FIE 2022)

Paper

Computing Educational Programmes with more Women are more about PEOPLE & less about THINGS
(Pawel Grabarczyk, Alma Freiesleben, Amanda Bastrup, Claus Brabrand)

ACM ITiCSE, 2022

Paper

A white open spaced library

Designing for the materialization of networked learning spaces
(Magda Pischetola, Mette Wichmand, Rasmus Hall, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld)

Thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning NLC, 2022

Paper

row of lightbulbs hanging

How Researchers Manage Ideas
(Nanna Inie, Jonas Frisch, Peter Dalsgaard)

C&C '22: Creativity and Cognition

Paper

2 young boys from brazil having fun, 1 sticking his tongue out

Affect as future-making pedagogy: A post-qualitative inquiry in Brazilian primary schools
(Paula Albuquerque, Magda Pischetola)

Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2022

Paper

panel discussion with 5 people woman speaking

"Increasing Diversity in IT" Session at Digital Tech Summit 2021
November 30, 2021

Claus Brabrand and Melissa Høegh Marcher were invited to this year's Digital Tech Summit. They attended the session "Increasing Diversity in IT", where Claus held a talk on the research done in CCER, followed by talks from CEO of IT-Branchen, Natasha Friis Saxberg, and CEO of Fujitsu Denmark, Søren Rinnow Østergaard. The session ended with a panel debate with all four attendants.

Photo: DIREC

A sci-fi-like image in neon colors, a swirl or tornado shape

Re-imagining Digital Technology in Education through Critical and Neo-materialist Insights
(Magda Pischetola)

Digital Education Review, 2021

Paper

A computer, a book and a cup of coffee on a round table

Interacting with academic readings — A comparison of paper and laptop
(Nanna Inie, Louise Barkhuus, Claus Brabrand)

Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2021

Paper

Side of a ship with numbers on it indicating depth, a reflection in the water

Developing Evaluation Metrics for Active Reading Support
(Nanna Inie, Louise Barkhuus)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 2021

Paper
2 young women talking at a whiteboard, they seem to be planning something

Teaching Novice Teachers to Enhance Learning in the Hybrid University
(Magda Pischetola)

Springer, 2021

Paper

Asian an with glasses working with pen and paper on the floor, behind him other people

Teaching Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Active Pedagogy in a Deweyan Perspective

(Magda Pischetola, Luiza de Souza e Silva Martins)

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, DOI, 2021

Paper

Three +1 Perspectives on Computational Thinking
(Sebastian M. Nicolajsen, Magda Pischetola, Pawel Grabarczyk, Claus Brabrand)

Koli Calling, 2021

Paper

teknosofikum logo

Teacher professional development in higher education and the Teknosofikum project
(Magda Pischetola)

Learning Tech - Tidsskrift for læremidler, didaktik og teknologi (10), 2021

 




Aiki - Turning Online Procrastination into Microlearning
(Nanna Inie, Mircea Filip Lungu)

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021

Paper

 

 

DIREC Talk: How Can We Encourage More Women to Study Computer Science?
September 20, 2021

Head of Center, Claus Brabrand, speaks at DIREC talks. The talk centers around the underrepresentation of women in Computer Science and how this is a problem on a societal, institutional and individual level.

 

headline from an article

Article on research from CCER published in Prosabladet
September 3, 2021

Prosabladet features an article based on research by CCER on how to get better gender balance in IT.
 
Article (English) | Article (Danish, p.14-18)

Research film released in 4 languages
November 29, 2021

Over the summer 4 short research videos has been produced in connection with the publication of the two papers mentioned below. The videos are a quick introduction on both papers and prent an overview of some of the result on how 'Computing Educational Activities Involving People Rather Than Things Appeal More to Women.'

american flag English | french flag French | spanish flag Spanish | brazilian flag Portugese

Shorter versions in English: 60'' | 20''

Computing Educational Activities Involving People Rather Than Things Appeal More to Women (CS1 Appeal Perspective)
(Ingrid Maria Christensen, Melissa H. Marcher, Pawel Grabarczyk, Therese Graversen, & Claus Brabrand)

ICER, 2021

Paper

Computing Educational Activities Involving People Rather Than Things Appeal More to Women (Recruitment Perspective) 
(Ingrid Maria Christensen, Melissa H. Marcher, Pawel Grabarczyk, Therese Graversen, & Claus Brabrand)

ICER, 2021

Paper

several trees at dawn in an orange glow in the mist

The invisible made visible through technologies’ agency: a sociomaterial inquiry on emergency remote teaching in higher education
(Magda Pischetola, Lyana V. Thédiga de Miranda, Paula Albuquerque)

Learning, Media and Technology,46:4, 390-403, 2021

Paper

sculpture of hand holding tree

Evaluating Academic Reading Support Tools: Developing the aRSX-Questionnaire
(Nanna Inie, Bjørn Hjorth Westh)

Computer Supported Education: 13th International Conference, CSEDU 2021

Paper

"several people perhaps playing or exploring behind a web of strings

Networked Learning in 2021: A Community Definition
(Networked Learning Editorial Collective (NLEC), Gourlay, L.,Rodríguez‐Illera, J. L., Barberà, E., Bali, M., Gachago, D., Pallitt, N., Jones, C., Bayne, S., Hansen, S. B., Hrastinski, S., Jaldemark, J. Themelis, C., Pischetola, M. et al.)

Postdigital Science and Education, 3, 326-369, 2021

Paper

3 women and 1 mand talking at a computer, all smiling

Cultura digital, capital cultural e capital tecnológico: uma análise das práticas pedagógicas no ensino superior
(Daiani Damm Tonetto Riedner, Magda Pischetola)

Eccos - Revista Cientifica, 2021

Paper

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Teaching as the emergent event of an ecological process: Complexity and choices in one-to-one programmes
(Lyana V. Thédiga de Miranda, Magda Pischetola)

Intellect, 2020

Paper

Inauguration event (Official Center Opening) 
November 5, 2020

Thank you all for celebrating our center opening. 

Special Thanks to Michael E. Caspersen, Amy J. Ko and Simon Peyton Jones for their amazing and inspiring talks.

Learn more

head of CCER claus brabrand receiving a price by crown princess Mary of Denmark

Head of the Center, Claus Brabrand, awarded first Danish National Teaching Award
September 30, 2020

The Award was handed over by H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and the Minister of Higher Education and Science to 2 out of more than 18,000 university teachers coming from all disciplines. Each recipient received 500,000 DKK (67,000 EUR).

About Claus Brabrand (in Danish) | Claus Brabrand's homepage

About The Award (in Danish) | House of the Danish Royal Family (in Danish)

Photo: Søren Kjeldgaard