Dr. Oladele O. Campbell – Academic Portfolio

Personal Profile

Dr. Oladele Campbell is a Principal Lecturer at Niger State Polytechnic, Zungeru, Nigeria, with nearly three decades of experience in computer science education, administration, and research.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science Education, University of South Africa (2022)
• MSc in Computer Science, University of Ibadan (2003)
• BSc in Computer Science, University of Ibadan (1994)

Memberships

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, Nigeria Computer Society

Recognition

• Senior Member, ACM (2021)
• Member, Regional Advisory Committee for CompEd 2025

Highlighted Publications

• Krause Levy, S., Petersen, A., Campbell, O. O., et al. (2025). Multi institutional study on impostor phenomenon. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
• Fitsum Deriba et al. (2024). Computer Programming Education in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Empirical Research. PDF
• Campbell, O.O., Sanusi, I. T. & Atagana, H. I. (2024). From Visual Arts to Programming… ITiCSE Proceedings.
•  Campbell, O. O., et al. (2023). The Impacts of a Constructionist Scratch Programming Pedagogy… CompEd Proceedings
• Campbell, O. O. & Atagana, H. I. (2022). Impact of a Scratch programming intervention… Heliyon

Research Interests

Engaging CS education; Novice programming education; Generative AI; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; the impostor phenomenon; and professional dispositions.

Capstone Project Portal

This system facilitates final year project topic submission… Built using Flask with a Google Apps Script back‑end.

• Features: Topic uniqueness, supervisor approval workflow, audit trail
• Technology: Flask; Google Apps Script; Google Sheets API
• Modules: AvailableTopics; TakenTopics; Approval Queue; Activity Log

Visit the Deployed Portal

Upcoming Teaching Innovations

Planning a series of interactive tutorials and workshops for first‑year programming courses…

Presenting at CompEd 2025

Dr. Campbell will present two papers at the Global Computing Education Conference, 21–25 October 2025, University of Botswana, Gaborone:

1. The Impostor Phenomenon Among Nigerian Computing Students…
2. Preliminary Insights into Computer Science Teacher Preparation…

Ongoing Research Project

Leading reflective‐intervention design for HND computing students at Niger State Polytechnic…

New Book Published

A Guided Introduction to C++ Programming is now available. Download here.

Recent Blog Post

Transforming CS1 Education with Constructionist Pedagogy

Mastery Learning in Action

Explore UC Berkeley’s ‘A’s for All’ pilot programme in mastery‑based grading… Read more.