Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!jlk From: jlk@daimi.aau.dk (J|rgen Lindskov Knudsen) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel Subject: CFP: ECOOP'96 Educator's Symposium Date: 14 Apr 1996 21:36:35 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 221 Message-ID: <4krr53$1e3@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk> Reply-To: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk (Jorgen Lindskov Knudsen) NNTP-Posting-Host: fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:54137 comp.lang.beta:10723 comp.lang.c++:178668 comp.lang.eiffel:22757 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECOOP'96 Educator's Symposium (ECOOP-ES'96) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Gert Florijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Addresses: Jørgen 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: Jørgen 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.