SRITEC 2001: Sydney Region IT Education Conventicle*

Date: Monday, November 26, 2001
Time: 9:45am to 4:30pm
Hosted by: Faculty Of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney
Where: Guthrie Theatre, Building 6, Harris Street, Ultimo
Convener: Dr. Raymond Lister, Faculty of Information Technology, UTS.
Email: raymond@it.uts.edu.au

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.

Attendance is free, but for planning and catering purposes, attendees should register by emailing there name and affiliation to Raymond Lister (raymond@it.uts.edu.au), by Friday November 16.

* from the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1976): Conventicle, n, Clandestine religious meeting