Katrina Falkner

Prof Katrina Falkner

Pro Vice Chancellor, Learning and Teaching

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Falkner is Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching & Curriculum Domain Lead for Adelaide University.Formerly Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology at the University of Adelaide, Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences and Head of School of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Professor Falkner leads the Computer Science Education Research Group (CSER), and formerly the Modelling & Analysis Program within the Centre for Distributed and Intelligent Technologies (CDIT) (2011-2021). Professor Falkner has extensive experience in industry consultation, working with DST Group, NICTA, Google US, Google Australia & New Zealand, the Department of Education and Training, and Telstra Foundation, crossing both the areas of Computer Science Education and Distributed Defence Systems. Professor Falkner has attracted over $26 million in government and industry funding to support her research and community work. Her contribution to Computer Science was recognised through her election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2022. Professor Falkner served as the Chair for the University of Adelaide's Transforming Culture Initiative. The Transforming Culture Program is driving a range of initiatives, including the establishment of the University of Adelaide Integrity Unit, that will improve the University’s performance against our values, increase workforce engagement, trust and diversity, and improve confidence in the management of complaints, making it clear that any form of misconduct is not tolerated. Strengthening our culture is a foundational element of the University’s Strategic Plan.Addressing inequities in education and access to technology underpins Professor Falkner’s work. Professor Falkner leads the development of the CSER MOOCs - open online courses for Australian teachers to help prepare them for the Digital Technologies Curriculum, and leads the national CSER Digital Technologies Education Program, designed to support Australian teachers in teaching Computer Science, with an emphasis on supporting young women, low-SES and Indigenous populations - to date, supporting over 45,000 teachers across Australia. This program, funded by a $7.2 million contract through the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training, provides critical support to Australian teachers as they embrace the teaching of Computer Science as a new area, assisting all young Australians to see themselves as Computer Scientists. This approach has now been expanded as part of the Mathematics Massive Open Online Courses and Mathematics Hub project, in collaboration with Education Services Australia.Professor Falkner has contributed to a number of key ICT groups, including the Australian Council of ICT Deans (ACDICT), the ACDICT Learning and Teaching Academy Executive (2011-2012), the Inaugural Australian Computer Society Education Board (2015-2017), the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Digital Technologies Stakeholder Board (2014-present), President of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (2018-2020), and Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (Australasia) (2016-2018).Professor Falkner has received numerous awards for her efforts in Computer Science leadership and education, including 2015 EdTechSA Leader of the Year, 2015 EdTechSA/ International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) ‘Making IT Happen’ Award, an Australian Computing Society (ACS) Gold Award as an ICT Higher Education Educator of the Year (2015), the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) and ACS National Leader of the Year Award (2016), the CORE John Hughes Distinguished Service Award (2017) and was named in The Australian's 2021 list of Australia's top 100 Innovators.

Computer Science Education Research Group

My education research interests range from understanding how we can better teach fundamental computer science and computational thinking skills, to how we can apply computer science to better improve learning and learning environments. I am the leader of the Computer Science Education Research Group (CSER) based in the School of Computer Science. The CSER group aims to promote research and scholarship both within the field of Computer Science Education and more broadly in the Higher Education sector. The goal of CSER is to understand how we can improve the teaching and learning of computing, and how contemporary issues in higher education, such as the use of new technologies can impact upon the teaching and learning environment.

We lead the CSER Digital Technologies Education Program, where we support Australian teachers in developing skill and confidence in the new Digital Technologies learning area and Mathematics, as well as undertaking research into how we scaffold and understand the development of Computational Thinking skills in K-6. 

We also explore how we can use Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval techniques to better support learning, and to better understand how learning occurs within digital learning environments. We explore the development of learning models within digital contexts that support good practice pedagogy, and community-based learning environments.

Current Research Staff 

We are currently seeking PhD student applications for students passionate about Computer Science Education Research. If you are interested, please review these example project descriptions for further details:

Distributed and Intelligent Technologies Group

My discipline research is in the areas of Software Architecture and Distributed Systems, leading the Modelling and Analysis program within the Defence and Intelligent Technologies Group (2011-2021). Within this project we explored techniques for developing accurate performance models for distributed software systems so that we can better understand the Space, Weight and Power (SWaP) constraints of systems operating within constrained environments, including defence environments such as combat management systems, but also other constrained environments such as seen within drone platforms. This work has benefit well outside of the defence space, as can be seen by our recent collaboration with the Ecology and Environmental Science area within the University to explore how we can better create drone environments to support conservation efforts across a range of physical environmental conditions.

In strong collaboration with colleagues based at Australia' Defence Science and Technology Group, we led the development of the MEDEA modelling environment, which supports performance modelling of software systems in early stages of design and development, including the integration of existing software components, and supporting a range of representative hardware platforms, including FPGA, GPU, VM and Cloud-based environments. After a successful 10 years of collaboration, and supporting 3 postdocs, 14 software developers, and many honours, PHD and summer students, we closed our lab in April 2021. More information on our work can be found in our GitHub repository, and in my publications. 

Date Position Institution name
2024 - ongoing Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching & Curriculum Domain Lead Adelaide University
2022 - 2024 Executive Dean, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology University of Adelaide
2021 - 2022 Interim Executive Dean, Faculty of Sciences University of Adelaide
2020 - 2022 Executive Dean, Faculty of ECMS University of Adelaide
2019 - 2020 Interim Executive Dean, Faculty of ECMS University of Adelaide
2018 - 2019 Deputy Dean (Students) University of Adelaide
2017 - ongoing Professor University of Adelaide
2014 - 2017 Head of School University of Adelaide
2013 - 2016 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2009 - 2012 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2009 - 2011 Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) University of Adelaide
2003 - 2008 Lecturer University of Adelaide
2000 - 2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2022 Fellowship Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering ATSE Australia -
2017 Award John Hughes Distinguished Service Award CORE Australia -
2016 Award National Leader of the Year Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) and Australian Computer Society (ACS) Australia -
2015 Award 2015 Gold Award Winner for ACS ICT Higher Education Educator of the Year Australian Computer Society Australia -
2015 Award 2015 EdtechSA/ISTE Making it Happen Award - - -
2015 Award EdTEchSA Leader of the Year Award - - -
2012 Award Endeavour Executive Award - - -
2008 Achievement Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation - - -
2008 Teaching Award Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching - - -
2007 Teaching Award ECMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching - - -
2007 Teaching Award Executive Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching - - -

Year Citation
2024 Chen, F., Nguyen, H. V., Taggart, D. A., Falkner, K., Rezatofighi, S. H., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2024). ConservationBots: Autonomous aerial robot for fast robust wildlife tracking in complex terrains. Journal of Field Robotics, 41(2), 443-469.
DOI Scopus12 WoS10
2024 Athukoralage, D., Atapattu, T., Thilakaratne, M., & Falkner, K. (2024). LT4SG@SMM4H24: Tweets Classification for Digital Epidemiology of Childhood Health Outcomes Using Pre-Trained Language Models.. CoRR, abs/2406.07759.
2022 Atapattu, T., Herath, M., Elvitigala, C., Zoysa, P. D., Gunawardana, K., Thilakaratne, M., . . . Falkner, K. (2022). EmoMent: An Emotion Annotated Mental Health Corpus from two South Asian Countries.. CoRR, abs/2208.08486.
2022 Atapattu, T., Herath, M., Elvitigala, C., de Zoysa, P., Gunawardane, K., Thilakaratne, M., . . . Falkner, K. (2022). EmoMent: An Emotion Annotated Mental Health Corpus from two South Asian Countries. Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING, 29(1), 6991-7001.
Scopus6
2020 Numan, M. W., Phillips, B. J., Puddy, G. S., & Falkner, K. (2020). Towards Automatic High-Level Code Deployment on Reconfigurable Platforms: A Survey of High-Level Synthesis Tools and Toolchains. IEEE ACCESS, 8, 174692-174722.
DOI Scopus39 WoS30
2020 Atapattu, T., Falkner, K., Thilakaratne, M., Sivaneasharajah, L., & Jayashanka, R. (2020). What Do Linguistic Expressions Tell Us about Learners' Confusion? A Domain-independent Analysis in MOOCs. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13(4), 878-888.
DOI Scopus18 WoS13
2020 Alvarez Cid-Fuentes, J., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2020). Adaptive performance anomaly detection in distributed systems using online SVMs. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 17(5), 9281-941.
DOI Scopus28 WoS20
2019 Atapattu, T., Falkner, K., Thilakaratne, M., Sivaneasharajah, L., & Jayashanka, R. (2019). An Identification of Learners' Confusion through Language and Discourse Analysis.. CoRR, abs/1903.03286.
2019 Atapattu, T., Thilakaratne, M., Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2019). Detecting cognitive engagement using word embeddings within an online teacher professional development community. Computers and Education, 140, 14 pages.
DOI Scopus54 WoS42
2019 Thilakaratne, M., Falkner, K., & Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T. (2019). A systematic review on literature-based discovery workflow. PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE, 5, 40 pages.
DOI Scopus33 WoS30 Europe PMC13
2019 Thilakaratne, M., Falkner, K., & Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T. (2019). A systematic review on literature-based discovery: General overview, methodology, & statistical analysis. ACM Computing Surveys, 52(6), 34 pages.
DOI Scopus45 WoS32
2018 Atapattu, T., & Falkner, K. (2018). Impact of Lecturer's Discourse for Student Video Interactions: Video Learning Analytics Case Study of MOOCs. JOURNAL OF LEARNING ANALYTICS, 5(3), 182-197.
DOI WoS23
2018 Uzunov, A., Fernandez, E., & Falkner, K. (2018). Assessing and improving the quality of security methodologies for distributed systems. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 30(11), e1980-1-e1980-56.
DOI Scopus7 WoS8
2018 Garcia, R., Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2018). Systematic literature review: Self-Regulated Learning strategies using e-learning tools for Computer Science. Computers and Education, 123, 150-163.
DOI Scopus155 WoS124
2018 Michell, D., Szabo, C., Falkner, K., & Szorenyi, A. (2018). Towards a Socio-Ecological Framework to address gender inequity in computer science. Computers and Education, 126, 324-333.
DOI Scopus41 WoS35
2018 Álvarez Cid-Fuentes, J., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2018). An adaptive framework for the detection of novel botnets. Computers and Security, 79, 148-161.
DOI Scopus23 WoS18
2018 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Williams, S. -A. (2018). An ecosystem approach to teacher professional development within computer science. Computer Science Education, 28(4), 303-344.
DOI Scopus33 WoS23
2018 Falkner, K., Szabo, C., Chiprianov, V., Puddy, G., Rieckmann, M., Fraser, D., & Aston, C. (2018). Model-driven performance prediction of systems of systems. Software and Systems Modeling, 17(2), 415-441.
DOI Scopus14 WoS11
2017 Atapattu, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2017). A comprehensive text analysis of lecture slides to generate concept maps. Computers and Education, 115, 96-113.
DOI Scopus63 WoS49
2017 Michell, D., Szorenyi, A., Falkner, K., & Szabo, C. (2017). Broadening participation not border protection: how universities can support women in computer science. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 39(4), 406-422.
DOI Scopus40 WoS31
2017 Jayatilaka, A., Ranasinghe, D. C., Falkner, K., Visvanathan, R., & Wilson, A. (2017). Care workers' voices in designing assistive technologies for preventing malnutrition in older people with dementia: innovative practice. Dementia, 19(2), 1-7.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2016 Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2016). A review of Computer Science resources for learning and teaching with K-12 computing curricula: an Australian case study. Computer Science Education, 25(4), 390-429.
DOI Scopus31 WoS22
2016 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Falkner, N., & Tarmazdi, H. (2016). A method to analyse computer science students’ teamwork in online collaborative learning environments. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 16(2), 7-1-7-28.
DOI Scopus39 WoS30
2015 Uzunov, A., Falkner, K., & Fernandez, E. (2015). A comprehensive pattern-oriented approach to engineering security methodologies. Information and Software Technology, 57(1), 217-247.
DOI Scopus18 WoS16
2015 Falkner, K. E. (2015). Computational thinking as the ‘new literacy’: professional development opportunities. Curriculum & Leadership Journal, 13(9).
2015 Uzunov, A., Fernandez, E., & Falkner, K. (2015). Security solution frames and security patterns for authorization in distributed, collaborative systems. Computers and Security, 55, 193-234.
DOI Scopus16 WoS13
2015 Uzunov, A., Fernandez, E., & Falkner, K. (2015). ASE: a comprehensive pattern-driven security methodology for distributed systems. Computer Standards and Interfaces, 41, 112-137.
DOI Scopus34 WoS28
2014 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2014). Addressing the challenges of a new digital technologies curriculum: MOOCs as a scalable solution for teacher professional development. Research in Learning Technology, 22(1), 24691-1-24691-19.
DOI Scopus87 WoS45
2012 Uzunov, A., Fernandez, E., & Falkner, K. (2012). Securing distributed systems using patterns: A survey. Computers & Security, 31(5), 681-703.
DOI Scopus39 WoS32
2012 Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2012). Supporting and structuring "contributing student pedagogy" in computer science curricula. Computer Science Education, 22(4), 413-443.
DOI Scopus30 WoS25
2012 Uzunov, A., Fernandez, E., & Falkner, K. (2012). Engineering security into distributed systems: a survey of methodologies. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 18(20), 2920-3006.
DOI Scopus52 WoS36
2011 Falkner, K. (2011). Integrating Communications Skills with Discipline Content. Ergo, 2(1), 5-14.
2009 Nguyen, P., Falkner, K., Detmold, H., & Munro, D. S. (2009). A domain specific language for execution profiling & regulation. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, 91, 123-132.
Scopus2
2009 Falkner, K., & Palmer, E. (2009). Developing authentic problem solving skills in introductory computing classes. SIGCSE Bulletin, 41(1), 4-8.
DOI Scopus1
2008 Detmold, H., Van Den Hengel, A., Dick, A., Falkner, K., Munro, D., & Morrison, R. (2008). Middleware for distributed video surveillance. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 9(2), 1-11.
DOI Scopus31
2005 Norcross, S., Morrison, R., Munro, D., Detmold, H., & Falkner, K. (2005). Implementing a family of distributed garbage collectors. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 37(1), 107-126.
Scopus1 WoS1
2005 Detmold, H., Falkner, K., Munro, D., Olds, T., Morrison, R., & Norcross, S. (2005). Server enforced program safety for web application engineering. Journal of Web Engineering, 4(4), 339-371.
1999 Hawick, K., James, H., Silis, A., Grove, D., Patten, C., Mathew, J., . . . Vaughan, F. (1999). DISCWorld : an environment for service-based metacomputing. Future Generation Computer Systems, 15(5), 623-635.
DOI Scopus24 WoS15

Year Citation
2024 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Bell, T. (2024). Computational Thinking Curricula in Australia and New Zealand. In H. Abelson, & S. -C. Kong (Eds.), Computational Thinking Curricula in K-12 (pp. 85-120). The MIT Press.
DOI
2020 Vivian, R., Grover, S., & Falkner, K. (2020). Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Beliefs: Learning Goals for Introductory Programming. In S. Grover (Ed.), Computer Science in K-12 An A-To-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming. United States: Edfinity.
2019 Falkner, K., & Sheard, A. V. (2019). Pedagogic Approaches from Systemic Issues. In S. A. Fincher, & A. V. Robins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research (pp. 445-480). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
DOI
2019 Fincher, S., Kolikant, Y., & Falkner, K. E. (2019). Teacher Learning and Professional Development. In S. Fincher, & A. Robins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research (pp. 727-748). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
DOI Scopus4
2019 Falkner, K. E., & Sheard, J. (2019). Pedagogic Approaches. In S. Fincher, & A. Robins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research (pp. 445-480). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
DOI Scopus23
2019 Lewis, C. M., Shah, N., & Falkner, K. E. (2019). Equity and Diversity. In S. Fincher, & A. Robins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research (pp. 481-510). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
DOI Scopus28
2019 Vahrenhold, J., Cutts, Q., & Falkner, K. (2019). Schools (K-12). In S. Fincher, & A. Robins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research (pp. 547-583). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
DOI Scopus11
2014 Chiprianov, V., Falkner, K., Szabo, C., & Puddy, G. (2014). Architectural Support for Model-Driven Performance Prediction of Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems of Systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 357-364). Springer International Publishing.
DOI
2014 Falkner, K., Chiprianov, V., Falkner, N., Szabo, C., & Puddy, G. (2014). A model-driven engineering method for DRE defence systems performance analysis and prediction. In A. Bagnato, L. Indrusiak, I. Quadri, & M. Rossi (Eds.), Handbook of research on embedded systems design (1 ed., pp. 301-326). United States: IGI Global.
DOI Scopus3
2012 Falkner, K. (2012). Embedding communication skills in the study of the discipline. In A. Patil, H. Eijkman, & E. Bhattacharyya (Eds.), New media communication skills for engineers and IT professionals: trans-national and trans-cultural demands (pp. 94-114). IGI Global.
DOI

Year Citation
2022 Atapattu, T., Herath, M., Elvitigala, C., Zoysa, P. D., Gunawardana, K., Thilakaratne, M., . . . Falkner, K. (2022). EmoMent: An Emotion Annotated Mental Health Corpus from Two South Asian Countries.. In N. Calzolari, C. -R. Huang, H. Kim, J. Pustejovsky, L. Wanner, K. -S. Choi, . . . S. -H. Na (Eds.), COLING (pp. 6991-7001). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
2021 Atapattu, T., Herath, M., Zhang, G., & Falkner, K. (2021). Automated Detection of Cyberbullying AgainstWomen and Immigrants and Cross-domain Adaptability. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop Vol. 18. Virtual, Online: Australasian Language Technology Association.
2021 Graham, M., Falkner, K., Szabo, C., & Yarom, Y. (2021). Security Architecture Framework for Enterprises. In J. Filipe, M. Smialek, A. Brodsky, & S. Hammoudi (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Vol. 417 (pp. 883-904). CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
DOI
2020 Herath, M., Atapattu, T., Dung, H. A., Treude, C., & Falkner, K. (2020). AdelaideCyC at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Ensemble of Classifiers for Offensive Language Detection in Social Media. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (pp. 1516-1523). Barcelona, Spain (online): ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL.
DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2020 Thilakaratne, K., Falkner, K., & Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T. (2020). Information extraction in digital libraries: First steps towards portability of lbdworkflow. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 345-348). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus2
2020 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Thilakaratne, K. (2020). Garbage in, garbage out? an empirical look at information richness of lbd input types. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 369-372). online: ACM.
DOI
2020 Thilakaratne, M., Falkner, K., & Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T. (2020). Connecting the Dots: Hypotheses Generation by Leveraging Semantic Shifts. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 12085 LNAI (pp. 328-340). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2020 Falkner, N., Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Ajanovski, V. V., Liebe, C., Morrison, A., & Parker, M. (2020). Meaningful Assessment at Scale: Helping Instructors to Assess Online Learning. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 512-513). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus3
2020 Vivian, R., Quille, K., Mcgill, M. M., Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Barksdale, S., . . . Maiorana, F. (2020). An international pilot study of K-12 teachers' computer science self-esteem. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2020) (pp. 117-123). online: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus15 WoS6
2020 McClintock, M., Falkner, K., Szabo, C., & Yarom, Y. (2020). Enterprise security architecture: Mythology or methodology?. In ICEIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Vol. 2 (pp. 679-689). online: ICEIS.
DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2020 Sivaneasharajah, L., Falkner, K., & Atapattu, T. (2020). Investigating Students’ Learning in Online Learning Environment. In A. N. Rafferty, J. Whitehill, C. Romero, & V. Cavalli-Sforza (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2020 (pp. 806-809). Online: Institute of Education Sciences.
Scopus1
2020 Sivaneasharajah, L., Atapattu, T., & Falkner, K. (2020). Linguistic Changes across Different User Roles in Online Learning Environment. What do they tell us?. In A. N. Rafferty, J. Whitehill, C. Romero, & V. Cavalli-Sforza (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) (pp. 667-671). Montreal, Canada: International Educational Data Mining Society.
2020 Lewis, C. M., Bell, T., Blikstein, P., Carter, A. S., Falkner, K., Fincher, S. A., . . . Yadav, A. (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research Summarized in 75 minutes. In SIGCSE 2020: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 51ST ACM TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION (pp. 323-324). Portland, OR: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
DOI WoS1
2019 Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., . . . Quille, K. (2019). An international comparison of K-12 computer science education intended and enacted curricula. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 1-10). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus53 WoS42
2019 Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., . . . Quille, K. (2019). An international study piloting the measuring teacher enacted computing curriculum (METRECC) instrument. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Iticse (pp. 111-142). Aberdeen, SCOTLAND: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
DOI Scopus28 WoS24
2019 Garcia, R., Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2019). Understanding Problems through Assignment Presentation: A Replication Study. In IEEE Frontiers in Education Vol. 2019-January (pp. 1-8). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2019 Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2019). Identifying teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge for computer science in the primary years. In ICER 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (pp. 147-155). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus27 WoS20
2019 Garcia, R., Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2019). Instructional framework for CS1 question activities. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 189-195). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2019 Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., . . . Quille, K. (2019). An international benchmark study of K-12 computer science education in schools. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 257-258). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2019 Falkner, K. E., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2019). Supporting Computational Thinking Development in K-6. In Proceedings of Latice 2018 Vol. 1 (pp. 126-133). Auckland, New Zealand: IEEE.
DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2019 Le, K., Tarmazdi, H., Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Szabo, C., & Falkner, N. (2019). Directing Teacher Focus in Computer Science Online Learning Environments. In Proceedings of Latice 2017 (pp. 119-125). Hong Kong: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2018 Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2018). A survey of Australian teachers' self-efficacy and assessment approaches for the K-12 digital technologies curriculum. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (pp. 1-10). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus11 WoS14
2018 Garcia, R., Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2018). Parsons Problems Usage within a MOOC Pedagogy. In SIGCSE'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 49TH ACM TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION (pp. 1111-1112). Baltimore, MD: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
DOI WoS1
2018 Garcia, R., Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2018). Scaffolding the design process using parsons problems. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 1-2). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus8
2018 Thilakaratne, M., Falkner, K., & Atapattu, T. (2018). Automatic detection of cross-disciplinary knowledge associations. In ACL 2018 - 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop (pp. 45-51). online: Association for Computational Linguistics.
DOI Scopus6
2017 Falkner, K. (2017). What Can We Learn about Teaching from MOOCs?. In 17TH KOLI CALLING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCH (KOLI CALLING 2017) (pp. 1). Koli, FINLAND: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
WoS1
2017 Birdsey, L., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2017). Identifying Self-Organization and Adaptability in Complex Adaptive Systems. In Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2017 (pp. 131-140). Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ: IEEE.
DOI Scopus17 WoS13
2017 Birdsey, L., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2017). Large-scale complex adaptive systems using multi-agent modeling and simulation. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS Vol. 3 (pp. 1478-1480). online: IFAAMS.
Scopus5 WoS3
2017 Sheard, J., Simon., Butler, M., Falkner, K., Morgan, M., & Weerasinghe, A. (2017). Strategies for maintaining academic integrity in first-year computing courses. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE Vol. Part F128680 (pp. 244-249). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus48 WoS39
2017 Haidry, S., Falkner, K., & Szabo, C. (2017). Identifying Domain-Specific Cognitive Strategies for Software Engineering. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE Vol. Part F128680 (pp. 206-211). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2017 Atapattu, T., & Falkner, K. (2017). Discourse analysis to improve the effective engagement of MOOC videos. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 580-581). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus11 WoS8
2017 Falkner, N., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2017). Formal forum triage: Towards the strategic selection of responses to student discussion forums. In L@S 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th (2017) ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (pp. 173-176). online: ACM.
DOI
2017 Birdsey, L., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2017). Casl: A declarative domain specific language for modeling complex adaptive systems. In Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference Vol. 0 (pp. 1241-1252). Arlington, VA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus13 WoS9
2017 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., Falkner, N., & William, S. (2017). Reflecting on three offerings of a community-centric MOOC for K-6 computer science teachers. In SIGCSE '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 195-200). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
DOI Scopus17 WoS11
2016 Falkner, K., Falkner, N., Szabo, C., & Vivian, R. (2016). Applying validated pedagogy to MOOCs: an introductory programming course with media computation. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 11-13-July-2016 (pp. 326-331). Arequipa, Peru: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus7
2016 Allan, T., Brumley, B., Falkner, K., Van De Pol, J., & Yarom, Y. (2016). Amplifying side channels through performance degradation. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications Vol. 5-9-December-2016 (pp. 422-435). Los Angeles, California: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus87 WoS66
2016 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., & Falkner, K. (2016). A framework for topic generation and labeling from MOOC discussions. In Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (pp. 201-204). NY, USA: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus22 WoS19
2016 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Tarmazdi, H. (2016). Topic-wise classification of MOOC discussions: a visual analytics approach. In T. Barnes, M. Chi, & M. Feng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp. 276-281). Raleigh, NC, USA: IEDMS.
Scopus28
2016 Falkner, K. E., Szabo, C., & Chiprianov, V. (2016). Model-driven performance predication of systems of systems. In Proceedings of Models 2016 (pp. 44). Saint-Malo, France: ACM Digital Library.
DOI WoS5
2015 Fehlmann, S., & Falkner, K. (2015). A case study in agility and evolving the long-lived software system. In Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference, vol. II Vol. 28-September-2015 (pp. 33-37). Adelaide, SA, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI
2015 Guerin, C., Jayatilaka, A., Calder, P., McCulloch, A., & Ranasinghe, D. (2015). Why don't more ICT students do PhDs?. In D. D'Souza, & K. Falkner (Eds.), Proceeding of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 73-80). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
2015 Falkner, K., Szabo, C., Michell, D., Szorenyi, A., & Thyer, S. (2015). Gender gap in academia: perceptions of female computer science academics. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2015-June (pp. 111-116). Vilnius, Lithuania: ACM.
DOI Scopus51 WoS33
2015 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2015). An evaluation methodology for concept maps mined from lecture notes: an educational perspective. In S. Zvacek, M. Restivo, J. Uhomoibhi, & M. Helfert (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 510 (pp. 68-83). Barcelona, Spain: Springer International Publishing.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2015 Tarmazdi, H., Vivian, R., Szabo, C., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2015). Using learning analytics to visualise computer science teamwork. In V. Dagiene, C. Schulte, & T. Jevsikova (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2015-June (pp. 165-170). Vilnius, Lithuania: ACM.
DOI Scopus37 WoS28
2015 Vivian, R., Tarmazdi, H., Falkner, K., Falkner, N., & Szabo, C. (2015). The development of a dashboard tool for visualising online teamwork discussions. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering Vol. 2 (pp. 380-388). Florence, Italy: IEEE.
DOI Scopus28 WoS19
2015 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2015). Teaching computational thinking in K-6: the CSER digital technologies MOOC. In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 63-72). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus2
2015 Falkner, K., Szabo, C., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2015). Evolution of software development strategies. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Vol. 2 (pp. 243-252). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus27 WoS20
2015 Atapattu, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2015). Educational question answering motivated by question-specific concept maps. In C. Conati, N. Heffernan, A. Mitrovic, & M. Verdejo (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education, 17th International Conference, AIED 2015 Vol. 9112 (pp. 13-22). Madrid, Spain: Springer.
DOI Scopus8 WoS10
2015 Bower, M., & Falkner, K. (2015). Computational thinking, the notional machine, pre-service teachers, and research opportunities. In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 37-46). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus31
2015 Butler, M., Sheard, J., Morgan, M., Weerasinghe, A., Falkner, K., & Simon. (2015). Understanding the teaching context of first year ICT Education in Australia. In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 101-109). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus2
2015 Morgan, M., Sheard, J., Butler, M., Falkner, K., Simon., & Weerasinghe, A. (2015). Teaching in first-year ICT education in Australia: research and practice. In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 81-90). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus3
2015 Sheard, J., Morgan, M., Butler, M., Falkner, K., Simon., & Weerasinghe, A. (2015). Assessment in first-year ICT education in Australia: research and practice. In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 160 (pp. 91-99). Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus2
2015 Butler, M., Morgan, M., Sheard, J., Simon., Falkner, K., & Weerasinghe, A. (2015). Initiatives to increase student Engagement in first-year ICT. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2015-June (pp. 308-313). Vilnius, Lithuania: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus9 WoS2
2015 Atapattu, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2015). Task-adapted concept map scaffolding to support quizzes in an online environment. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2015-June (pp. 272-277). Vilnius, Lithuania: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2015 Álvarez Cid-Fuentes, J., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2015). Online behavior identification in distributed systems. In Proceedings of the 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Vol. 2016-January (pp. 202-211). Montreal, Canada: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2014 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2014). The Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum: challenge and opportunity. In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Computing Education Conference Vol. 148 (pp. 3-12). Auckland, New Zealand: Australian Computer Society Inc..
Scopus52
2014 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2014). Acquisition of triples of knowledge from lecture notes: a natural language processing approach. In Stamper, J., Pardos, Z., & M. Mavrikis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp. 193-196). London, United Kingdom: International Educational Data Mining Society (IEDMS).
2014 Falkner, N., & Falkner, K. (2014). “Whither, badges?” or “wither, badges!”: a metastudy of badges in Computer Science education to clarify effects, significance and influence. In Proceedings of 14th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research Vol. 2014-November (pp. 127-135). Koli, Finland: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus18
2014 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., & Szabo, C. (2014). Can everybody learn to code?: computer science community perceptions about learning the fundamentals of programming. In Proceedings of the 14th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research Vol. 2014-November (pp. 41-50). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus9
2014 Szabo, C., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2014). Experiences in course design using neo-piagetian theory. In Proceedings of the 14th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research Vol. 2014-November (pp. 81-90). online: ACM.
DOI Scopus3
2014 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2014). Identifying computer science self-regulated learning strategies. In ITICSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference (pp. 291-296). Uppsala, Sweden: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus73
2014 Falkner, N., Vivian, R., Piper, D., & Falkner, K. (2014). Increasing the effectiveness of automated assessment by increasing marking granularity and feedback units. In Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 9-14). Atlanta, Georgia: ACM New York.
DOI Scopus33 WoS28
2014 Rieckmann, M., Fraser, D., Chiprianov, V., Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2014). Demonstration of model-driven performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded systems of systems. In Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (pp. 34-1-34-4). Vienna, Austria: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus1
2014 Chiprianov, V., Falkner, K., Gallon, L., & Munier, M. (2014). Towards modelling and analysing non-functional properties of systems of systems. In S. CooK, V. Ireland, A. Gorod, T. Ferris, & Q. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering: The Socio-Technical Perspective (pp. 289-294). Adelaide, Australia: IEEE.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10
2014 Yarom, Y., & Falkner, K. (2014). Flush+reload: a high resolution, low noise, l3 cache side-channel attack. In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (pp. 719-732). San Diego, United States: USENIX Association.
Scopus1355 WoS783
2014 Szabo, C., & Falkner, K. (2014). Neo-Piagetian theory as a guide to curriculum analysis. In Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 115-120). Atlanta, GA: ACM.
DOI Scopus11 WoS8
2014 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2014). Evaluation of concept importance in concept maps mined from lecture notes: computer vs human. In S. Zvacek, M. Restivo, J. Uhomoibhi, & M. Helfert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education Vol. 2 (pp. 75-84). Barcelona, Spain: SciTePress.
DOI Scopus9
2014 Chiprianov, V., Falkner, K., Szabo, C., & Puddy, G. (2014). Architectural support for model-driven performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded systems of systems. In P. Avgeriou, & U. Zdun (Eds.), Software architecture: 8th European Conference, ECSA 2014 Vienna, Austria, August 25-29, 2014: proceedings Vol. 8627 LNCS (pp. 357-364). Vienna, Austria: Springer International Publishing.
DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2014 Uzunov, A., Falkner, K., & Fernandez, E. (2014). A comprehensive pattern-driven security methodology for distributed systems. In Proceedings, 2014 23rd Australasian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 2014 (pp. 142-151). Sydney, N.S.W.: IEEE Computer Society.
DOI Scopus4
2013 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2013). Computer science students' causal attributions for successful and unsuccessful outcomes in programming assignments. In Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International conference on computing education research (pp. 125-134). Finland: ACM.
DOI Scopus12
2013 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2013). Analysing computer science students' teamwork role adoption in an online self-organised teamwork activity. In Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International conference on computing education research (pp. 105-114). Finland: ACM.
DOI Scopus20
2013 Haig, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2013). Visualisation of learning management system usage for detecting student behaviour patterns. In A. Carbone, & J. Whalley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE) Vol. 136 (pp. 107-115). Australia: Australian Computer Society.
Scopus12
2013 Britton, M., Falkner, K., & Puddy, G. (2013). Combat management systems: Predicting performance early in the design lifecycle. In Proceedings of the 2013 Military Communications and Information Systems Conference, MilCIS 2013 (pp. 1-6). United States: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3
2013 Falkner, K., Chiprianov, V., Falkner, N., Szabo, C., & Puddy, G. (2013). Modeling scenarios for the performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded systems. In 2013 Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MilCIS) (pp. 1-6). United States: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5
2013 Vivian, R., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2013). Building consensus: Students' cognitive and metacognitive behaviours during wiki construction. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, LaTiCE (pp. 154-161). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2013 Falkner, N., Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2013). Computer science education: The first threshold concept. In 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (pp. 39-46). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2013 Falkner, K., Vivian, R., & Falkner, N. (2013). Neo-piagetian forms of reasoning in software development process construction. In Proceedings of the 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (pp. 31-38). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2013 Uzunov, A., Falkner, K., & Fernandez, E. (2013). Decomposing distributed software architectures for the determination and incorporation of security and other non-functional requirements. In Proceedings of the 2013 22nd Australian Conference on Software Engineering (pp. 30-39). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9
2013 Falkner, K., Chiprianov, V., Falkner, N., Szabo, C., Hill, J., Puddy, G., . . . Wallis, A. (2013). Model-driven performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded defence systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS (pp. 155-158). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus9 WoS3
2013 Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2013). Designing and supporting collaborative learning activities. In Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2013 (pp. 537-538). online: ACM Digital Library.
DOI Scopus1
2013 Falkner, K., Falkner, N., & Vivian, R. (2013). Collaborative learning and anxiety a phenomenographic study of collaborative learning activities. In SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 227-232). USA: ACM.
DOI Scopus33
2012 Falkner, N., & Falkner, K. (2012). Teaching tools as teaching tools: contextualised authentic learning examples. In Proceedings of the 2012 Australasian Association for Engineering Education Annual Conference, AAEE 2012 (pp. 1-9). Melbourne: ESER Group.
2012 Atapattu Mudiyanselage, T., Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2012). Automated extraction of semantic concepts from semi-structured data: supporting computer-based education through the analysis of lecture notes. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2012 Vol. 7446 LNCS (pp. 161-175). Germany: Springer-Verlag.
DOI Scopus8
2012 Yarom, Y., Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2012). S-RVM: a secure design for a high-performance java virtual machine. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages, VMIL'12 (pp. 13-22). USA: ACM.
DOI
2012 Falkner, N., & Falkner, K. (2012). A fast measure for identifying at-risk students in computer science. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2012 (pp. 55-62). Australia: ACM.
DOI Scopus42
2012 Falkner, K., & Falkner, N. (2012). Integrating communication skills into the computer science curriculum. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE'12 (pp. 379-384). USA: ACM.
DOI Scopus24 WoS9
2010 Le Lievre, K., & Falkner, K. (2010). A change of direction: helping postgraduate students become effective sessional teachers. In The Education Research Group of Adelaid (pp. The Changing Face of Education, 24-25 September, 2010). Adelaide, Australia: The University of Adelaide.
2010 Falkner, K., & Le Lievre, K. (2010). From student to teacher: Building professional development resources for sessional teaching staff. In Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 649-655). Australia: AaeE.
2009 Falkner, K., & Palmer, E. (2009). Developing authentic problem solving skills in introductory computing classes. In Proceedings of SIGSCE'09 (pp. 4-8). USA: ACM.
DOI Scopus24
2009 Falkner, K. (2009). Engaging large first year classes. In Proceedings of the 20th AAEE Conference (pp. 274-279). Australia: AAEE.
2009 Nguyen, P., Falkner, K., Detmold, H., & Munro, D. (2009). A domain specific language for execution profiling & regulation. In Proceedings of ACSC 2009 Vol. 91 (pp. 111-120). Australia: ACS.
2009 Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2009). Easing the transition: A collaborative learning approach. In Proceedings of ACE 2009 Vol. 95 (pp. 65-74). Australia: ACS.
Scopus12
2008 Detmold, H., Van Den Hengel, A., Dick, A., Cichowski, A., Hill, R., Kocadag, E., . . . Munro, D. (2008). Estimating camera overlap in large and growing networks. In Proceedings of the ICDSC 2008 (pp. 1-9). USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus10
2008 Falkner, K., McEntee, J., Palmer, E., & Botten, J. (2008). Establishing an education community of practice. In Proceedings of HERDSA 2008 (pp. 1-9). NZ: HERDSA.
2007 Detmold, H., Van Den Hengel, A., Dick, A., Cichowski, A., Hill, R., Kocadag, E., . . . Munro, D. (2007). Topology estimation for thousand-camera surveillance networks. In B. Rinner, & W. Wolf (Eds.), Proceedings of ICDSC-07 (pp. 195-202). CDROM: IEEE.
DOI Scopus31 WoS7
2007 Falkner, K., Balasubramaniam, D., Detmold, H., & Munro, D. (2007). Informed evolution. In Flavio Oquendo (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 4758 LNCS Vol. 4758 LNCS (pp. 288-291). Spain: Springer.
DOI Scopus1
2006 Detmold, H., Falkner, K., Munro, D., Olds, T., & Zakarevicius, A. (2006). Evolving system services to meet application requirements. In J. Gray, R. Klefstad, & Y. Coady (Eds.), Proceedings of HICSS-39 2006 Vol. 9 (pp. www1-www9). www: IEEE.
DOI
2006 Detmold, H., Dick, A., Falkner, K., Munro, D., Van Den Hengel, A., & Morrison, R. (2006). Middleware for video surveillance networks. In V. Cahill, & S. Michiels (Eds.), Proceedings of MIdSens'06 Vol. 218 (pp. CDROM31-CDROM36). CDROM: ACM Press.
DOI Scopus17
2006 Detmold, H., Dick, A., Falkner, K., Munro, D., Van Den Hengel, A., & Morrison, R. (2006). Scalable surveillance software architecture. In M. Piccardi, T. Hintz, I. Pavlidis, C. Regazzoni, & X. He (Eds.), Proceedings of AVSS 2006 (pp. CDROM1-CDROM6). CDROM: IEEE.
DOI Scopus11
2004 Fox, J., Detmold, H., & Falkner, K. (2004). Hyper-programming web applications. In G. Abraham, & B. Rubinstein (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Australian Undergraduate Students' Computing Conference (pp. www 59-www 66). http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~benr/publications/auscc04/: AUSCC.
2004 Brodie-Tyrrell, W., Detmold, H., Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2004). Garbage collection for storage-oriented clusters. In V. Estivill Castro (Ed.), Computer Science 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Computer Science Conference (pp. 99-108). NSW, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc.
2004 Hill, D., & Falkner, K. (2004). Designing a flexible naming system with the compliant systems architecture. In H. Detmold, K. Falkner, & D. Munro (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures 2004 (pp. www 1-www 6). http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~wossa2004: The University of Adelaide.
2004 Falkner, K., Detmold, H., Hill, D., Munro, D., Morrison, R., & Norcross, S. (2004). Unifying static and dynamic approaches to evolution through the Compliant Systems Architecture. In R. Sprague Jr (Ed.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Vol. 37 (pp. CD-ROM 1-CD-ROM 9). CD-ROM: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2004 Olds, T., Detmold, H., Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2004). Engineering safe and efficient shareability within Web systems. In J. Yu, X. Lin, H. Lu, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Web Conference Vol. 3007 (pp. 697-710). Germany: Springer.
DOI Scopus1
2003 Detmold, H., Falkner, K., Munro, D., Olds, T., Morrison, R., & Norcross, S. (2003). An integrated approach to static safety of web applications. In G. Hencsey, & B. White (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference 2003 (pp. www 1-www 4). http://www2003.org: International WWW Conference Committee.
2003 Norcross, S., Morrison, R., Munro, D., & Detmold, H. (2003). Implementing a family of distributed garbage collectors. In M. Oudshoorn (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference (pp. 161-170). NSW, Australia: Australian Computer Society Inc.
2003 Hill, D., Detmold, H., Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2003). Using the compliant systems architecture to deliver flexible policies within two-phase commit. In A. James, B. Lings, & M. Younas (Eds.), 20th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 20 Coventry, UK, July 15-17, 2003 Proceedings Vol. 2712 (pp. 245-252). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
DOI
2002 Falkner, K., Detmold, H., Munro, D., & Olds, T. (2002). Towards compliant distributed shared memory. In H. Bal, K. Lohr, & A. Reinefeld (Eds.), Proceedings of CCGrid2002 (pp. 305-310). California, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
DOI Scopus2
2001 Vaughan, F., Brodie-Tyrrell, W., Falkner, K., & Munro, D. (2001). Bounded parallel garbage collection: Implementation and adaptation. In H. ElGindy, & C. Fidge (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems (pp. 40-49). HONG KONG: SPRINGER-VERLAG HONG KONG LTD.
2001 Munro, D., Falkner, K., Lowry, M., & Vaughan, F. (2001). Mosaic: A non-intrusive complete garbage collector for DSM systems. In R. Buyya, G. Mohay, & P. Roe (Eds.), Proceedings of the First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (pp. 539-546). LOS ALAMITOS, CALIFORNIA, USA: IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2000 Falkner, K. (2000). A model of location transparency. In C. Barter, & D. Munro (Eds.), Proceedings of The Seventh IDEA International Workshop (pp. 24-28). Adelaide, Australia: The University of Adelaide.
1998 Coddington, P. D., Hawick, K. A., Kerry, K. E., Mathew, J. A., Silis, A. J., Webb, D. L., . . . Tang, K. (1998). Implementation of a geospatial imagery digital library using Java and CORBA. In J. Chen, M. S. Li, C. Mingins, & B. Meyer (Eds.), Proceedings Technology of Object Oriented Languages and Systems TOOLS 1998 (pp. 280-289). BEIJING, PEOPLES R CHINA: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
DOI Scopus9 WoS5
1998 Kerry, K. E., & Hawick, K. A. (1998). Kriging interpolation on high-performance computers. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Vol. 1401 (pp. 429-438). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
DOI Scopus51

Year Citation
2018 Ng, D., Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2018). Advising Students on Careers of the Future: A Report on the Careers Development Landscape in Australia. The University of Adelaide.
2017 Vivian, R., Lozanovski, C., & Falkner, K. (2017). Literature review: Supporting teachers to assess F–10 Digital Technologies.
2017 Vivian, R., & Falkner, K. (2017). Building Australian Teacher Capacity in Teaching Digital Technologies.
2015 Falkner, K., & Vivian, R. (2015). Coding Across the Curriculum: Resource Review (A157082). Australian Government : Department of Education and Training.

Year Citation
2024 Athukoralage, D., Atapattu, T., Thilakaratne, M., & Falkner, K. (2024). LT4SG@SMM4H24: Tweets Classification for Digital Epidemiology of
Childhood Health Outcomes Using Pre-Trained Language Models.

Grants and Industry Research Contracts

Provision of National Lending Library and Digital Resources. Services Contract. Department of Education. R. Vivian, K. Falkner and S. Barber. ($1,165, 896) (2023-2025)

AI and Cyber Security Support. Google Australia and New Zealand. R. Vivian, K. Falkner and S. Barber. ($225,055) (2023-2025)

Mathematics Massive Open Online Courses and Mathematics Hub. Education Services Australia and University of Adelaide (R. Vivian, K. Falkner and L. Mitchell) ($9,500,000) (2020-2024)

Artificial Intelligence Resources. K. Falkner, R. Vivian, T. Atapattu and E. Palmer, Department of Education and Training ($605,000) (2019-2023)

CyberSecurity Education Resources. K. Falkner, AustCyber (with industry partners Google Australian/New Zealand and CSIRO) ($313,387) (2020-2021)

SEM Environment Employment Integration. K. Falkner and B. Phillips, DST Group Research Contract ($1,218,573) (2019-2021)

ICT Forecast and Analysis, and Exploration of Automatic Code Deployment to Computing Hardware Types. K. Falkner and B. Phillips, DST Group Research Contract ($902,852) (2017-2020)

For the Expanded Rollout and Support of the University of Adelaide Digital Technology MOOCS – Closing the Digital Divide for Disadvantaged Students, Department of Education and Training. K. Falkner, R. Vivian, N. Falkner and C. Szabo ($7,200,000) (2016-2020)

Artificial Intelligence Education Models. K. Falkner, R. Vivian and T. Atapattu, Google Research Contract ($83,749) (2019)

Review of the first Australia FRC program, K. Falkner and R. Vivian, Google Research Contract ($50,941) (2018-2019)

SEM Environment: Deployment Platform and Instrumentation Research. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DST Group Research Contract ($1,033,014) (2017-2019)

Assessment and OS-Level Mitigation of Timing Channels. Y.Yarom and K. Falkner, Data61 CRP Research Agreement ($682,684) (2016-2019)

Airborne spatial tracking for saving endangered species. D. Ranasinghe, L. P. Koh, K. Falkner, B. Ostendorf, G. Puddy, ARC Linkage Project ($181,194) (2016-2018)

Assessment for the F-10 Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, Education Services Australia (ESA) Research Contract. R. Vivian & K. Falkner. ($141,616) (2016-2018).

Understanding Australia’s Teaching Culture with Respect to Gender Diversity, C. Szabo, K. Falkner, A. Szorenyi and D. Michell, Google Australia, $26,764 (2017)

Understanding the relationship between social community formation and progression within MOOC environments, K. Falkner, R. Vivian and T. Atapattu, Research Contract, Google Australia, $37,687 (2017)

KVM Literature Review. K. Falkner, DST Group Research Contract ($60,000) (2017)

Delivery of a Fully Operational SEM Environment. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DST Group Research Contract ($150,000) (2016-2017)

Submarine Combat System Large Scale Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Insight. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DST Group Research Contract ($150,000) (2016-2017)

Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research (Generic Vehicle Architecture Integration). K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DST Group Research Contract ($110,000) (2016)

Expanding Teacher Professional Development – Beyond the CSER MOOC, Google Research Contract. K. Falkner, R. Vivian. ($95,101) (2016)

Assessment and OS-Level Mitigation of Timing Channels. Y.Yarom and K. Falkner, NICTA CRP Research Agreement ($132,378) (2015-2016)

Automated Analysis of MOOC Discussion Content to Support Personalised Learning, K. Falkner, Google MOOC Focused Research Awards. ($50,000 US) (2015-2016)

Pathways to Computer Science: Enabling Equity and Diversity. K. Falkner, C. Szabo, A.Szorenyi and D. Michell, Google Research Contract ($55,000) (2015-2016)

Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research – Integration. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($465,000) (2015-2016)

Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research – Security. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, DSTO Research Contract ($170,000) (2015-2016)

Coding Across the Curriculum – Curriculum Mapping and Analysis. K. Falkner and R. Vivian. ($77,889) (2015)

Building Digital Technologies Capacity. K. Falkner and R. Vivian, Google Research Contract ($48,312) (2014-2015)

Assessment and OS-Level Mitigation of Timing Channels. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, NICTA CRP ($232,167) (2014-2015)

Addressing the Challenge of the Digital Technologies Curriculum (Years 7&8). K. Falkner, R. Vivian, N. Falkner and C. Szabo, Digital Careers Sponsorship Agreement ($119,588) (2014-2015).

Model Driven Systems Engineering: Advanced Modelling of Communication Protocols. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, DSTO Research Contract ($110,000) (2014)

Improving Gender Equity in Computer Science and ICT, A. Szorenyi and K. Falkner, HUMSS Faculty Research Centre Competitive Funding Scheme ($4,985) (2014)

Experiences of first year students in ICT courses: best practices in teaching introductory programming in ICT courses, J. Sheard, M. Morgan, M. Butler, K. Falkner, A. Weerasinghe, Simon, ACDICT ALTA Commissioned Good Practice Report ($14,937) (2014)

Model Driven Systems Engineering: Advanced Modelling of Communication Protocols. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($130,000) (2014)

Addressing the Challenges of the Digital Technologies Curriculum: MOOCs for Teacher Development, K. Falkner, N. Falkner and R. Vivian, Google Research Contract ($65,000 + in-kind) (2013-2014)

An evidenced-based approach to the design and redevelopment of inclusive, technology-enhanced learning environments, D. Wood, L. Glenny, C. Snowden, S. Scutter, T. Du, D. Tedmanson, B. Underwood, T. Johnson, N. Lindsay, K. Falkner, R. Vivian, M. Hughes-Warrington, H. Partridge and J. Willems, OLT Innovation and Development Grant, $211,000 (2013-2014)

Model Driven Systems Engineering. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($420,000) (2013-2015)

Digital Inclusion and Indigenous Australians. Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Katrina Falkner, Peter Radoll and Mike Wilmore. Telstra Foundation Research Contract, $75,000 (2013).

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: System Execution Modelling Environment. K. Falkner, N. Falkner and C. Szabo. DSTO Research Contract ($75,000) (2012-2013)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: System Virtualisation. K. Falkner. DSTO Research Contract ($130,000) (2012-2013)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: Extending the Reference Combat management and System Execution Modelling Capability. K. Falkner, N. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($490,000) (2012-2013)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: System Execution Modelling. K. Falkner, DSTO Research Contract ($120,000) (2012)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: Reference Combat Management System Development. K. Falkner, DSTO Research Contract ($225,000) (2011-2012)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice: UAV Models. K. Falkner, DSTO Research Contract ($46,500) (2011)

Early Intervention Strategies for At Risk Students in ECMS, Katrina Falkner, Lachlan Coleman, University Implementation Grant for Learning and Teaching Enhancements ($12,000) (2010).

Sustained Sessional Teacher Support, K. Falkner, T. Rainsford, C. Kestell, J. Denier, University Learning and Teaching Performance Fund Grant ($50,000) (2009-2010)

A Problem Solving Curriculum in Computing, B. Alexander, K. Falkner, H. el-Gindy, F. Brown, Z. Michalewicz, Google Research Grant ($46,500) (2007-2008)

Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice. K. Falkner, DSTO Research Contract ($70,000) (2010)
Designing software architectures for application development above a microkernel in a trusted embedded system, K. Falkner, ECMS Faculty Small Grant ($10,000) (2006-2007)

Evaluating effectiveness, defining standards and sharing effective methods of assessment across disciplines, E. Palmer, K. Falkner, J. McEntee, B. Alexander, S. Al-Sarawi, M. Coulson, J. Botten, L. Rogers, University of Adelaide Learning and Teaching Grant ($32,000) (2007)

Establishing links between High School Mathematics and Different University Pathways, K. Falkner (Industry Partner), Premier's Industry Awards for Teachers of Science and Mathematics (in-kind contribution) (2007)

Mistkastn - a distributed Java Virtual Machine, D.S. Munro, K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, Apple University Development Fund Grant (Equipment Grant, $7,500) (2005-2007)

The evaluation and validation of a new approach to software evolution, K. Falkner, ECMS Faculty Small Grant ($6,500) (2005)

A new approach to integrating Static and Dynamic Software Evolution Techniques, K. Falkner, ECMS Faculty Small Grant ($8,000) (2004)

Computer Science Programming and Learning Centre, K. Falkner and D.S. Munro, University of Adelaide Learning and Teaching Grant ($12,000) (2003)
 

 

I have a strong interest in Computer Science Education Research, mainly in the areas of collaborative and active pedagogy, and the use of technology to support online learning, including MOOCs, online collaboration environments and technology-assisted education. You can read more about my work in this area at the Computer Science Education Research Group (CSER) site. 

I led a five-year curriculum redevelopment program in the School of Computer Science, incorporating best-practice and innovative pedagogy designed to support equity and increase engagement. As part of this, I led the development of The University of Adelaide’s first Computer Science MOOC: Think Create Code, launched in 2015 on edX, attracting over 25,000 students from 177 countries. Built upon contextualised and collaborative pedagogy as a strategy for increasing diversity, the first cohort for this course attracted 34.4% female participation, significantly higher than participation rates seen in traditional learning environments.

CSER leads the development of the CSER Digital Technologies MOOCs, free online courses, designed to support Australian teachers with implementing the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies and more recently in Mathematics. These courses are free and open to all Australian teachers, and will help connect you with a community of interested educators. 

 

 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Improving MOOCs Through the Development of Automated Tools for Learner Modelling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Abhilash Sridhara
2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Investigating Students’ Learning through Learner roles and Linguistic Expressions in Massive Open Online Courses Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Lavendini Sivaneasharajah
2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor In Search of a Common Thread: Enhancing the LBD Workflow with a view to its Widespread Applicability Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Menasha Thilakaratne
2017 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Codification Pedagogy for Introductory Procedural Programming Courses Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rita Alicia Garcia
2015 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Towards Technologies for Promoting Nutritional Health in Older People with Dementia Living in their Own Home Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Asangi Jayatilaka
2015 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Enterprise Security Architecture - Mythology or Methodology? Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Michelle Rey Graham
2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Adaptive Anomalous Behavior Identification in Large-Scale Distributed Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Javier Alvarez
2014 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Detecting Students At-Risk Using Learning Analytics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ayman Saleh S Albassam
2012 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Semantic Component Selection Based on Non-Functional Requirements Master of Science in Mathematical and Computer Sciences Master Part Time Mr Amir Kanan Kashefi
2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor A computational model for task-adapted knowledge organisation: improving learning through concept maps extracted from lecture slides Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Thushari Atapattu
2011 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Deployment Optimisation Insights for Evolving Software Systems within a Constrained Computing Environment Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Gavin Stanley Puddy
2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Engineering Security Methodologies for Distributed Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Anton Uzunov
2003 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Software-Based Reference Protection for Component Isolation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Yuval Yarom
2003 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Surf: An Abstract Model of Distributed Garbage Collection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr William Brodie-Tyrrell

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2021 - 2022 Board Member SATAC Board South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre Australia
2019 - 2024 Council St Ann's College Council St Ann's College Australia
2018 - ongoing Board Member ADSEI Board Australian Data Science Education Institute Australia
2015 - 2017 Board Member ACS ICT Educators Board Australian Computer Society Australia
2006 - 2011 Co-Founder Higher Education Research Group of Adelaide University of Adelaide Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2018 - 2020 President Australian Council of Deans of ICT Australia
2015 - ongoing Member ACDICT Executive Committee -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2015 - ongoing Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Computing Education - -
2014 - ongoing Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Education - -

Date Office Name Institution Country
2014 - ongoing Chair, ACM SIGCSE - Australasia ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education - Australasia -

Connect With Me

External Profiles

Other Links