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  1. How Can Open Source Prepare Your Students for Professional Practice?

    Article • February 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  2. Student Learning of Basic Git/GitHub Processes

    Article • June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  3. Computing for Social Good in Education

    Article • ACM Inroads, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis, Michael Goldweber, Professor Neil Andrew Gordon

  4. Exploring Open Source to Understand Large Software Projects

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  5. Humanitarian Open Source in the Classroom

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  6. Panel: Better Team Projects

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  7. Humanitarian Applications Increase Interest and Motivation of Women in Computing

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  8. Examples of computer science education for society

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis, Professor Neil Andrew Gordon

  9. Understanding and Tracking Computing Instructor Identity

    Article • March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  10. Preparing Students for Automated IT Workflows

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  11. Meaningful Course Evaluations

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis, Cara Tang

  12. The Power of Open Source for Social Good to Increase Diversity in Computing

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  13. A Survey of Instructors' Experiences Supporting StudentLearning using HFOSS Projects

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  14. Perspectives on Teaching Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (Abstract Only)

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  15. Pathways to Student Learning within HFOSS

    Article • September 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  16. Preparing to Teach Humanitarian Open Source (Abstract Only)

    Article • February 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis, Dr. S. Monisha Pulimood, Gina Likins

  17. FOSS Artifacts for Evaluating Students on Team Projects

    Article • September 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  18. A Multi-Institutional Study of Learning via Student Involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. S. Monisha Pulimood, Heidi Ellis

  19. Using humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) to introduce computing for the social good

    Article • ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  20. Impact of programming language on success in high school programming contests (abstract only)

    Article • March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis

  21. Teaching with HFOSS to provide students with real world experience

    Article • March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Heidi Ellis