Research line Education & Learning

The CS department of the Open University is active in research on various topics related to education and learning. Below is a list of the researchers active in these fields, a link to their homepage (when available) and, for each, a list of the topics of his/her expertise.

Erik Barendsen

Learning and teaching

• teaching methodology
• digital literacy
• computational thinking
• pedagogical content knowledge
• context based education

Computing

• modeling
• lambda calculus
• term and graph rewriting
• typing systems
• semantics

Harald Vranken

• Cybersecurity education

Tanja Vos

• Teaching Testing

Bastiaan Heeren

• Intelligent domain-specific exercise assistants
• improving the quality of type error messages

Clara Maathuis

• CS education

Harrie Passier

• Software Quality in Education
• Didactics of Computer Science
• Feedback in e-learning tools

Ebrahim Rahimi

• Teaching methodology

Tim Steenvoorden

• Didactics of teaching formalisation
• Software Architecture
• Design and programming

Sylvia Stuurman

• Design for Change
• Software Architecture
• Design and programming

Niels Doorn

• Test Informed Learning with Examples
• Making sense of software testing for education