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Lecturer in Computing, C&C
Oli was an experienced teacher of 11-18 Computer Science before moving into Higher Education in 2019. His interests include education, Virtual Reality, IoT, making, physical computing, and many other things.
Howson, Oliver ,(2023). Leveraging Jupyter Notebooks in Assessment Development, Completion and Marking to Reduce Cognitive Load and Minimise Errors. In: I-HE2023: Proceedings of the Innovating Higher Education Conference,, 04-06 Oct 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.
Smith, Cathy, Kathotia, Vinay, Ward-Penny, Robert, Howson, Oli and Wermelinger, Michel ,(2023). Mathematical and Data Literacy: Competencies and curriculum implications at the intersection of mathematics, data science, statistics and computing. The Royal Society.
Howson, Oliver ,(2022). Virtually Learning...Or Not? In: EDULEARN22 Proceedings, 4-6 Jul 2022, Palma, Spain.
Howson, Oliver, Charlton, Patricia, Iniesto, Francisco and Holmes, Wayne ,(2022). INSPIRE: Fourth industrial revolution teaching in the classroom a multi-disciplinary collaboratively designed pilot project. In: 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 4-6 Jul 2022, Palma, Spain.
Howson, Oliver, Charlton, Patricia, Iniesto, Francisco and Holmes, Wayne ,(2022). INSPIRE: Fourth Industrial Revolution Teaching in the Classroom. In: 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2-5 Mar 2022, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Howson, Oliver and Gilardi, Marco ,(2019). Identifying the impact of using Augmented and Virtual Reality in educational contexts. In: Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning, 24-26 Jul 2019, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Howson, Oliver, Adeliyi, Adeola, Willis, Alistair, Hirst, Tony, Charlton, Patricia, Gooch, Daniel, Rosewell, Jonathan, Richards, Mike, Wermelinger, Michel, Piwek, Paul, Savage, Simon, Lowndes, Charly, Thomas, Elaine and Smith, Andrew ,(2020). Best Practices in using Technological Infrastructures. The Institute of Coding.
Bowers, David S. and Howson, Oliver ,(2019). Analysis of accreditation approaches in the Computing sector. The Open University, Milton Keynes.
Howson, Oli ,(2020). An exploration of the impact of augmented and Virtual Reality within compulsory education. In: Daniela, Linda ed. New Perspectives on Virtual and Augmented Reality: Finding New Ways to Teach in a Transformed Learning Environment. Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 95â110.
Bowers, David, Petre, Marian and Howson, Oli ,(2019). Aligning Competence Hierarchies with Bloom's Taxonomies: Changing the focus for computing education. In: Koli Calling '19 Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 21-24 Nov 2019, Koli, Finland.
Learning and Education
Professional Practice
Science and scholarly communication
Urban and Smart living (incl Robotics)