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Prestigious teaching medal awarded to UC computer science expert

A Computer Science lecturer who developed an innovative open-source teaching tool that has taken off around the world has won the University of Canterbury’s highest award for tertiary teaching excellence.

Dr Richard Lobb developed an innovative open-source teaching tool that has taken off around the world and has won UC’s highest award for tertiary teaching excellence.

Dr Richard Lobb has taught in the UC Computer Science and Software Engineering Department since 2004 and during that time has been responsible for many innovations that have improved and expanded the way the subject is taught.

In 2017 he developed a free Moodle plug-in called CodeRunner which provides an interactive learning environment. Since then it has been adopted by hundreds of thousands of students at universities around the world.

Dr Lobb says his teaching philosophy is that students learn by doing and they need immediate feedback. He also believes he has to enthuse his students so they will want to succeed.

Those elements fed into the development of CodeRunner assessment tool where students write programme code and paste it into an answer box to get instant results.

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