All IT academics in the Sydney region are invited to attend the inaugural Sydney Region IT Education Conventicle.
The day will feature a special presentation by the 1998 winner of the Prime Ministers Award for University Teacher of the Year, Angela Carbonne. Angela is a member of Monash University's Computing Education Research Group (CERG). Angela is part of the CERG project to survey best practise in ICT education across Australia, a project funded by the AUTC.
The day will also include a series of presentations by IT academics from the Sydney region, who will present their previously published work in IT education. The papers to be presented are:
University of Wollongong:
Anne Fuller, Gene Awyzio, Penney McFarlene
Using WebCT to Support Team Teaching.
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA. August 6-8, 2001. pp 315-318.
University of Western Sydney:
Ilona Box,
Experiences with an Online
Learning Package: Requirements to Reduce Overhead and Increase Functionality,
Useability and Consistency
Moving Online II, Gold Coast, Qld. September 2-4, 2001. pp: 41-53.
Sydney University:
Judy Kay will first give
an overview of the activities at Sydney University,
then there will be two presentations ...
Barg, M, K Crawford, A Fekete, T Greening, O Hollands, J Kay, J Kingston
(2000)
Problem-Based Learning for Foundation Computer Science courses,
Computer Science Education, 10(2) 1-20.
Fekete, A and R J Kummerfeld (2002),
Design of a Major in Software Development
to appear,
33rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2002).
University of Technology, Sydney:
Rist, R. S. (1996)
Teaching Eiffel as a first language.
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, March 1996, pp. 30-41.