workshops

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Since the emergence of Object Technology, users of OT have needed to be trained in its concepts and techniques, and educators and trainers have been struggling with how they can make teaching OT easier. OT is hard to teach because the paradigm shift applies equally to both students and teachers.

Pedagogical Patterns, which are patterns for teaching OOT and Empowering in Communication, a technique for reflective learning that encourages and motivates students to learn by using their own experience and then teaching other students what they've learned. Both techniques seem to be great ideas but we trainers often think that we never can use these methodologies because our students wouldn't take us seriously. In order to be successful in using these tools we have to change our attitudes.

In the proposed workshop we would like to collect the problems that occur over and over again when educating in academia or industry. The objective of this workshop is not collecting pedagogical patterns, although this could also happen as a side effect, but to explore a different teaching approach. The focus will be on how we as trainers have to change our thinking to use this different style of teaching.

Organizers:

Jutta Eckstein, Integral Development GmbH
Email: jeckstein@acm.org  

Richard S. Wiener, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs