Dissemination and Funding

The following is a set of my publications, presentations and grants starting in July 2015 with my tenure-track teaching role.
Note: some of the presentations below are discussed on the Education Research Community Participation page but are listed here as well for completeness and to provide a consolidated view.
For my prior publications and presentations see my full Curriculum Vitae.

Publications

  • Devathasan, K., Kepler, J., Warawa, J., Penney, A., Tsui, I., Berg, C., PrairieLearn in CS1: An Experience Report, In Proceedings of the 25th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 10, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593342.3593344
  • Devanthasan, K., Berg, C., Damian, D., The Role of Abstraction in Introductory Programming, in the Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on SPLASH-E, pp. 7-13, November 2022. Available: ACM Digital Library, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563767.3568125.
  • Acton, D. and Berg, C., Workshop on Electronic Grading (workshop). In the Proceedings of the Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’19), ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 17, 2019. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3314994.3325075.
  • Allen, M., Berg, C., Dawson, J. and Leveridge, N., Insights from the Application of Universal Design Principles to Support English Language Learners. In the Proceedings of the Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’18), ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 10, 2018. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3209635.3209646.
  • Berg, C., Integrating web-based programming practice tools with pre-lecture screencasts to enable higher-orders of reasoning within a flipped classroom (poster), Science Education Open House, University of British Columbia, Mar 2017.
  • Demello, J., Lin, Y., Rothwell, A., Sangha, J., Yoo, J., Zhu, A. and Berg, C., Negotiation to improve second language acquisition applied to a computer science tutorial (poster), Science Education Open House, University of British Columbia, Mar 2017.
  • Berg, C., From buds to Bloom’s: A proposal for growing strong students. In the Proceedings of the 21st Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 22, 2016. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2910925.2910947.

Presentations and Panels

  • (Aug 2023) Presentation – Berg, C., “Computer-based assessments with PrairieLearn”, From Stress to Success Speaker Series, Let’s Talk About Teaching 2023, Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation – University of Victoria.
  • (May 2023) Presentation – Berg, C., PrairieLearn in CS1: An Experience Report, In Proceedings of the 25th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’23).
  • (Aug 2020) Presentation – Berg, C., “CSC 110 – Online offering”, From Stress to Success Speaker Series, Faculty of Engineering and Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation – University of Victoria.
  • (Aug 2020) Presentation – Berg, C., “Adding points of synchronization to asynchronous content delivery”, Let’s Talk About Teaching 2020, Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation – University of Victoria.
  • (Nov 2019) Panelist – “Mentoring of Faculty and Graduate Students”, ACM Canadian Celebration Of Women In Computing (CAN-CWIC).
  • (May 2019) Co-presentation – Acton, D. and Berg, C., “Workshop on Electronic Grading”, Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’19).
  • (Oct 2018) Presentation – Berg, C., Mahmood, F., “Bridging the Gap for At-Risk Cohorts: Experimenting with English Language Learners”, SPLASH-E (held in conjunction with conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH)).
  • (May 2018) workshop – Berg, C., Mahmood, Fatimah., “English language meets programming language in an introductory computer science course”, The 14th Annual Learning Conference – Creating Space for Learning, University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus.
  • (May 2018) Co-presentation – Allen, M., Berg, C., Dawson, J. and Leveridge, N., “Insights from the Application of Universal Design Principles to Support English Language Learners”,  Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’18), May 2018.
  • (May 2017) Abstract presentation, “Technological Advances Driving the Evolution of Teaching Practices. Do These Practices Engage Every Learner?” 13th Annual Learning Conference:  Engaging Every Learner, Centre for Teaching & Learning, University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus.
  • (Mar 2017) poster presentation, co-presented with Undergraduate Teaching Assistants, “Negotiation to improve second language acquisition applied to a computer science tutorial”, Jordan Demello, Yuchen Lin, Austin Rothwell, Jiwan Sangha, James Yoo, Amy Zhu and Celina Berg, Science Education Open House, University of British Columbia.
  • (Mar 2017) poster presentation,  “Integrating web-based programming practice tools with pre-lecture screencasts to enable high-orders of reasoning within a flipped classroom”, Science Education Open House, University of British Columbia.
  • (May 2016) Paper presentation, “From buds to Bloom’s: A proposal for growing strong students”, Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE ’16), May 2016.

Grants

  • (2023) ~$2,200 UVic LTSI grant to support integration of PrairieLearn into first year programming courses.
  • (2017) ~$6,000 Project integrating programming tool into APSC 160.  Funding to support:
    • 2 part-time summer undergraduate research assistants for development
  • (2016) ~$7,500  Project developing programming practice tool.  Funding to support:
    • full-time summer undergraduate research assistant for development
    • travel cost for dissemination at WCCCE 2016