Student-active learning and project work in the development of IT systems
Time: 18. September
The ability to work in teams is increasingly important for graduate IT students. In working life, you are often expected to work in agile, cross-functional teams. We wish to gather institutions in Norway that offer large, practical system development courses for bachelor or master students. The target audience is course holders or others involved in courses where students develop systems and / or services.
The goal of this workshop is to learn from each other’s experience in holding large system software engineering courses. Examples of experience exchange will be:
- Use of student activating exercises in lectures and group lessons
- Challenges with project work for teams with 5-7 people, including composition of the team, collaborative processes, evaluation of individual results vs. team results
- Teaching of techniques and practices (e.g., use of tools, flexible practices, version management)
Leader of UDIT, Birgit Krogstie, will be keynote speaker on the workshop, and it will be presentations from three other large educational institutions in Norway.
We will also share experiences from a major practical Software Engineering course that started at the Department of Informatics, UiO, spring 2018. After the lectures there will be group discussions with good use of workshop techniques. The goal is that the participants after the workshop should be inspired and be left with practical tools and techniques they can try out in their own teaching.
Contact person: Yngve Lindsjørn ynglin@ifi.uio.no, Viktoria Stray stray@ifi.uio.no
COINS Ph.D. student seminar
Time: 18. September
The Norwegian COINS Research School of Computer and Information Security organises a yearly seminar for its student members. The seminars focus on social aspects (common meals, excursions, community building activities) to create identification of Ph.D. students with the larger information security research community in Norway. Students present their research and can discuss all topics. The social context has become particularly important in recent years as cultural diversity among students has increased significantly, thus creating both new opportunities and new challenges for building a strong social and academic community.
Contact person: Hanno Langweg hanno.langweg@ntnu.no