workshops

sunday

Last year we organized and participated in a very successful OOPSLA workshop on Reuse in the Curriculum. It attracted forty participants from four continents, which made it the largest of all the workshops at OOPSLA `97. Out of that workshop grew a database of courses in object technology ( http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/project/csc/reuse-workshop/database.html ). The goal of this year's workshop is to encourage reuse of those course materials, and to offer guidance to educators in how to make their course materials reusable.

As we did last year, we want to differentiate the focus of this workshop from the focus of the Educators' Symposium. OOPSLA Educators' Symposia have been very effective in spreading the word about what can be done in an object-technology curriculum. But they have provided very little help in actually implementing these ideas. What was needed then was an opportunity for educators to get together and share course materials. Now that we have had that opportunity, we need to get together and discuss our experiences in reusing those materials.

Each participant will be asked to reuse at least one lecture or programming assignment, or several exam questions, from our reuse database or from a colleague whose materials are available on the Web. Participants will prepare a short report on their experiences, and submit it as their application to participate in the workshop. We will allow prospective reports ("here is the exercise I am going to reuse, and here are what I think the problems will be"), but participants should actually reuse it by the time of the workshop, and be prepared to report on their experiences.

Organizers:

Edward F. Gehringer, NCSU
Email: efg@eos.ncsu.edu  

Donald J. Bagert, Texas Tech University