Lecia Barker
Location: (Austin, TX)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details.php?PersonID=129
Keywords: tacit information learning online, computer science education, educational technologies, computing workforce, under representation in computing, user studies, evaluation, mixed-methods, survey research, discourse analysis, ethnographic research
Posted on: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, Information Systems / Information Science, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
• Studying adoption, uses, development, and implementation of innovative technologies, including search behaviors, digital libraries, lecture video, and specific educational technologies.
• User studies of web environments in which users implicitly learn concepts (implicitly: limited awareness that they are participating in a learning task)
• Understanding recruitment, retention, and advancement issues for under-represented groups in computing education and professional careers.
• Study of social aspects of computer science education (higher education).
