Chair: Mahesh H. Dodani, IBM Global Services
The Educators' Symposium presents a unique forum for professionals who have a vested interest in OO education and training. This year, the Symposium will address the three T's of education and training which have been identified as key factors for success in the 21st Century: Thinking, Technology, and Teamwork. Experienced educators and trainers will guide Symposium participants through a series of exercises and discussions to address the main issues governing the three T's and to form a list of action items for addressing these issues immediately.
8:30-9:30AM - Welcome and Invited Speaker
Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology
"Opening Remarks from the Symposium Guide"
Alistair will guide us through the issues and problems that we will address, and summarize the Symposium at the end of the day.
Alistair was the focal point for OO in the IBM Consulting Group in the early 90's, where he wrote its OO development methodology, acted as project consultant and designer, and taught the introductory course in OO design and programming. He founded Humans and Technology in 1974 to follow interests in cognitive, cultural, and human aspects of software development. He has written several organization-wide methodologies, working from an ethnographic basis. His courses revolve around evaluating and communicating designs. He is a team leader, technical facilitator and project management consultant. He just completed the book, "Surviving Your OO Project".
Alistair has spent the last half decade carving out a niche in OO education and training as it relates to the three T's. His wide range of experience in helping humans transition into OO thinking, using OO technology, and working in a team environment, makes him the ideal Guide for this years' Symposium.
9:30-11:00AM
Exercise: "Thinking OO"
Symposium participants will break up into groups to address the following questions:
11:00AM-12:00PM
Panel: "Thinking OO"
Participant Teams will present summaries from their previous work. A group of educators with experience in "Thinking OO" will help discuss the issues:
Moderator: - Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology
Panelists:
"Beyond Objects"
Lynn Andrea Stein (MIT)
"Web Based Teaching of OOP and Software Design"
Yossi Gil (Technion University, Israel)
"Resources for Object Design Education" (Workshop)
Robert Biddle (Victoria University, New Zealand)
"A Paradigm Shift in Teaching OOT"
Jutta Eckstein (ParcPlace GmbH, Germany)
1:00-1:45PM - Invited Speaker
"Technology for OO Education and Training"
Adele Goldberg, Neometron
This part of the Symposium will address the following issues: (1) Which aspects of OO education and training require new teaching and learning approaches? (2) How can our OO education and training community address the need for new approaches? (3) What technological mechanisms and tools are needed to support, evaluate and disseminate these new approaches?
Adele will address the above issues in the context of her current work on LearningWorks, a system for teaching about building systems or learning in a social virtual reality. She will also present the current technologies that will have an impact on OO learning and teaching including MUDs, MOOs, Lego Robotics Competitions, as well as various simulation-based exploratory worlds.
Adele is a pioneer of OO technology. Adele received her Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Chicago, and spent 14 years as researcher and laboratory manager of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She founded ParcPlace-Digitalk, and served as Chairman of the Board until 1996. She is the designer and instigator behind the LearningWorks freeware. From 1984-1986, Adele served as president of the ACM. Adele has authored numerous papers and books on Smalltalk, project management and analysis methodology using object-oriented technology.
Adele was recipient of the ACM Systems Software Award in 1987 along with Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay, PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contributions to the personal computer industry, is a Fellow of the ACM, and was honored in 1995 with the Reed College Howard Vollum Award for contributions to science and technology.
1:45-2:30PM
Panel: "Technology for OO Education and Training"
A panel of educators with experience in "Technology for OO E&T" will help discuss issues and approaches.
Moderator: - Adele Goldberg, Neometron
Panelists:
"The Case for Design Heuristics in OO Curricula"
Cleveland Gibbon (University of Nottingham, UK)
"Pedagogical Patterns" (Workshop)
Mary Lynn Manns (Univ. North Carolina, Asheville)
"A Virtual Environment for teaching OO Software Development"
Ivan Tomek (Acadia University, Canada)
"Using Use Case Modeling in Teaching OO System Analysis and Design"
Kevin Dittman (Purdue University)
3:00-3:30PM
Exercise: "Teamwork in OO Learning"
Symposium participants will break up into groups to address the following questions:
3:30-4:00PM
Panel: "Teamwork in OO Learning"
Participant Groups will present summaries from their previous work. A panel of educators with experience in "Teamwork in OO Learning" will help with the discussion:
Moderator: - Mahesh Dodani, IBM Global Services
Panelists:
"University/Industry Collaboration in Large-Scale Object Systems
Education"
Edward Gehringer (North Carolina State University), Sandeep Singhal (IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center )
"Doing Your First OO Project" (Workshop)
Juergen Boerstler (Umee University, Sweden)
"Technological Support for an Apprenticeship in OO Design and Programming"
Mark Guzdial (Georgia Institute of Technology)
4:30-5:15PM
"Recommendations for OO Education and Training"
Symposium participants will break up into groups to prepare a set of recommendations for OO Education and Training. In particular, groups will tackle the following on how to move OO Education and Training forward into the 21st Century: (1) What are the main issues and problems that OO Education and Training will face in the near future? (Tackle issues/problems related to Thinking, Technology, and Teamwork.) (2) What can "we" (as Educators and Trainers) do to extend the state of our business to handle the issues/problems? (3) Prioritize the actions identified in (2) by their value, and identify how easy or difficult it would be to do.
Each group will present its recommendations to all the participants. After these presentations, each participant will be asked to identify: (1) Two ways to improve the curriculum that you are involved with by addressing one or more of the issues raised in the presentations. (2) What are you personally willing to work on.
5:15-5:30PM
"Final Thoughts From the Symposium Guide"
Alistair Cockburn (Humans and Technology)
Alistair will summarize the Symposium bringing out the issues that were raised and possible avenues for taking action to address these issues in the near future.
OOPSLA '97 Educators Scholarships
OOPSLA '97 is proud to announce the availability of scholarships for educators from 2 and 4 year colleges to attend the Educators' Symposium and Conference. These scholarships are sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). Scholarship recipients will be reimbursed for the following expenses:
The deadline for applying for the Educators' Scholarships is July 14, 1997. Application forms and further information regarding the Scholarships are available by contacting the Educators' Symposium Chair:
Mahesh Dodani
4828 Oak Way
Raleigh, NC 27613 USA
Email: dodani@vnet.ibm.com
Phone: +1-919-848-9898
Fax: +1-919-254-3449
Other Educator Events at OOPSLA'97
Educators and trainers are encouraged to attend the two tutorials and four workshops addressing OO education and training issues, which are scheduled on Sunday, October 5, 1997. The Educator Symposium Panel on Thursday, October 9, 1997 will address issues related to Thinking, Teamwork and Technology as it applies to OO Education and Training.
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