Didactics
The Didactics research group at the Department of Informatics
About the research group
The Didactics research group at the Department of Informatics is a team of like-minded educators and researchers dedicated to effective and engaging learning within informatics. Our group employs learning design principles and analytics to achieve an effective and inclusive learning environment. We believe that teaching computer science is not just about coding and theories; it's about understanding the experience students are facing, and translating those experiences through research into new forms of teaching.
What is didactics to us?
We take a wide interpretation of the didactics term to cover any situation that requires communication of knowledge we have in computer science to an audience beyond, whether that be
- University courses for students both in CS and outside
- Collaborations with colleagues across the university
- Collborations with schools
- Links to local enterprises, private companies
Master's degree
A Master's degree in informatics with a specialization in computer science communication focuses on the ways in which people learn computer science topics, and how expert knowledge in computer science can be communicated to others. Here, the target audience can be university or school students, teachers, colleagues at informatics and other departments, or a general lay audience.
Two courses that must be taken are the algorithms course INF234, in common with the other informatics master specializations, and our group’s course INFDID210 on computer science didactics, which discusses the foundations of education research in the context of computer science. You can choose the remaining courses from a wide range of other possibilities, to match your interest and project. Courses from outside the informatics department, such as sociology, pedagogy or media studies can be interesting here.
People
Group members
Aleksandr Popov PhD
Crystal Chang Din Associate Professor
David Grellscheid Associate Professor
Torstein J. F. Strømme Associate Professor
Martin Vatshelle Associate Professor
Tyra Fosheim Eide Research Assistant
Hilde Jordal Research Assistant
Contact
Our group is located on the fourth floor of the "Datablokken" of Bergen High Technology Center (Høyteknologisenteret i Bergen).
The street address is Thormøhlens gate 55, 5008 Bergen.