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Smith, Neil; Richards, Mike and Cabrero, Daniel G. (2018). Summer of Code: Assisting Distance-Learning Students with Open-Ended Programming Tasks. In: ITiCSE 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ACM, New York, pp. 224–229.

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Smith, Neil; Caldwell, Helen and Richards, Mike (2017). A Comparison of MOOC Development and Delivery Approaches. In: Childs, Mark and Soetanto, Robby eds. Online Learning for STEM Subjects: International Examples of Technologies and Pedagogies in Use. Routledge.

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Smith, Neil; Richards, Michael; Caldwell, Helen and Bandara, Arosha (2017). A comparison of MOOC development and delivery approaches. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 34(2) pp. 152–164.

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Smith, Neil; Caldwell, Helen and Richards, Mike (2016). A comparison of MOOC development and delivery approaches. In: International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education, ICICTE.

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Smith, Neil; Allsop, Yasemin; Caldwell, Helen; Hill, David; Dimitriadi, Yota and Csizmadia, Andrew Paul (2015). Master Teachers in Computing: what have we achieved? In: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (Gal-Ezer, Judith; Sentence, Sue and Vahrenhold, Jan eds.), ACM, pp. 21–24.

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Smith, Neil and Caldwell, Helen (2015). Ubiquitous computing devices in the training of teacher-trainers. In: The International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE 2015) Proceedings (Morris, Linda and Tsolakidis, Costas eds.), pp. 42–50.

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Smith, Neil; Sutcliffe, Clare and Sandvik, Linda (2014). Code Club: bringing programming to UK primary schools through Scratch. In: 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 14), 5-8 Mar 2014, Atlanta, GA, ACM, pp. 517–522.

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French, Fiona; Mancini, Clara; Smith, Neil and Sharp, Helen (2014). Designing smart toys for the cognitive enrichment of elephants. In: First Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Animal Welfare, Proceedings of the 50th Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 1-4 Apr 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Kortuem, Gerd; Bandara, Arosha; Smith, Neil; Richards, Michael and Petre, Marian (2013). Educating the Internet-of-Things generation. Computer, 46(2) pp. 53–61.

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Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2012). Automatically assessing free-form diagrams in e-assessment systems. In: STEM Annual Conference 2012: Aiming for excellence in STEM learning and teaching, 12-13 Apr 2012, Imperial College London.

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Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2011). Generalised diagramming tools with automatic marking. Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 10(1) pp. 22–34.

Richards, Michael and Smith, Neil (2010). Teaching UbiComp with Sense. In: NordiCHI, 16-20 Oct 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Smith, Neil; Thomas, Pete and Waugh, Kevin (2010). Diagram interpretation and e-learning systems. In: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 6th International Conference, Diagrams 2010, Portland, OR, USA, August 9-11, 2010. Proceedings (Goel, Ashok K.; Jamnik, Mateja and Narayanan, N. Hari eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,, Springer, Berlin, pp. 331–333.

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Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2009). Generalised diagram revision tools with automatic marking. In: 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 6-9 Jul 2009, Paris, France, pp. 318–322.

Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2009). The role of labels in the automatic assessment of graph-based diagrams. In: 23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, 7-10 Jun 2009, Open Universiteit Nederland, Maastricht.

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Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2009). Automatically assessing diagrams. In: IADIS International Conference e-Learning, 17-20 Jun 2009, Algarve, Portugal.

Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2008). Automatically assessing graph-based diagrams. Learning, Media and Technology, 33(3) pp. 249–267.

Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2008). Automatic assessment of sequence diagrams. In: 12th International CAA Conference: Research into e-Assessment, 8-9 Jul 2008, Loughborough University, UK.

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Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2008). A revision tool for teaching and learning sequence diagrams. In: Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008, 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2008, Vienna, Austria.

Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2007). Learning and automatically assessing graph-based diagrams. In: ALT-C 2007: Beyond Control, Learning Technology for the social network generation, 4-6 Sep 2007, Nottingham, UK.

Thomas, Pete G.; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin G. (2007). Computer assisted assessment of diagrams. In: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 25-27 Jun 2007, Dundee, Scotland.

Capiluppi, A.; Fernandez-Ramil, J.; Higman, J.; Sharp, H.C. and Smith, N. (2007). An Empirical Study of the Evolution of an Agile-Developed Software System. In: 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, 20-26 May 2007, Minneapolis, USA.

Hayes, Alan; Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2007). A Developmental Framework for Computer-based Automated Assessment.

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Waugh, Kevin; Thomas, Pete and Smith, Neil (2007). Teaching and learning applications related to the automated interpretation of ERDs. In: Title, Publisher, pp. 39–47.

Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2007). Tools for supporting the teaching and learning of data modelling. In: Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007, 25 Jun 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

Hayes, Alan; Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2007). A framework for the automated assessment of consistency between code and design. In: Informatics Education Europe II, 29-30 Nov 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Hayes, Alan; Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2007). An investigation into the the automated assessment of the design-code interface. In: 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007), 25-27 Jun 2007, Dundee.

Thomas, Pete; Smith, Neil and Waugh, Kevin (2006). An approach to the automatic grading of imprecise diagrams.

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Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2006). Using patterns in the automatic marking of ER-Diagrams. In: 11th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 26-28 Jun 2006, Bologna, Italy.

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Smith, N.; Capiluppi, A. and Fernandez-Ramil, J. (2006). Agent-based Simulation of Open Source Software Evolution. In: International Software Process Workshop and International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modelling, 20-21 May 2006, Shanghai, China.

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Smith, Neil; Capiluppi, Andrea and Fernandez-Ramil, Juan (2006). Users and developers: An agent-based simulation of open source software evolution. In: Wang, Q.; Pfahl, D.; Raffo, D. M. and Wernick, P. eds. Software Process Change, Volume 3966. Berlin: Springer, pp. 286–293.

Smith, Neil; Capiluppi, Andrea and Ramil, Juan F. (2005). A Study of Open Source Evolution Data using Qualitative Simulation. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 10(3) pp. 287–300.

Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil (2005). Experiments in the automatic marking of ER-Diagrams. In: 10th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 27-29 Jun 2005, Monte de Caparica, Portugal.

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Waugh, Kevin; Thomas, Pete and Smith, Neil (2004). Toward the automated assessment of entity-relationship diagrams. In: Second Workshop of the Learning and Teaching Support Network - Information and Computer Science) TLAD (Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases), 5 Jul 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Waugh, Kevin; Thomas, Pete and Smith, Neil (2004). Interpreting imprecise diagrams. In: Blackwell, Alan; Marriott, Kim and Shimojima, Atsushi eds. Diagrammatic representation and inference: Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, Cambridge, UK, March 22-24, 2004. Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science (2980). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 239 -241.

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Ramil, Juan F. and Smith, Neil (2002). Qualitative Simulation of Models of Software Evolution. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 7(3-4) pp. 95–112.