The students conference—a tool for the teaching of research, writing, and presentation skills

Börstler, Jürgen; Johansson, Olof

doi:10.1145/282991.283007

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“…Peer-review, where students review each other's work, is another mechanism for developing this skill [14]. Peer-review of writing has been used in a variety of ways within CS courses [5,1,7,10].…”

Section: Developing Reading and Critiquing Skillsmentioning

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Research, teaching, and service

Sivilotti¹,

Weide²

2004

Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Rarely are the three pillars of academia-research, teaching, and service-addressed together, within one intellectually cohesive context in the graduate curriculum. Such a context is important for exposing students to the inter-relationships among these facets.This paper presents our experience with structuring graduate research seminar courses around the model of a "miniconference". Throughout the quarter, students pursue original research projects in the discipline of the seminar course. At the end of the quarter, students write their findings as technical conference papers, then act as the miniconference program committee in reviewing each other's submissions. Finally, the selected papers are presented at the miniconference. In addition to the model itself, we describe some variations in instantiation and an assessment of the benefits of this general approach.

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“…In [1], the authors report on a conference model in which undergraduate students engage in independent research, technical writing, and oral presentations. Students do not, however, participate in the reviewing and refereeing process.…”

Section: Undergraduate Conference Modelmentioning

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Research, teaching, and service

Sivilotti¹,

Weide²

2004

Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…Recognizing the importance of these skills, some institutions have developed specialized courses addressing communication skills [4,5,6,7], but for most the increasing demand for technical knowledge pushes any formal training and evaluation of writing and speaking skills into the background. As a result, the majority of institutions has not developed specialized courses but rather include written reports and oral presentations to document the work completed for term projects in their standard courses.…”

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Students teaching students

DankelDouglas

OhlrichJonathan

2007

SIGCSE Bull.

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This paper presents the structure of a new elective course at the University of Florida, Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games, which addresses not only the technical aspects of creating realism within computer games, but also the need for more experiences in oral communication. Key elements of this course include the students conducting a majority of the teaching and actively participating in evaluating each other.

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“…This paper tracks the evolution of our third-year one-semester elective course in Multimedia Systems from one focused on content and recall towards one which incorporates authentic learning and a pedagogy of engagement. The possible strengths of an undergraduate conference as a means of developing communications skills [1][2][3][4] have been noted. It was our intention to extend this approach to develop the students' capacity for independent learning in the subject domain.…”

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A research-led curriculum in multimedia

Davis

White

2005

Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Traditional teaching methods have acknowledged limitations. Lectures may be used to transmit information efficiently, but often fail to motivate students to engage with the subject. Coursework assessments and examinations may lack authenticity and thus fail to help students develop 'real world' skills even though they ensure technical competence. This paper presents a teaching innovation motivated from a social constructivist perspective whereby undergraduates researched, reviewed, and presented their papers at a one day conference, by way of preparing for a written examination.The paper presents theory supporting this change, our experiences from running the course, and improvements in learning we observed. We identify the value of undergraduate conferences beyond serving as a vehicle for communication skills. We identify an approach which engages learners and realizes higher level learning objectives by using authentic activities. The process has identified a 'research-led' approach which clarifies the similarity between research processes and effective independent learning strategies and is valued by students, faculty and stakeholders alike.

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The students conference—a tool for the teaching of research, writing, and presentation skills

Abstract: Good communication skills are very important for any professional career. But few computer science curricula provide courses to acquire these skills.

Cited by 17 publications

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Research, teaching, and service

Students teaching students

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