WCCCE 2012 - 17th Western Canadian Conference on Computing EducationUniversity of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 4 - 5, 2012
Program Schedule
Day 1: May 4th | ||
| 8:00 AM -- 8:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM -- 9:00 AM | Welcome | |
| 9:00 AM -- 10:00 AM | Keynote Speaker: Christopher Hundhausen "Explorations of Studio-Based Learning in Computing Education" |
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| 10:00 AM -- 10:25 AM | Break | |
| Paper Session: Reaching Students | ||
| 10:30 AM -- 10:55 AM | "Pair-Squared Learning = Pair Programming x Pair Teaching" | Nicole Anderson and Tim Gegg-Harrison |
| 10:55 AM -- 11:20 AM | "Ingredients for Student-Centered Learning in Undergraduate Computing Science Courses" | Philippe J. Giabbanelli |
| 11:20 AM -- 11:45 AM | "Try/CATCH - A CS Outreach Event Organized by Female University Students for Female High School Students: A Positive Experience for All the Parts Involved" | Chia Q. Wang, Carmen Tang, Liyang Zhang, and Diana Cukierman |
| 11:45 AM -- 12:30 PM | Technical Session: EMC Academic Alliance and Virtual Labs with NETLAB+ by NDG | EMC |
| 12:30 PM -- 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM -- 2:15 PM | Technical Session: Pearson Custom Library: Save Time, Control Student Costs, and Build the Book You Want | Pearson |
| Paper Session: Theory & Software Engineering | ||
| 2:15 PM -- 2:40 PM | "Perceptions of Foundational Knowledge by Computer Science Students" | Katharine Blanchard and Michael Soltys |
| 2:40 PM -- 3:05 PM | "Discovering Algorithms With Matrix Code" | M.H. van Emden |
| 3:05 PM -- 3:30 PM | "Automatic Code Generation Within Student's Software Engineering Projects" | Youry Khmelevsky, Gaëtan Hains, and Chong Li |
| 3:30 PM -- 3:55 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM -- 5:15 PM |
Panel: Perspectives on Assessment in
Computing Education Sponsored by The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC |
Christopher Hundhausen, Allison Elliott Tew, and Mark Guzdial |
| Paper Session: Curriculum Management | ||
| 5:15 PM -- 5:40 PM | "What Can We Learn from Quantitative Teaching Assistant Evaluations?" | Elizabeth Patitsas and Patrice Belleville |
| 5:40 PM -- 6:05 PM | "Instructional Strategies in the EGRET Course: An International Graduate Forum on Becoming a Researcher" | Daniela Damian, Marian Petre, Mariel Miller, and Allyson F. Hadwin |
| 6:30 PM -- 8:00 PM | Reception | |
Day 2: May 5th | ||
| 8:00 AM -- 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM -- 9:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Mark Guzdial "Inspiring Computing Education with Media" |
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| Paper Session: Social Issues Curricula | ||
| 9:30 AM -- 9:55 AM | "Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in Computing Science: Three Years of Experience in the MoCSSy Program" | Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Andrew A. Reid, and Vahid Dabbaghian |
| 9:55 AM -- 10:20 AM | "Criticizing and Modernizing Computing Curriculum: The Case of the Web and the Social Issues Courses" | Randy Connolly |
| 10:20 AM -- 10:40 AM | Break | |
| 10:45 AM -- 12:00 PM | Panel: Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Projects | Michelle Craig, Ted Kirkpatrick, Amgine Saewyc, and Shealen Clare |
| 12:00 PM -- 12:45 PM | Technical Session: Peer-Based Learning with Piazza | Piazza |
| 12:45 PM -- 2:15 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:15 PM -- 2:30 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM -- 5:30 PM | Greenfoot Workshop | |
