Staff
Prof Elizabeth Burd, BEd CNAA MSc DPhil PhD FHEA SMIEEE
(email at liz.burd@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Professor Elizabeth Burd teaches Software Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at Durham University and holds a chair in ICT in the School of Education. She also has University-wide remit for Technology Enhanced Learning, chairs the University Quality Standards Committee and is Dean of the Undergraduate Education. Until recently she was the Director of the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning – Active Learning in Computing (ALiC).
Liz leads Durham's Technology Enhanced Learning Research Group which consists of around 20 research staff and students. Her research interests are in computing education. She has received around £7 million in funding in this area in the last 10 years. She currently has a £1.5 million pound grant funded through the EPSRC/ESRC as part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme that focus on investigating the use of new computing technologies to support education. In addition, she is project champion for the IEEE creation of the new site TryComputing.org ($340k, IEEE New Initiatives funding) which is to encourage pre-university students to study computing.
Liz has a number of professional responsibilities including IEEE Computer Society Vice-President for Educational Activities, IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and Chair of the IEEE Pre-University Education Committee. Liz also participates in of the Learning Development Group of the CPHC and the Steering Committee of the Higher Education Academy Information and Computing Subject Network.
Research Groups
Research Projects
Research Interests
- Assessment for Learning
- Computing Education
- Software Visualisation
- Technology Enhanced Learning
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Alagha, I. & Burd, L. (2013). Knowledge Puzzle: A Browsing Tool to adapt the Web Navigation Process to the Learner's Mental Model. Journal of Educational Technology & Society
- Alhosban, F. & Burd, E.L. (2012). Aural Instruction with Visualization in E-Learning. Frontiers in Education (October ).
- Basheri, M. & Burd, E.L. (2012). Collaborative Software Design using Multi-touch Tables. Frontiers in Education (October).
- Smith, S.P., Burd, E.L. & Rick, J. (2012). Development, Evaluation and Deployment of Multi-touch Systems. Special issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 70: 653-655.
- Higgins, S., Mercier, E., Burd, E. & Joyce-Gibbons, A. (2012). Multi-touch tables and collaborative learning. British Journal of Educational Technology 43(6): 1041-1054.
- Cummins, S., Burd, L. & Hatch, A. (2011). Investigating shareable feedback tags for programming assignments. Computer Science Education 21(1): 81-103.
- Higgins, S., Mercier, E., Burd, E. & Hatch, A. (2011). Multi-touch tables and the relationship with collaborative classroom pedagogies: A synthetic review. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 6(4): 515-538.
- Burd, E.L., Hatch, A., Ashurst, C. & Jessop, A. (2009). Building project management communities: exploring the contribution of patterns supported by web 2.0 technologies. Computer Science Education 19(4): 257–272.
- Shaw, S. C., Goldstein, M., Munro, M. & Burd, E. (2003). Moral dominance relations for program comprehension. IEEE transactions on software engineering 29(9): 851-863.
- Burd E. & Munro, M. (2000). Using evolution to evaluate reverse engineering technologies mapping the process of software change. Journal of systems and software 53(1): 43-51.
Conference papers
- Mercier, E., Higgins, S. & Burd, E. (2011), Interdisciplinary design research: developing educational technology, 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction. Exeter.
- Smith, S.P., Burd, E.L., Ma, L., Alagha, I. & Hatch, A. (2011), Relative and Absolute Mappings for Rotating Remote 3D Objects on Multi-Touch Tabletops, 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2011). Newcastle, England.
- Alagha, I., Burd, E., Higgins, S. & Mercier, E. (2011), SynergyNet Exploring Design and Pedagogy in a Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, in Spada, H., Stahl, G., Miyake, N. & Law, N. eds, Vol. III - Community Events Proceedings: 9th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011). Hong Kong, China, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 1081-1082.
- Foster, C, Burd, L & Hatch, A (2010), Exploring concepts collaboratively: considering how Wii interact, in Santucci, G eds, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI '10. ACM New York, NY, USA, 423.
- Bailey, J & Burd, E. L. (2005), Tree-map visualization for web accessibility, 2: 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05). Edinburgh, Scotland, IEEE, Los Alamitos, California, 6.
Edited works: conference proceedings
- Bailey, J.O & Burd, E.L (2007). Towards More Mature Web Maintenance Practices for Accessibility. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution, Paris, France, IEEE.
- Bailey, J. & Burd, L. (2006). What is the current state of web accessibility?. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution, Philadelphia, PA, USA, IEEE.
- Looker, N., Burd, L., Drummond, S., Xu, J. & Munro, M. (2005). Pedagogic data as a basis for Web service fault models. IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE'05), Beijing, PRC, IEEE Computer Society.
- Bailey, J. & Burd, L. (2005). Web accessibility evolution in the United Kingdom. Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Web Site Evolution, Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society Press.
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