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 Chair: Mary Lynn Manns University of North Carolina at Asheville The Educators' Symposium is the perfect opportunity for OO educators from both academia and industry to spend a full day sharing ideas while discussing and discovering solutions for their challenges. The program has every minute filled with invited talks, paper presentations, a panel, an afternoon activity session, and open mic and networking time. In addition, there will be ample opportunity for all attendees to become involved in the program with a "poster". Everyone is strongly encouraged to bring something to display on the poster boards throughout the room (course materials, lab exercises, evaluation methods, a "wanted" flyer, or anything you wish to brag about or publicize). Nothing fancy is needed (3 ft. x 3 ft. or smaller is preferred). Just grab some material to share as you run out the door to OOPSLA, and post it on the cork boards in the Symposium room.
Most curricula focus on the rudiments of software construction, such as programming languages, data structures, algorithms, and the theory beneath them. More advanced topics tend to focus on the specifics of broad areas like operating systems, data bases, and distributions, but little is taught about the general theory or practical application of design. Industry bears the brunt of ill-prepared professional hires - but industrial education programs fare little better. This talk raises awareness about the costs of poor design education and explores some possibilities for better preparing people to do the real work of the industry. "Mapping from an OO Design to a non-OO Implementation: A Classroom Perspective" "Teaching Concepts Effectively: A Practice Oriented Approach" "ResearchNoteCards: A Case Study for Analysis-level Object Identification" "Group Dynamics and Software Engineering" "Teaching by example is the only kind of teaching!" "Is the OO Mindset a Patterned One?" "Using Patterns to Teach Best Practice Approaches toward Object-Oriented Software Development" "Elementary Patterns in the Classroom" "An Interactive Environment for Discover the power of a project retrospective within a classroom - it's the beginning of creating a true learning organization. |
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