OER 2016 - 1st International COMPSAC Workshop on Teaching Computer Science and Information Technology with Open Educational Resources

Open Education Resources (OER), are freely available learning materials, discoverable on the World Wide Web, are becoming increasingly popular internationally at all levels of education, and across almost every discipline. OER can provide richer and even less expensive learning experience for students while also make the teaching experience more fulfilling for instructors. OER can also encourage international collaboration in teaching and learning. With the development of the ABET/CSAB and ACM/IEEE Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) curricula, the aim of this workshop is to discuss how to use OER for teaching CS and IT in particular.
Participants in this workshop will:
Present an overview of the use and benefits of OER in higher education
Describe ABET/CSAB and ACM/IEEE curricula/accreditation
Describe the development of a new taxonomy of CS and IT learning materials and their relation to ABET/CSAB and ACM/IEEE curricula/accreditation
Present an overview of MERLOT and how the system can be used by instructors to integrate OER into their CS and IT instructions
Describe a new project in which MERLOT is being used to collect and evaluate Computer Science OERs for use by CS/IT instructors around the world.
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to 6 pages (IEEE Proceedings style) with up to 2 additional pages (with charges for each additional page) printed on 10-12 point fonts. Authors must follow IEEE CS Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop in person.
Program Committee
Chair: Henry Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Members:
Rosanna Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Claudio Demartini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick, Ireland
Simanta Mitra, Iowa State University, USA
Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Joseph So, Hong Kong Community College, Hong Kong
Vincent Tam, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
TL Wong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong