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Developing a Computer Science Education Community of Practice for Early-Career Academics in the UK

Tom Crick Orcid Logo, James H. Davenport, Alan Hayes, Alastair Irons, Tom Prickett

Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3456565.3460059

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The early career of a computer science (CS) academic in the UK is increasingly challenging in terms of balancing research aspirations, learning and teaching responsibilities, wider academic service commitments, alongside their own professional development. The quality of development for an early-car...

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Published in: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2
ISBN: 9781450383974 978-1-4503-8397-4/21/06
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2021
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