SOU-led Computational Thinking team presents papers at AERA

An eight-member team – including two faculty members from the Southern Oregon University Computer Science program – presented five papers at this month’s annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, related to an SOU-led project to teach computational thinking skills to elementary school students. … Continue reading

April 27,2026

Team earns second NSF Grant to promote computational thinking in the classroom

Gladys Krause, William & Mary assistant professor of bilingual and mathematics education, has continued an innovative and successful collaboration with colleagues Maggie Vanderberg, Eva Skuratowicz, and Eping Hung from Southern Oregon University, and with Jill Hubbard from Oregon State University-Cascades. Their consecutive National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, part of the “Computer Science for All” program … Continue reading

May 15, 2023

SOU team gets 2nd NSF grant to work on “computational thinking” curriculum

(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been awarded a three-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to help K-5 teachers develop “computational thinking” skills in the Ashland and Phoenix-Talent school districts. The work will build upon a $299,000 grant SOU was awarded in September 2019 to launch the collaborative research … Continue reading

August 9, 2022

SOU-led team receives NSF grant to develop “computational thinking” model

(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been awarded a two-year, $299,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop the “computational thinking” skills of kindergarten-through-fifth-grade students in the Ashland and Phoenix-Talent school districts. The grant is part of the NSF’s Computer Science for All program, which is intended to extend computer science and computational thinking opportunities … Continue reading

September 9, 2019