This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP TC 3 Open Conference on Computers in Education, OCCE 2021, held in Tampere, Finland, in August 2021.
The 22 full papers and 2 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers discuss key emerging topics and evolving practices in the area of educational computing research. They are organized in the following topical sections: Digital education across educational institutions; National policies and plans for digital competence; Learning with digital technologies; and Management issues.
Digital education across educational institutions.- An Integrated Model
of Digitalisation-Related Competencies in Teacher Education.- Primary
Education Student Teachers Perceptions of Computational Thinking through
Bebras Tasks.- Programming Concepts in Lower Primary Years and their
Cognitive Demands.- Literacy from Python Using Python for a Proposed
Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning Model.- Advocating for Educational
Support to Develop Socially Disadvantaged Young Peoples Digital Skills and
Competencies: Can Support Encourage their Human Development as Digital
Citizens?.- Developing Inclusive Digital Pedagogies: Reflections on the Past,
the Present and Future Directions.- Students Conceptions of Programming in
the Context of Game Design.- A Closer Look at
and Confirmation of the General and Study Interests of Future Computer
Science Students.- Starter Projects in Python Programming Classes.- National
policies and plans for digital competence.- Computer Education in Australia
Fifty Years Ago.- Computational Thinking Forces Shaping Curriculum and
Policy in Finland, Sweden and the Baltic Countries.- Changing Computer
Curricula in Australia.- Development of IPSJ Data Science Curriculum
Standard.- Proof of Concept Teaching for 21st Century Digital Literacy in
Portugal: A Pedagogical Approach Towards a New Educational Model.- Use of
Vclass in Mathematics Education Delivery: The UEW Experience.- Needs and
Challenges of Smart Agriculture and Entrepreneurship Education A Case Study
by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.-
Learning with digital technologies.- Vocational Education during School
Shutdown - A Danish Case on Emergency Remote Teaching.- Analysis of Practical
Examples of a Real-time Online Class on Agriculture in Space, Using the
Collaborative Learning Tool Digital Diamond Mandala Matrix.- AsTRA An
Assessment Tool for Recognition and Adaptation of Prior Professional
Experience and Vocational Training.- Is It Real? Learners Perceptions on
Tele-immersive 3D Video Technology and its Further Use in K-12 Education.-
DigiFit4All Conceptualisation of a Platform to Generate Personalised Open
Online Courses (POOCs).- Management issues.- What Kind of E-assessment
Feedback is Important to Students? An Empirical Study.- Shifting to a
Technology-Driven Work Mode: Workplace Learning and Dynamic Capability in the
Case of a Public-Sector Service Organisation.- Digital Transformation of
Education and Learning through Information Technology in Educational
Management.
