ITiCSE'99 -- Final Program

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1999

(See Campus Map for directions)

8:15 – 10:00 Opening Session, Hala Sportowa, Area A

10:00 - 10:45 Coffee & Poster Session 1, Hala Sportowa, Area C

10:45 - 12:20 Paper Session 1, Hala Sportowa, Area D

12:20 - 13:45 Lunch, Ustronie

13:45 - 15:20 Paper Session 2, Hala Sportowa, Area D

15:20 – 16:00 Coffee & Poster Session 2, Hala Sportowa, Area C

16:00 - 16:45 Paper Session 3, Hala Sportowa, Area D

16:45 – 18:00 Reception and Working Group Status, Hala Sportowa, Cafeteria

20:00 Conference Dinner & Social, Sukiennice Art Gallery, 2nd Floor, Market Square (Center of old town square)

 

OPENING SESSION, 8:15 – 10:00

Location: Hala Sportowa, Area A

8:15 Opening Remarks

Carl Erickson, Conference Co-chair, Grand Valley State University, USA

Tadeusz Wilusz, Conference Co-chair, Cracow University of Economics

8:30 Keynote Address

A Skeptic Assesses the Net as a Resource for Teaching

Robert Aiken, Temple University, USA

 

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION, 10:00 - 10:45

Location: Hala Sportowa, Area C

Posters:

Gathering and Disseminating Good Practice at Teaching and Learning Conferences, Ian Utting, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Didactics Too, Not Only Technology V. Dagdilelis, M. Satratzemi, University of Macedonia, Greece

Minimum Requirements for Effective Distance Teaching Systems, Geraldo Lino de Campos, Polytechnic School - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Combining the Metaphors of an Institute and of Networked Computers for Building Collaborative Learning Environments Yongwu Miao, Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Martin Wessner, German National Research Center for Information Technology

The Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process, Dariusz Put, Janusz Stal, Marek Zurowicz, Cracow Academy of Economics, Poland

On Distance Education Courseware, Marijana Lomic, Zoran Putnik, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

KPPCDL: An Internet Based Shared Environment for Introductory Programming Education, Alfred Rossi, Pace University, USA

IntraED – An Intranet Solution for EDucation, Jan Madej, Tadeusz Wilusz, Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Who Wants To Learn Online? Stuart Young, Ross Dewstow, Mae McSporran, UNITEC Institute of Technology, New Zealand

SESSION 1 (2 concurrent paper sessions), 10:45 - 12:20

Location: Hala Sportowa, Area D

Papers: Computer Science Education Research, Room 1

Chair: Joze Rugelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

10:45 WHY? When an Otherwise Successful Intervention Fails

Michael McCracken, Robert Waters, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

11:10 Gender and Programming - What’s Going On?

Janet Carter, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, Tony Jenkins, University of Leeds, UK

11:35 Research-led Innovation in Teaching and Learning

John Davy, Tony Jenkins, University of Leeds , UK

12:00 Thinking Parallel: The Process of Learning Concurrency

Mordechai Ben-Ari, Yifat Kolikant Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 

Papers: Different/New Approaches to Examination, Room 2

Chair: Christine Shannon, Centre College, USA

10:45 A Cognitive Framework for Knowledge in Informatics: The Case of Object-Orientation

Christian Holmboe, University of Oslo, Norway

11:10 On-line Programming Examinations Using WebToTeach

David Arnow, Oleg Barshay, Brooklyn College of City University of New York, USA

11:35 On Changing from Written to On-line Tests in Computer Science I: An Assessment

Amruth N. Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey , USA

12:00 Improving On-line Assessment: an Investigation of Existing Marking Methodologies

Jon A. Preston, Russell Shackelford, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

 

SESSION 2 (2 concurrent paper sessions), 13:45 - 15:20

Hala Sportowa, Area D

Papers: Need for Future Changes to Courses, Room 1

Chair: Helen Parker, University of Sheffield, UK

13:45 Curriculum and Teaching Delivery Change in an International Context

Bogdan Zoltowski, Technical University of Lodz, Poland, Roger Boyle, John Davy, University of Leeds, UK

14:10 Changing IS Curriculum and Methods of Instruction

Marian Kuras, Mariusz Grabowski, Agnieszka Zajac, Cracow Academy of Economics, Poland

14:35 CS1 Using Java Language Features Gently

Elliot Koffman, Temple University, USA

Ursula Wolz, The College of New Jersey, USA

15:00 Educating Systems Analysts Emphasizing the Human Factor

Hans Olav Omland, Agder College, Norway

 

Papers: Evaluating Teaching Methods, Room 2

Chair: Norbert J. Kubilus, The College of New Jersey, USA

13:45 Misconceptions of Designing: A Descriptive Study

Michael McCracken, Wendy Newstetter, and Jeff Chastine, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

14:10 Collaboration or Plagiarism: What Happens When Students Work Together

Janet Carter, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

14:35 A Special Learning Environment for Repeat Students

Judy Sheard and Dianne Hagan, Monash University, Australia

15:00 Is Your Degree Quality Endorsed?

Isaac Balbin, RMIT University, Australia

 

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION, 15:20 – 16:00

Location: Hala Sportowa, Area C

Posters:

Gathering and Disseminating Good Practice at Teaching and Learning Conferences

Ian Utting, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Internet Curriculum: Two Courses, Introductory and Advanced

Ernest Ackerman, Mary Washington College, USA

A Tool for Designing Java Programs with UML

Anna Armentrout, Pace University, USA

CacheSim: A Cache Simulator for Teaching Memory Hierarchy Behaviour

Luisa Córdoba Cabeza, M. Isabel García Clemente, M. Luz Rubio Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

Teaching Very Large Instruction Word Architectures

John Impagliazzo, Hofstra University, USA

Beginners Program Web Page Builders and Verifiers

Martha Kosa, Tennessee Technological University, USA

The System of Checking Students’ Knowledge with the Use of Wide Area Networks

Dariusz Put, Janusz Stal, Marek Zurowicz, Cracow Academy of Economics, Poland

ACOM: An Integrated Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Information Technology

Hannah Dee, Peter Reffell, University of Leeds, UK

MathLink: Linking Curriculum, Instructional Strategies, and Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Harriet Taylor, Louisiana State University, USA

 

SESSION 3, (2 concurrent paper sessions), 16:00 - 16:45

Location: Hala Sportowa, Area D

Papers: Distance Learning, Room 1

Chair: Masood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle University, USA

16:00 Distance Learning Model With Local Workshop Sessions Applied To In-Service Teacher Training

Bruria Haberman, David Ginat, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

16:25 Quality of Service over Ethernet for Telelearning Applications

José Manuel Arco, Bernardo Alarcos, A.M. Hellín, Daniel Meziat, University of Alcalá, Spain

 

Papers: Multimedia/Interactive Learning, Room 2

Chair: Jill Gerhardt-Powals, Richard Stockton College,USA

16:00 Assessing Object-Oriented Technology Skills Using an Internet-based System

Ahmed Seffah, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada, Bari Moncef, Department of education, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Michel Desmarais, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada

16:25 Interaction Processes in Network Supported Collaborative Concept Mapping

Chiung-hui Chiu, Chun-chieh Huang, Wen-tsung Chang, Tsung-ho Liang., Graduate Institute for Computer and Information Education, National Tainan Teachers College, Taiwan