Some contemporary or relatively recent articles, studied together, seem to suggest that computer science education is in a state of crisis. But, is it? This article examines the arguments. My preliminary findings is that if you examine the arguments from a positivist stance, you may well infer that there is a crisis, but if you view them from a constructivist perspective, the crisis becomes an ...

Wikis are promoted as collaborative writing tools that allow students to transform a text into a collective document by information sharing and group reflection. However, despite the promising collaborative capabilities of wikis, their pedagogical value regarding collaborative writing is still questionable. Wiki alone cannot make collaborative writing happen, and students do not automatically b...

This paper starts with a survey of different notions of learning, and finds that the “logic” of discovery has been neglected. The paradox of “exploitation” and “ exploration”, derived from the organization literature, is proposed as the core issue. We need to recognize the importance of organization and co-ordination, in learning and innovation. This implies, among other things, that transactio...