Rate My Professor Karen Woo

Dr. Karen Woo is the Senior Project and Research Manager at the Macquarie School of Education, Macquarie University. She holds additional roles as Professional Casual in the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Academic Casual in the Macquarie School of Education. Her research topics include coding across the curriculum, integrating coding into education, multimodal design, computer science concepts in narratives, digital learning, and screen use for education. Dr. Woo contributes to advancing educational practices through her involvement in key projects such as Associate Investigator for "Best Practice in Screen Use for Education" (2025–2026), Partner Investigator for "Bonding Through Coding" (2024–2026), and Primary Chief Investigator for "Google: Digital Technologies Jumpstarter Workshops" (2019–2021). She has also organized events like the "Bonding Through Coding Workshop Series - Website development" in 2025.

Dr. Woo has produced a series of publications addressing contemporary challenges in education technology. Recent works encompass "Students as multimodal designers and authors" (2026, chapter in Creative technologies education: students as digital designers, Routledge); "Integrating coding across the curriculum: a scoping review" (2025, Computer Science Education, 35(2), 216-237); "Moving beyond the rhetoric: integrating coding into the English curriculum in Australian primary schools" (2025, The Australian Educational Researcher, 52(1), 803–839); "Coding across the curriculum: challenges for non-specialist teachers" (2023, chapter in Teaching coding in K-12 schools: research and application, Springer, 245-261); "The search for computer science concepts in coding animated narratives: tensions and opportunities" (2023, Journal of Educational Computing Research, 61(7), 1335-1358); and "Problem solved, but how? an exploratory study into students' problem solving processes in creative coding tasks" (2022). Earlier publications include "Web-based lecture technologies: blurring the boundaries between face-to-face and distance learning provision" (2008); "Wiki pedagogy - A tale of two Wikis"; and "Selecting ICT based solutions for quality learning and sustainable practice" (2007). These outputs explore student problem-solving in coding, teacher challenges in non-specialist contexts, scoping reviews of coding integration, and historical developments in digital lecture technologies and collaborative tools.