Educators' Symposium Chair: Jutta Eckstein, edu_symp@oopsla.acm.org
3 April 2000: Submissions due
26 May 2000: Notification of acceptance
General Information
The Educators' Symposium is for professionals who have a vested interest in object technology education and training. This one-day symposium is a unique forum for academic and industry educators to discuss their needs and ideas for incorporating object technology into courses, curricula, and training plans under consideration of the human factor. The Symposium will include invited talks, short presentations, panels, workshop summaries, interactive exercises, posters and other opportunities to exchange course materials.
Submissions
OO educators and trainers from all levels of academia and industry are invited to send submissions. Submissions will be published in the Educators' Symposium proceeding notes. Selection will be based on clarity, originality, technical and educational merit, and, most of all, the potential relevance to other OO educators and trainers (the "reuse value"). The review committee will look for ideas that can be utilized by others at the Symposium (specific ideas for general use).
Acceptance of your paper only guarantees that it will be published in the Educators' Symposium proceeding notes. It does not guarantee that the one-day program will allow time to present it. However, all those with accepted papers will have the opportunity to participate in some way in the day's program.
Submissions that do not follow the guidelines stated in this document are not likely to be considered for review.
Submissions are solicited in the following four categories:
1. Experience paper
There is no doubt that all those in OO education and training face similar challenges. Submissions in this category will present a challenge encountered in an academic or industry environment and a description of an innovative idea that was used to meet that challenge. Everyone has something to contribute in this category. If you do not wish to submit a paper, please put your idea(s) on a poster.
Submissions in this category should cover one of - but are not limited to - the following experience domains:
- Teaching social skills
- Academia - Industry collaboration
- Case Study
Submissions must include the following sections
- Abstract
- Description of experience domain
- Description of the experience
- Suggestions for how your idea can be used by other OO educators (in other environments)
2. Research paper
Submissions in this category will report on a research project that contributes to knowledge in the field of OO education and training.
Submissions must include the following sections:
- Abstract
- Description of the research field
- Suggestions for how your findings are applicable to OO educators
3. Reports of other 1999/2000 OO education/training events
If you are organizing and/or participating in any OO education or training event, such as a workshop, working group, or conference during the year (or at OOPSLA 2000), we want to hear about it. Submissions in this category can include a description of an upcoming event if the event is being held after the March deadline.
Submissions must include the following sections:
- Description of the event
- Expected outcomes
- Actual outcomes (if the event has already occurred)
- Suggestions for what educators can do with the outcomes
4. Mini Poster
All attendees are asked to bring a small poster (3 ft. x 3 ft. or smaller) to the Symposium, to be displayed on boards throughout the room. This is an additional opportunity to share the materials you use in your classrooms (exercises, effective evaluation questions and methods, course materials and handouts, a web page address (with the contents of that page), description of course needs, things you want to brag about or advertise, anything!). Nothing fancy is needed. Proposals are not required. Feel free to grab some materials as you run out the door to OOPSLA and simply tack them up on the boards when you enter the Symposium.
