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- From: jlk@daimi.aau.dk (J|rgen Lindskov Knudsen)
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- Subject: CFP: ECOOP'96 Educator's Symposium
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 21:36:35 GMT
- Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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- ECOOP'96 Educator's Symposium
- (ECOOP-ES'96)
-
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
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- Object oriented technology has now spread throughout the entire computer
- science landscape. This imposes a severe responsibility on the educational
- system to bring this technology into the entire computer science curriculum,
- ranging from introductory computer science, over high-level, advanced
- courses, to training of existing computer professionals.
-
- The Educator's Symposium will try to establish an European perspective on
- object oriented education by offering a forum for European object oriented
- educators to meet to present, compare, and discuss their approaches to the
- educational challenges.
-
- The Educator's Symposium will gather educators within Object Oriented
- Technologies together to discuss the challenges of object-oriented education
- at all levels. The aim of the symposium is to look at object oriented
- education in an European perspective to bring fourth the best of European
- educational experiences with the aim of advancing the object oriented
- educational programs throughout Europe. The symposium will also have a look
- at the professional training programs to discuss the possible challenges in
- education of the many existing computer professionals in the object oriented
- technologies.
-
- The symposium will be organised with a mixture of invited speakers,
- presentations, and most importantly open discussions. You are invited to
- submit full papers to be reviewed for clarity, originality and insights, and
- the best ones will be selected for presentation at the symposium.
-
- To sponsor the lively discussions, each symposium participant will be
- required to send in a position paper, including identification of at least
- one educational challenge. These challenges will form the basis for the open
- discussions.
-
- Deadlines
-
- Submission deadline (papers): May 10, '96
- Notification of acceptance (papers): May 24, '96
- Position papers: June 24, '96
- Camera-ready versions of papers: June 24, '96
- Workshop (exact date to be announced): July 8, '96 or July 9, '96
-
-
- Organisation
-
- Organisers:
- J°rgen Lindskov Knudsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Gert Florijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Addresses:
- J°rgen Lindskov Knudsen
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Aarhus
- Ny Munkegade 116
- DK-8000 Aarhus C, DENMARK
- e-mail: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk
- phone: +45 89 42 32 33
- fax: +45 89 42 32 55.
-
- Gert Florijn,
- Department of Computer Science
- Utrecht University,
- Padualaan 14
- P.O.Box 80.089
- 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
- e-mail: florijn@cs.ruu.nl
- phone: +31-30-2531807
- WWW Home Page:
- http://www.daimi.aau.dk/ecoop-es96
-
- The symposium will be organised in the following format (subject to change,
- depending on the submitted papers and proposals):
-
- Morning:
- Welcome
- Paper presentations
- Discussions
- Discussion themes will be settled in advance, but adjusted
- 'online' to match the interests of the participants.
- Afternoon:
- Successes and Challenges in Teaching Object Technology
- Panel session
- Open Discussions
- Including discussions on forming an Educator's Network.
-
- The session on "Successes and Challenges in Teaching Object Technology" is
- organised jointly with Mary Lynn Manns, Maximo Prieto, Phil McLaughlin, and
- Helen Sharp.
-
- Submissions
-
- All submissions should be send in three paper copies to the following
- address:
-
- J°rgen Lindskov Knudsen
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Aarhus
- Ny Munkegade 116
- DK-8000 Aarhus C, DENMARK
- e-mail: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk
- phone: +45 89 42 32 33
- fax: +45 89 42 32 55
-
- Electronical submissions are also possible to the above address. However,
- only submissions send in paper copies are guaranteed to be available in
- print for the workshop attendees. Electronical submissions are only accepted
- in the following formats: ASCII, DVI, PostScript and HTML. Possible printing
- problems of electronical submissions are solely the responsibility of the
- submitter. Electronical submissions will be made electronical available for
- the workshop attendees before the workshop.
-
- Submissions in the form of papers may be between 3-15 pages. Position paper
- submissions should be 2-4 pages.
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-
- Discussion themes
-
- Are OT any different any different that structured programming when it comes
- to education. E.i. should OT be taught as a subject on its own, or is it
- time to incorporate it 'the natural way to program', just as structured
- programming have been 'the natural way to program' in the last decade.
-
- Please submit proposals for discussion themes. As they arrive, they will be
- reviewed and possibly be added to this list. See the Educator's Symposium
- WWW Home Page for updated information
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-
- Session: Successes and Challenges in Teaching Object Technology
-
- Leaders:
-
- Mary Lynn Manns, University of North Carolina at Asheville,
- Computer Science Dept., Asheville, NC 28804, USA; voice:
- 704-251-6446; fax: 704-251-6041; manns@unca.edu
-
- Maximo Prieto, Lifia - Universidad de La Plata, cc11, La Plata,
- (1900) BA, Argentina; voice/fax: +54 (21) 22-8252,
- maximo@info.unlp.edu.ar
-
- Phil McLaughlin, Staffordshire University, School of Computing,
- Trent Building, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 2AZ;
- voice: (+44) 1782 294159; fax: (+44) 1782 294026;
- P.McLaughlin@soc.staffs.ac.uk
-
- Helen Sharp, The Open University, Computing Department, Walton
- Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK; voice: (0)1908 655098; fax:
- (0)1908 652140; h.c.sharp@open.ac.uk.
-
- The process of training, retraining, and, most of all, educating people in
- object technology is an ongoing challenge which has many unanswered
- questions. This workshop will gather together those who wish to present and
- discuss their individual successes and failures/challenges with teaching OT.
-
- Each participant's paper should address two specific teaching approaches,
- one which succeeded and one which did not. Specifically, all contributions
- should be organized with at least two sections, as follows:
-
- 1. An example of a specific approach which has failed or is a challenge to
- teach:
- o description of the approach
- o description of audience to which the approach was delivered
- o author's opinion on why it fails (or is a challenge)
- o (optional) author's thoughts on potential solutions
- 2. An example of a specific approach which succeeds:
- o description of the approach
- o description of audience to which the approach was delivered
- o author's opinion on how and why the approach succeeds
- o if applicable, author's thoughts on how the success in this
- approach may be applied to teaching other OT topics
-
- Each section may address two different topics OR may address the same topic
- if the author had an experience which first failed, was modified, and
- subsequently succeeded. Description of the approaches should be concrete and
- complete with a good explanation of why they worked or did not work.
-
- The topics of the approaches may be, but certainly are not limited to the
- following: polymorphism, inheritance, abstract classes, standard protocols,
- design patterns and frameworks, reuse, databases, etc.
-
- Papers of 4-8 pages in length are solicited.
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- Official Workshop Announcement
-
- This is the official workshop announcement, as printed in the ECOOP'96 call
- for participation:
-
- WS 12: ECOOP'96 Educator's Symposium
-
- Organizers:
- J. Lindskov Knudsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- G. Florijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Contact:
- jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk
- URL:
- http://www.daimi.aau.dk/ecoop-es96
- Day:
- Monday
-
- The wide-spread use of OO technology imposes a severe responsibility on the
- educational system to bring this technology into the entire computer science
- curriculum, both academic and professional. The Educator's Symposium will
- try to establish an European perspective on OO education by offering a forum
- for European OO educators to meet to present, compare, and discuss their
- approaches to the educational challenges. The Educator's Symposium will
- gather educators within Object Oriented Technologies together to discuss the
- challenges of object-oriented education at all levels. The aim of the
- symposium is to look at object oriented education in an European perspective
- to bring fourth the best of European educational experiences with the aim of
- advancing the object oriented educational programs throughout Europe. The
- symposium will also have a look at the professional training programs to
- discuss the possible challenges in education of the many existing computer
- professionals in the object oriented technologies. It will comprise invited
- speakers, presentations, and open discussions. Full papers are solicited.
-
-