Program – F-TRANSFER 2024

Progam updated in 12 February 2024.

9:15-9:30 – Welcome message!
9:30 – 10:30 – Keynote: 45 minutes + 15minutes Q&A:
- Keynote: Prof. Anu Kajamaa, University of Oulu
- Title: Collaborative problem solving and learning in a Change Laboratory: case examples from teacher education and entrepreneurship
- Abstract: Anu Kajamaa (PhD) is professor of education at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses especially on continuous learning, collaboration, and organizational change and development via interprofessional workplace interventions. She is an expert in sociocultural- and practice-based theories, qualitative research methods and participatory intervention techniques, drawing especially from cultural historical activity theory and the Change Laboratory method. Her current research contexts are primary schools, teacher education, prisons, health and social care, and makerspaces, entrepreneurship hubs and other hybrid organizations. In her talk entitled “Collaborative problem solving and learning in a Change Laboratory: case examples from teacher education and entrepreneurship”, she will first explain the principles of the Change Laboratory method, which is a research-assisted method providing a set of instruments for collectively recognizing tensions and contradictions in collective work activities. It also allows redesign and development of collective activity as well as innovating through expansive learning. In this process, the end results of learning are co-designed by the participants as they work out solutions to the developmental contradictions in their activity systems. In her talk, Kajamaa will also present Change Laboratory case examples from a teacher training school and an entrepreneurship hub located in Finland, to illustrate how the method works in practice. The cases demonstrate how tensions, contradictions and boundaries can be turned into drivers for collaborative problem solving, learning and organizational change. The cases also shed light on the demands and challenges of collaborative learning journeys conducted in the increasingly complex working life.
- For more information, please visit: https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/anu-kajamaa

10:30-11:00 coffee break
Session from 11:00-12:00 – (1A) New Ideas papers, Research papers, and Experience reports presentations
- 11:00-11:20: Adriana M. Coroiu, Alina-Delia Calin, Radu Gaceanu and Andreea Vescan, Advancements, Challenges, and Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Academic and Professional Learning
- 11:20-11:40: Anca Ioana Muscalagiu, Stefan-Octavian Custura and Bogdan-Mihai Ioan, Developing Interns into Full-Fledged Software Engineers
- 11:40-12:00- Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Karolos Flamos, Khanak Gulati, Daniel Feitosa, Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, A Comparison of the Effectiveness of ChatGPT and Co-Pilot for Generating Quality Python Code Solutions,
Lunch break 12:00 (12:30) -13:30
Session from 13:00-15:30 – (1B) New Ideas papers, Research papers, and Experience reports presentations
- 13:30-13:50 – Eliza Maria Olariu and Horia Hedesiu, Experience Report on Teaching Distributed Testing bench for Cloud-based Applications
- 13:50-14:10 – Bogdan Iudean, Experience Report on Teaching Parallel and Distributed Programming through Storytelling
- Session from 14:10-15:10 – (2) Essential skills in Computer Science. Collaborative solutions – academia and industry
Closing: 15:10-15:30