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Call for Papers -
ECOOP2003 - 7th Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:45:32 -0600 (MDT)
To: SEWORLD@serl.cs.colorado.edu
From: Isabel Michiels <isabel.michiels@vub.ac.be>
Subject: (SEWORLD) CFP: ECOOP 03 Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning OO Concepts


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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                                    ECOOP 2003
                              Darmstadt, Germany
                 http://www.ecoop.tu-darmstadt.de/

                             Seventh Workshop on
                   Pedagogies and Tools for Learning
                         Object-Oriented Concepts
http://prog.vub.ac.be/~imichiel/ecoop2003/workshop

                           Monday July 21, 2003


                                      Organizers
    Isabel Michiels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
             Jürgen Börstler, Umeå University, Sweden
     Kim Bruce, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
Alejandro Fernandez, Fraunhofer IPSI, Daermstadt, Germany

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Overview
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The primary goal of learning and teaching object-oriented concepts
is to enable people to successfully participate in an object-oriented
development project.

Successfully applying object-oriented techniques in a software
engineering project requires a thorough understanding of basic OO
concepts. However, learning these techniques, as well as lecturing about
these concepts, have proven to be very difficult. Misconceptions can
occur during the learning cycle and the needed guidance can not always
be directly provided.

Teaching  the object-oriented paradigm in the same way as "traditional"
introductory programming courses does not appear to work very well.
In the pre-OO world, concepts could be introduced step by step and the
grouping of program elements could be handled as an afterthought.
There was no need to introduce high-level and abstract structures, like
modules or abstract data types, early on.

This is very different in the object-oriented paradigm, where the basic
concepts are tightly interrelated and seem not to be easily explained in
isolation. Instead they need to be handled in groups (like for example
variable, value, type, object, and class) making teaching and learning
more challenging. Grasping the "big picture" may furthermore be
hindered by focusing on notational details of specific object-oriented
programming languages. Most students therefore have difficulties
taking advantage of object-oriented concepts.

The goal of this workshop is to share ideas about innovative teaching
approaches, tools and learning environments to improve the teaching
and learning of the basic concepts of object technology rather than
teaching a specific programming language.

This is the seventh in a series of workshops on issues in
object-oriented teaching and learning. Previous workshops were held
at OOPSLA'97, ECOOP'98, OOPSLA'99, ECOOP'00, OOPSLA '01 and
ECOOP '02 and focused on project courses, classroom examples and
metaphors, objects-first and tools and environments.


Important Dates
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Call for Papers: February 19, 2003
Position paper due: May 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2003
Deadline for early registration: June 16, 2003
Workshop: Monday July 21, 2003

Contact address
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Isabel Michiels
isabel.michiels@vub.ac.be
http://prog.vub.ac.be/~imichiel/ecoop2003/workshop/
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                   Isabel Michiels
	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
	Departement Informatica (DINF)
  {~._.~}     Programming Technology Lab (PROG)
    ( Y )       Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussel - BELGIUM
()~*~()   Office at VUB: 10F708
(_)-(_)   Email: Isabel.Michiels@vub.ac.be
                   Tel:   +32 2 629 34 79
                   Fax:  +32 2 629 35 25
	ICQ:    37519925
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2nd Call for Papers -
ECOOP2003 - 7th Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

To: ecoop-info@ecoop.org
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:36:23 +0200
From: Isabel Michiels <isabel.michiels@vub.ac.be>
Subject: SECOND CALL: ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for
	Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

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Suggested Topics
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This workshop will focus on providing (computer-aided or not)
support for teaching the basic concepts of object technology. Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to

     * intelligent learning environments (for teaching object technology)
     * frameworks/toolkits/libraries for learning support
     * approaches and tools for teaching design early
     * different pedagogies
     * design early vs. design late
     * frameworks/toolkits for the development of teaching/learning
       applications
     * experiences with innovative CS1 curricula
     * usage of metaphors, analogies, and illustrative examples
     * distance education
     * ...

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Call for Papers -
ECOOP2003 - 7th Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:39:54 -0700 (MST)
To: SEWORLD@serl.cs.colorado.edu
From: Isabel Michiels <isabel.michiels@vub.ac.be>
Subject: (SEWORLD) CFP: ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for
  Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

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Call for Papers -
ECOOP2003 - 7th Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning Object-Oriented Concepts

To: ecoop-info@ecoop.org
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:27:40 +0100
From: Isabel Michiels <isabel.michiels@vub.ac.be>
Subject: CFP: ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for Learning
	Object-Oriented Concepts

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