UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents


    "A CS Researcher's Journey into Mainstream First-Year Teaching"

                  Professor Alex Shafarenko

       (Compiler Technology and Computer Architecture Group,
                  University of Hertfordshire)


                     21 October 2015  (Wednesday)
                           1 pm -2 pm


                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                      Lecture Theatre LF233

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available

Abstract:

What is a researcher's contribution to teaching? Equipped with a broad
horizon required for a successful career in research, problem-solving
skills, confidence to go into untrodden territories and the ability to
construct complex arguments, what do we, researchers, have to offer to
the teaching side?

These questions are philosophical, but for any specific teaching job
there is a very specific practical answer. I once found myself in charge
of teaching a mainstream subject: Computing Platforms, to first year
undergraduates. Those were the questions I was suddenly faced with.

This talk is a personal story of a teaching project (yes, teaching
can be a project just as well as research). It will touch upon the
challenges, discoveries and satisfaction one derives from what one does
as an academic, i.e. researcher *and teacher*, and will illustrate them
with my recent findings.

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