Research
My research interests include:
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Knowledge Management e.g. Folksonomies and Ontologies
- Software Engineering
- Security and Privacy
Themes
Teaching
I supervise on the following courses:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Further Java
- Software Engineering and Security
- Security
Publications
- Cummins, S., Stead, A., Jardine-Wright, L., Davies, I., Beresford, A. R. and Rice, A.' Investigating the Use of Hints in Online Problem Solving', Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1145/2876034.2893379
- Cummins, S., Beresford, A. R., Davies, I. and Rice, A. 'Supporting Scalable Data Sharing in Online Education', In Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 97-100. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2876034.2893376
- Cummins, S., Beresford, A. R. and Rice, A. 'Investigating Engagement with In-Video Quiz Questions in a Programming Course', in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 57-66, Jan.-March 1 2016, [author submitted version]
- Cummins, S., Davies, I., Rice, A. and Beresford, A. R. (2015) 'Equality: A tool for free-form equation editing', The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 6-9, 2015, Hualien, Taiwan, [author submitted version]
- Cummins, S., Burd L. and Hatch, A. (2011) 'Investigating shareable feedback tags for programming assignments', Computer Science Education 21(1), Routledge, [author submitted version]
- Cummins, S. (2010) 'Feedback 2.0: An Investigation into Using Sharable Feedback Tags as Programming Feedback', Doctoral thesis, Durham University, Available online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/400/1/.
- Cummins, S., Burd, L., and Hatch, A. (2010) 'Using Feedback Tags and Sentiment Analysis to Generate Sharable Learning Resources', Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Sousse, Tunisia, 5-7 July 2010, [author submitted version]
- Cummins, S., Burd, L., and Hatch, A. (2009) 'Tag Based Feedback for Programming Courses', SIGCSE Bulletin, 41(4) (Dec. 2009), pp 62-65, [author submitted version]
- Cummins, S., Burd, L., Hatch, A. (2009) 'Folksonomies Of Feedback: Tagging Source Code' (poster abstract), Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science, 25th-27th August 2009, University of Kent in Caterbury. [Original Poster]
- Geldart, J. and Cummins, S. (2009),'The Automatic Integration of Taxonomies with Folksonomies using Non-Axiomatic Logic', Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society, [author submitted version]
- Geldart, J., Cummins, S., and Song, W. (2008), 'A Web of Active Knowledge', Semantics, Knowledge and the Grid SKG'08, Beijing, China
- Cummins, S. (2008), 'TR-TEL-08-05: Changing Programming Feedback Using Web 2.0 Technologies', Technology Enhanced Learning Research Group Technical Report Series, Durham University, August 2008
