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software engineering education track |
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New Horizons is the theme of ICSE 2010. It acknowledges the need for software engineering to open to new horizons, by broadening the focus of research themes and by reaching new communities. As such, an important goal of this meeting will be to reach out to other disciplines that have an impact upon or benefit from software engineering know-how. Because of its location in South Africa, the meeting will also offer a chance to improve collaboration between the traditional ICSE attendees and researchers and educators from developing countries. Which Education for Software Engineers?Education is a vital mission for our community in order to meet the challenges of today and, primarily, those we expect to face in the future. Moreover education is intimately bound with social and economical factors raising different questions and problems in different countries. In addition, collaboration tools are increasingly available to support distributed multi-team and multi-site project work, through which we all can learn how worldwide cooperation can break the barriers of space and time, economy, culture, language, race. The track will be organized to reflect this diversity through expert presentations and open discussion sessions. The goal of the educational track is to expose, analyze, and investigate what is difficult and peculiar about teaching software engineering and what are the necessary ingredients for improving our educational activities. We therefore solicit contributions from the community on problems/questions/open issues/innovative solutions in teaching software engineering, which will help us shape the agenda of the educational track for this year and a roadmap for the future of software engineering education. The panel/discussion sessions will provide a forum for selected submitters to present and discuss their questions and experiences with experts in the field and with the track participants. Call for PapersContributions are invited for papers describing problems, relevant experiences, and novel insights and solutions in educational activities. Papers should be at most ten pages long, in the conference format, and should clearly describe the social-economical-educational context they refer to, the object of the discussion and the expected result of the discussion. The paper should explicitly list up to three main challenges an instructor of software engineering faces today, and optionally, potential solutions to those problems. Questions/problems of interest include, but are not restricted to: • Software Engineering is about complexity: How/what can we teach about complexity? • Software Engineering is about software. What knowledge should we assume about software? • Software engineering is about collaboration and this increasingly occurs in a distributed, multi-site way. What are the rules? What should we say about outsourcing? About the impact of linguistic differences? How can experience be shared? • Software has fundamental impact on societies. Should we address ethical and other societal issues? How? • Software engineering is influenced by organizational and cultural issues. What culture and organization do we teach for? Should we teach about culture? • Are there different experiences and needs in developing countries? How can we include the challenges derived from the needs of developing countries? • Are there fundamental issues related to programming languages, software tools, and infrastructure? • Are projects and theory integrated in courses?
• Full papers, up to 10 pages, documenting well-articulated and well-established results, • Short papers, up to 4 pages, describing new results that may not have been fully evaluated yet, but are nonetheless important to share with the community. Important Dates
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TopicsQuestions/problems of interest include, but are not restricted to: • Software Engineering is about complexity: How/what can we teach about complexity? • Software Engineering is about software. What knowledge should we assume about software? • Software engineering is about collaboration and this increasingly occurs in a distributed, multi-site way. What are the rules? What should we say about outsourcing? About the impact of linguistic differences? How can experience be shared? • Software has fundamental impact on societies. Should we address ethical and other societal issues? How? • Software engineering is influenced by organizational and cultural issues. What culture and organization do we teach for? Should we teach about culture? • Are there fundamental issues related to programming languages, software tools, and infrastructure? • Are projects and theory integrated in courses? |
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