Location: KPU Conference Center, Richmond Campus
Friday May 2, 2014
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Registration and continental breakfast | ||
| 8:30am - 8:45am | Welcome President Dr. Alan Davis Kwantlen Polytechnic University | ||
| 8:45am - 10:15am | Keynote: Demystifying Big Data Dr. Peter Aitken ACM Distinguished Speaker | ||
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Coffee break | ||
| 10:30am - 12:30pm | Paper Presentations: Instructional Design in Computing Education | ||
Session Chair: David Casperson | 10:30am - 10:50am ConEE: An Exhaustive Testing Tool to Support Learning Concurrent Programming Synchronization Challenges Anna Offenwanger, Yves Lucet (The University of British Columbia) | ||
10:50am - 11:10am Ricardo Hoar (Mount Royal University) | |||
| 11:10am - 11:30am Making programs with the Raspberry Pi Michael Wirth, Judi McCuaig (University of Guelph) | |||
Session Chair: Rick Gee | 11:30am - 11:50am Providing Library Services to Computer Science/IT Faculty and Students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University Lisa Hubick (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) | ||
| 11:50am - 12:10pm Why computing students are not using e-resources? Evidence from the University of the East Rex Bringula, Patrick James Lim, Sean Michael Amador, Rea Aborot, Karl Christian Canlas, (Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of the East) | |||
| 12:10pm - 12:30pm Industry in the Classroom: Equipping Students with Real-World Experience Christopher K. Hobbs, Herbert H. Tsang, (Trinity Western University) | |||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Keynote: Data Governance Beyond the Border Sharon Polsky, Charles Wordsworth Privacy Council of Canada | ||
| 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Coffee break | ||
| 2:45pm - 5:05pm |
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Session Chair: Surinder Dhanjal | 2:45pm - 3:05pm Explore IT: An Information and Communication Technology Outreach for Grade Nine Girls Pamini Thangarajah (Mount Royal University), Mo Keshavjee (SAIT Polytechnic), Michele Smith (Explore IT) | ||
| 3:05pm - 3:25pm Towards a Better Presentation of Dynamic Programming David Casperson (University of Northern British Columbia) | |||
| 3:25pm - 3:45pm Exploiting YAHOO! Pipes to Teach Computing Concepts Abhijit Sen (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) | |||
Session Chair: Diana Cukierman | 3:45pm - 4:05pm Finite automata in software modelling with semaphores and deadlock potential Boguslaw Schreyer (Nipissing University), Krzysztof Kosinski (Wyzsza Szkola Informatyki i Zarszadzania) | ||
| 4:05pm - 4:25pm Using a COAC# for CS1 Jakeline Marcos Abed (Escuela de Ingenieriay Tecnologias de Informacion TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, Campus Monterrey) | |||
| 4:25pm - 4:45pm The Canny Skipper - A puzzle for demonstrating data structures and recursion Michael Wirth (University of Guelph) | |||
| 6:30pm - | Gala Dinner ( Whistler Ballroom in River Rock Casino) | ||
Saturday May 3, 2014
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Welcome and continental breakfast |
8:30am - 9:40am
Panel Chair: Donald Acton | Panel: Resources for Computer Science and IT Education
Employment Trends in the IT Industry
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| 9:40am - 9:50am | Coffee break |
| 9:50am - 12:00pm | Paper Presentations: Computer Science and Information Technology Education |
Session Chair: Mohd Abdullah | 9:50am - 10:10am Addressing challenges students face in first-year university Computing Science and Engineering Science courses: Overview of a needs assessment and workshop Diana Cukierman, Donna McGee Thompson, Sheryl Guloy, Farimah Salimi, Margarita Karpilovsky Aharon (Simon Fraser University) |
| 10:10am - 10:30am The Development of Constructive Alignment in Activity Led learning Assessment of Digital Forensics Robert Bird, Madeline Cheah (Coventry University) | |
| 10:30am - 10:50am A Comparison of Information Retrieval Models Mandeep Pannu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Anne Jame, Bob Bird (Coventry University) | |
Session Chair: Robert Bird | 10:50am - 11:10am Project Development for Ethical Hacking Practice in A Website Security Course Jendy Wu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) |
| 11:10am - 11:30am Test-Run of the App-Driven Approach in Teaching A Mobile Programming Course Xing Liu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) | |
| 11:30am - 11:50am Generally Educated in the 21st Century: The Importance of Computer Literacy in an Undergraduate Curriculum Ricardo Hoar (Mount Royal University) | |
| 11:50am - 12:05pm | Closing Ceremony |