1. Research Interests and Areas

• Computer Education Exploring issues in making the learning process for computing and IT students more effective and efficient.
  • Check this on-line, dynamic publication database of all CERG publications.
  • PIAVEE Platform Independent Agent-based Virtual Educational Environment. Making development and dissemination of on-line course materials hassle-free. PIAVEE for Dummies is in the course of construction.
  • ICTEd Project An AUTC-funded project to explore and disseminate innovative and/or best practice teaching in Information and Communications Technology.
• Document Technologies XML and Stuff, AxKit
• Literate Programming
  • MonAtar: The Unit Description Avatar This program is a web script that maintains unit description for the Faculty of Information Technology. Users are required to authenticate using the Monash Directory Service, and they can then edit and approve unit descriptions as appropriate. The complete literate program is available on-line.
• Persistent Programming
• Formal Specification
• Computer Systems

2. Potential Projects available

These projects are not classified by level, but could be undertaken at a range of levels: Honours, Masters, Doctorate; depending upon aims and scoping.

3. Recent Publications

1. Avram, C., Carbone, A., Casey, D., Hurst, A.J., Sheard, J.I., Markham, S., Heathcote,V., Sirisuthikul,S.; Perceptions of IT Report, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, 2007
2. Sheard, J., Postema, M., Markham, S. and Hurst, J., Time versus utility: What IT staff say about the educational use of the Web, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2001, Tampere, Finland, June/July 2001.
3. Carbone, A., Mitchell, I., Gunstone, R., Hurst, A.J., Designing Programming Tasks to Elicit Self-management Metacognitive Behaviour, International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2002), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2002.
4. Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tuovinen, J., and Hurst, A.J., Determining Website usage time from interactions: data preparation and analysis, Journal of Educational Technology Systems vol.32, no.1, pp.101-121, 2003.
5. Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tuovinen, J., and Hurst, A.J., Inferring student learning behaviour from website interactions: A usage analysis, Education and Information Technology, vol.8, no.3, pp.245-266, Sep 2003.
6. Hurst, A.J., MonAtar: The Monash Unit Description Avatar , International Conference on Computers in Education, Hong Kong, Dec 2003.
7. Markham, S., Krishnamurthy, S., Casey, D., Hurst, A.J., Chetty, M., PIAVEE - A Pedagogy-Independent Education Environment, International Conference on A Learning and Teaching, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.

4. Recent Seminars

1. Computing Education: What Have We Learnt From Computer Science (and Software Engineering)? Invited address to the 4th Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle, Deakin University, 16 Nov 2007.
2. Preaching The Teaching: Do the Politics and Religion of Teaching Mix? Seminar presented at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Caulfield, on 4 May 2007.
3. XLP: XML-based Literate Programming Seminar presented at the Faculty of Communication and Information Technologies, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, on 25 Nov 2005.
4. Experiences with the Monash Avatar Seminar presented at the Faculty of Communication and Information Technologies, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, on 4 Nov 2005.
5. Peer Review of Teaching Seminar presented at the Caulfield campus of the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Caulfield, on 1 April 2005; subsequently repeated at RMIT, Melbourne, on 20 May 2005.

5. Conference Rankings

See the web page at CORE

6. Research Conduct

The Australian Government has published a document on Research Conduct. Apparently it is important.

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