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Dr Neil Smith's OpenLearn Profile

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Dr Neil Smith

Dr Neil Smith

About me

Dr Neil Smith is a Lecturer in Computing within the Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology at The Open University. 

Dr Neil Smith's research

Neil Smith, Michael Richards and Daniel G. Cabrero (2018-07-02) Summer of Code: Assisting Distance-Learning Students with Open-Ended Programming Tasks, In 23rd Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’18), ACM

Neil Smith et al. (2017-01-16) A Comparison of MOOC Development and Delivery Approaches, Routledge

Neil Smith et al. (2017) A comparison of MOOC development and delivery approaches, In International Journal of Information and Learning Technology 2(34)

Neil Smith, Helen Caldwell and Michael Richards (2016-07) A comparison of MOOC development and delivery approaches, In International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education

Neil Smith et al. (2015-11-09) Master Teachers in Computing: what have we achieved?, In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, ACM

Neil Smith and Helen Caldwell (2015-07) Ubiquitous computing devices in the training of teacher-trainers, In International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE 2015)

Neil Smith, Clare Sutcliffe and Linda Sandvik (2014-03) Code Club: bringing programming to UK primary schools through Scratch, In 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 14), ACM

Fiona French et al. (2014) Designing smart toys for the cognitive enrichment of elephants, In First Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Animal Welfare, Proceedings of the 50th Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

Professor Gerd Kortuem et al. (2013-02) Educating the Internet-of-Things generation, In Computer 2(46)

Peter G. Thomas, Kevin G. Waugh and Neil Smith (2012-04-12) Automatically assessing free-form diagrams in e-assessment systems, In STEM Annual Conference 2012: Aiming for excellence in STEM learning and teaching

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