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I'm a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Other ways to pass my time include:

• Diving - as can be seen from the picture - but only very rarely now. Where have all the good buddies gone?
• A cantankerous TR-6 - more fixing than driving, but the sound of a six is never to missed... pictures
• Chairman of the Scottish branch of a personal development organisation - MoreToLife - Scottish site

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Research and Outreach

Curiously, these are combined for me!

Computing Science Inside... - taking Computing Science out to the schools

I have a major grant in theEPSRC's Partnerships for Public Engagement (PPE) programme, taking Computing Science concepts out to school pupils. The project is called Computing Science Inside... - the inside refers our aim of showing the pupils the Computing Science inside the everyday technology they are now surrounded by - such as their mobile phones, the web, gaming machines and so on. Our main website is at http://csi.dcs.gla.ac.uk.

Enhancing teaching and learning with electronic voting systems

My other major research involves the use of technology to enhance face-to-face teaching and learning. This is focussed on the use of Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) in teaching, which enable the kind of Ask The Audience... interaction seen on the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire?" to be used in any group teaching sessions, but most particularly in lectures. These are also known as Group Response Systems (GRS), Personal Response Systems (PRS), handsets, clickers. Such systems are becoming widespread in the public and corporate sectors, and slowly being adopted in education. However, pedagogies surrounding the use of the systems are poorly explored in the current literature.

I have extended personal experience of using the Personal Response System, marketed by GTCO Calcomp Peripherals and extended with software developed by Chris Mitchell and myself, in a wide range of situations. Steve Draper in the Dept of Psychology and I have been identifying a range of general methods of use, each of which has a sound educational underpinning. Further information on work with handsets throughout Glasgow University can be found at the web pages of the Interactive Lectures Interest Group.

Chris Mitchell and I have designed a complete software front end for the PRS, known as QRS, which is available for other PRS users to experiment with. With a design directed by lecturers regularly using the system, QRS has increased flexibility for data presentation and review, and for experimentation with styles of interaction. Go here for more details about QRS.

Selected publications:

• Cutts, Q.I. and Kennedy, G.E., "Connecting Learning Environments Using Electronic Voting Systems", Seventh Australasian Computer Education Conference, Newcastle, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 42, Alison Young and Denise Tolhurst (Eds), 2005 pdf
• Cutts, Q.I., Carbone, A., van Haaster, K., "Using an Electronic Voting System to Promote Active Reflection on Coursework Feedback", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer in Education, Melbourne, Australia, 2004 pdf
• Cutts, Q.I., Kennedy, G.E., Mitchell, C., Draper, S.W., "Maximising dialogue in lectures using Group Response Systems", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Hawaii, 2004 pdf
• Draper, S.W., Cutts, Q.I., Cargill, J. "Electronically enhanced classroom interaction" Australian Journal of Education Technology 18(1), pp 13-23, 2002 pdf
• Cutts, Q.I. "Engaging a Large First Year Class" in Reconstructing Professionalism in University Teaching, Walker, M (Ed.) pp 105-128. Open University Press, 2001 pdf
• Cutts, Q.I., Hosking, A.L., (guest editors) Persistent Object Systems - special edition of Software Practice and Experience (Volume 30), 2000

Recent Seminars/Paper presentations/Workshops/Invited talks

• The Practicalities of Introducing an Electronic Voting System into your Teaching, workshop presented at ALT-C 2004, University of Exeter, 14th September 2004
• Maximising Dialogue in Lectures using Group Response Systems, Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 2004, Hawaii, 17th August 2004
• Reconstructing Professionalism in University Teaching- A cross-disciplinary, collaborative, action research project, Monash University, Melbourne 23rd July 2004
• Using Electronic Voting Systems in Large Group Teaching, University of Canterbury Learning & Teaching Group/Canterbury Teaching Alliance, Christchurch, NZ, 18th June 2004
• Extending Computing Education Research, Keynote presentation, 1st Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle, Monash University, 16th June 2004
• "Ask the Audience..." Increased Interaction. Increased Learning? pdf
  • Australian National University, 30th July 2004
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 28th May 2004
  • Deakin University, Melbourne, 21st May 2004
  • University of Melbourne, 20th May 2004
• "Ask the Audience..." How could increased interaction improve your class?, Monash University, Melbourne, 12th March 2004

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Lecture Courses

1. Level 1: CS-1P
2. Level 4: Professional Skills and Issues PSI4/M

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