Dr Paul Denny

Four Million Questions and a Few Answers: Lessons From Research on Student-Generated Resources

Paul Denny is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include developing and evaluating tools for supporting collaborative learning, particularly involving student-generated resources, and exploring the ways that students engage with these environments. One of his developments, PeerWise, hosts more than four million practice questions, with associated solutions and explanations, created by students in 90 countries. He has fostered a community of educational researchers around this project, more than 100 of whom have published their research as a result.

He has received Best Paper Awards at SIGCSE 2019 and ICER 2008, and has published several other award-winning papers at venues such as SIGCHI, ITiCSE and ACE. He has been recognized for contributions to teaching both nationally and internationally, receiving the QS Reimagine Education Overall Award and the “ICT Tools for Teaching and Learning” Gold Award (2018), the Association of Commonwealth Universities Jacky McAleer Memorial Fellowship (2017), New Zealand’s National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the Australasian Association for Engineering Education Award for Innovation in Curricula, Learning and Teaching (2009) and the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching (2010).

ACM Turing Award Laureates

CompEd is co-locating with the ACM Turing Celebration Conference – China (ACM TURC 2019). CompEd attendees have the opportunity to attend the TURC keynotes, including Turing Award Laureates!