ICTEM Program (draft 11 June 02)

IFIP WG3.2 Working Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice - ICTEM 2002

Florianópolis - Brazil

10-12 July, 2002

Conference Program
Tuesday, 9 July

17:00-18:00 Meeting of Working Group Chairs and Rapporteurs

Wednesday, 10 July

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
8h30-9h35	Opening and Keynote Eric Roberts
9h35-10h00	Break
10h00-11h15	Theme Papers
11h15-12h30	WG 1 - session 1	WG 2 - session 1	WG 3 - session 1
12h30-13h45	Lunch
13h45-15h00	Theme Papers
15h00-15h30	Break
15h30-17h30	WG1 - session 2	WG 2 - session 2	WG 3 - session 2

8:30-9:35 Opening and keynote: Eric Roberts, CC2001 and the challenge of defining an international curriculum.

9:35-10:00 Break

10:00-10:25 Theme paper: Luiz Merkle & Robert Mercer, Variations in computing science’s disciplinary diversity: The case of curricula recommendations.

10:25-10:50 Theme paper: Fred Mulder, Karel Lemmen, & Maartin van Veen, Variety in views of university curriculum schemes for informatics/computing/ICT.

10:50-11:15 Theme paper: Ralf Denzer, A computing program for scientists and engineers – What is the core of computing?

11:15-12:30 Working group sessions 1 (introductions, overview) (breakout)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:10 Theme paper: Andrew McGettrick, Benchmark standards for computing in the UK.

14:10-14:35 Theme paper: Douglas Blank & Deepak Kumar, Patterns of curriculum design.

14:35-15:00 Theme paper: Torsten Brinda, Student experiments in object-oriented modelling.

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:30 Working group sessions 2 (paper presentations) (breakout)

Working group 1 papers:

Clara de Oliveira, A complex approach on informatics curricula under thematic oriented methodology.

Ellen Barbosa, Jose Maldonado, & Ivan Ricarte, Learning materials: Towards the establishment of guidelines for domain modeling.

Bertilo Becker & Afonso Orth, Process oriented software engineering teaching.

A. Ferreira, R. Tori, A. Battaiola, & N. Elias, Game technology as an educational tool.

Working group 2 papers:

Juris Reinfelds, Teaching of programming with a programmer’s theory of programming.

Maria Lisboa, Cassia Perego, & Silvia Bertagnolli, Introductory programming: Moving from Pascal to Java.

Working group 3 papers:

Richard LeBlanc, Curriculum models and meta-criteria for curriculum design (position paper).

F. Moraes, A. Zorzo, & N. Calazans, Deriving different computer science curricula from a common core of disciplines.

C. Costa & J. Audy, A curriculum model for information systems courses.

Paolo Rocchi, On the cruelty of teaching informatics.

Zeljko Panian, The four-tier model of information literacy enhancement.

Thursday, 11 July

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
8h30-10h00	WG 1 - session 3	WG 2 - session 3	WG 3 - session 3
10h00-10h30	Break
10h30-11h15	Keynote - Juan Alvarez
11h15-12h30	Theme Papers
12h30-14h00	Lunch
14h00-15h40	WG1 - session 4	WG 2 - session 4	WG 3 - session 4
15h40-16h00	Break
16h00-17h30	WG1 - session 5	WG 2 - session 5	WG 3 - session 5
17h30-18h30	IFIP WG3.2 Meeting
18h30-19h30	Break
19h30-21h00	Banquet

8:30-10:00 Working group sessions 3 (completion of papers, begin discussions) (breakout)

Working group 1 papers:

Jens Kaasboll & Esselina Macome, Developing sustainable research education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

R. Sadananda, Pressures of change in computer science education (position paper).

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-11:15 Keynote: Juan Alverez, Innovations in objectives, contents, methodology, and evaluation in a first and massive computing course.

11:15-11:40 Theme paper: Elliot Koffman, Input/output for a CS1 course in Java.

11:40-12:05 Theme paper: Raul Wazlawick & Antonio Mariani, Programming strategies using an actor-based environment.

12:05-12:30 Theme paper: Peter Van Roy & Seif Haridi, Teaching programming broadly and deeply: The kernel language approach.

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:40 Working group sessions 4 (discussion) (breakout)

15:40-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30 Working group sessions 5 (breakout) (discussion and formulation of preliminary report)

17:30-18:30 IFIP WG3.2 Meeting (for members and interested guests)

18:30-19:30 Break

19:30-21:00 Banquet

Friday, 12 July

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
8h30-10h10	Theme Papers
10h10-10h30	Break
10h30-12h00	WG Preliminary Reports
12h00-12h30	WG 1 - session 6	WG 2 - session 6	WG 3 - session 6
12h30-14h00	Lunch
14h00-15h30	Final WG Session
15h30-16h30	WG Final Reports

8:30-8:55 Theme paper: Dilvan Moreira & Elaine da Silva, A method to increase student interaction using student groups and peer review over the internet.

8:55-9:20 Theme paper: Vinicius Kern, Luciana Saraiva, & Roberto Pacheco, Peer review in education.

9:20-9:45 Theme paper: Amruth Kumar, Learning programming by solving problems.

9:45-10:10 Theme paper: Joberto Martins, Guilherme Neto, & Sérgio Brito, Interdisciplinary and flexible curricula practices in electric and telecommunications engineering – A case study.

10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Working group preliminary reports and discussion (plenary)

12:00-12:30 Working group sessions 6 (breakout - discussion of possible revisions)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Final working group session (breakout)

15:30-16:30 Working group final reports and conference adjournment (plenary)