Workshops

#1

Curriculum Design for Computer Engineering and Information Technology

Abstract

Participants attending this conference workshop will learn about the development of computer engineering as well as information technology curricular reports. They will assist in the revision process to update the joint ACM and IEEE documents known as CE2004 and IT2008, respectively. The objective is to ensure that the new documents, CE2016 and IT2017, are forward-looking summaries of educational practices in their respective fields. Although the workshop will have an overarching purpose, participation will first focus on computer engineering and then on information technology.

Content

The workshop provides an overview of curricular development activities affecting computing and engineering. It will also include discussion surrounding the two areas on ways to generate modern futuristic curricula, principally in computer engineering and information technology. While preliminary investigations found that the documents CE2004 and IT2008 are basically sound, recommended revisions are necessary, given the significant advances in computer engineering and information technology that have occurred in recent years. Through audience participation, the workshop presents the work of the CE2016 and IT2017 steering committees, solicits suggestions for improvement, and share results with professional communities.

Agenda

The workshop consists of two ninety-minute segments. Since the two curricular projects are similar in form, the presentation will be in a blended fashion to allow participants to compare and contrast the two activities. During the first segment, discussion will focus on curricular overview and computer engineering; during the second segment, discussion will focus on information technology and overall recommendations from the workshop efforts.

Participant Background

This conference workshop is an effort to engage those interested in computer engineering or information technology curricular activities the opportunity to discuss and evaluate the current CE2016 and IT2017 drafts and to recommend changes for further revisions. Participants should have some background and interest in computing education. The intent is to foster strong interaction in an effort to refine the current bodies of knowledge and associated documents. Participants will become fully engaged in working on some elements of the body of knowledge and on other aspects of the draft documents. Participants have an opportunity to become reviewers of the evolving documents.

Presenter

John.Impagliazzo@Hofstra.edu

Professor Emeritus John Impagliazzo has supported many educational computing activities that include eighteen books and contributions to model computing and engineering curricula. He was a principal co-author and editor of the IEEE/ACM Computer Engineering Curriculum Report (CE2004) and an active participant on the task force that produced the ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2005 Report (CC2005). Currently, he is co-chair of the CE2016 steering committee, a member of the IT2017 executive committee, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Inroads. Impagliazzo is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Educator of ACM, and a Fellow of CSAB. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Foundation, the ACM Education Board, and the ACM Education Council.

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#2

Addressing the Publication Review Criteria for the IEEE Transactions on Education

Expected Background Knowledge of Participants

Interest in publishing work on scholarship of engineering education in the fields of electrical engineering, software engineering, computer engineering, computer science and other fields within the scope of the interest of IEEE

Workshop Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the three areas of scholarship appropriate for the IEEE Transactions on Education
• Select the appropriate area of scholarship for their manuscript submission
• Explain the review criteria for each area of scholarship
• Evaluate the degree to which potential manuscript addresses each of the review criteria

Facilitator

Jeffrey E. Froyd has served as the Editor‐in‐Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education since September 2012. Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose‐Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is a TEES Research Professor in the Office of Engineering Academic and Student Affairs at Texas A&M University, College Station. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change, curriculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co‐chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor‐in‐Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Education, a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of STEM Education.

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#3

Digital Safety in Schools

Abstract

Nowadays school as well society empowers usage of digital devices and internet starting from the first grade. Schools are connected with internet and equipped with different digital devices connected to the internet computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones etc. Students are often using own devices the famous BYOD (bring your own device) has been common practice in lots of schools, but some still struggle. This brings the main question into account how is digital safety ensured and delivered in the schools? Technological settings of software and network devices are important, but crucial role plays people's (students, parents, teachers, school leaders and ICT support) awareness about digital safety and behaviour in internet. In this workshop the participants will discuss rules, regulations, roles, rights and limitations in the area through different cases and learn about the best practices about digital safety in schools.

Agenda

• Intro and overview of the current situation in Estonia (secondary school and gymnasium level) curricula, teachers and schools readiness to tackle the issues, the example of the Safer Internet Centre program in Estonia SIC EE II, materials used in trainings, research done in that field in Estonia.
• Discussion of cases (detect challenges in the area, propose solutions) active learning (6 cases will be introduced, groups will investigate and propose solutions: detecting challenges, sharing ideas of solving the issue, propose rules or regulations. Every group will tell about their case, introduce the poster that they have created and share what they have discussed and what they have drawn to the posters. Cases are chosen considering student behaviour, teacher responsibilities, school environment (possibilities to be innovative and creative).
• Evaluation of the school safeness level what tools should we use, what kind of evidence should we gather, when will we determine that something is not right and someone should act and where to turn for help? (seminar: lecture with discussion and ideas gathering)
• Sharing best practices: technologyrelated solutions (passwords, policies, technological and centralized limitations, possibilities) (seminar: lecture with discussion and idea gathering)

Pre-knowledge of the attendees

There is no special knowledge requirement

Facilitator

• Edmund Laugasson, PhD student, analyst and system administrator at Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics, Digital Safety Lab, INFO: http://www.tlu.ee/dsl
• Birgy Lorenz, PhD student and project manager at Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics, Digital Safety Lab and ICT development manager and teacher at Pelgulinna Gymnasium
• Aare Klooster, PhD student at Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics, Digital Safety Lab and ICT development manager at Tallinn School of Economics

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#4

Practical workshop in competence based e-learning environment

Abstract

Participants attending this workshop in conference will learn how learning environment with competence-based approach is functioning in real learning process. They can work as (virtual) students, solving tasks, making lab experiments and can follow how their actions in the system. Access to the website will be open for participants prior to the conference and therefore it is possible to follow forgetting mechanism in working.

Workshop Content

Participants attending this workshop in conference will learn how learning environment with competence-based approach is functioning in real learning process. They can work as (virtual) students, solving tasks, making lab experiments and can follow how their actions in the system. Access to the website will be open for participants prior to the conference and therefore it is possible to follow forgetting mechanism in working.

Workshop Agenda

Workshop is organized in the following way. Participants register before to book a place and lab kit for 1 hour time slots. Average time for one solution may be about 1 – 4 minutes depending on complexity and pre-knowledge. Ability levels are determined by automatic analysis of answers.

Competences can be chosen manually in high and medium granularity view or automatic suggestion. Current state and prediction of ability levels for up to 1 year are available during workshop and after. Participants will have early connection to the site; they can login, solve some problems, look into the site (lab), view lab kits, and book their time slots. One person can book several time slots but recommendation is not more than 2 slots without break.

Available time slots will be determined on the basis of booking information one week before conference. Registration is open during the conference but selection of time slots may be limited. Potential participants can also see more presentations illustrating students’ behavior, learning tracks etc in advance before and/or after logging into ISC.

Teacher’s views will only be available on site.

Pre-knowledge of the attendees

Basic mathematical, electrical and/or computer skills.

Presenters

Kadri Umbleja is third year PhD student in Department of Computer Control in Tallinn University of Technology. She has worked on the ISC e-learning system for more than five years and written multiple papers about competence-based learning and its benefits. Her research interests in addition to competence-based approach are visualization, data-mining, symbolic data analysis. E-Mail: kadri.umbleja@ttu.ee

Martin Jaanus. PhD, is Associate Professor in Department of Computer Control in Tallinn University of Technology. He has worked on the ISC e-learning system more than 10 years, composed most of lab assignments in this learning environment, and designed devices, included in HomeLabKit. His research interest are also in electronics. E-Mail: Martin.jaanus@ttu.ee

Vello Kukk is professor of Circuit Theory and Design, Tallinn University of Technology; he is Senior member of IEEE. E-Mail: vello.kukk@ttu.ee

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