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Area on OR and Analytics Education @ 22nd IFORS 2020 in Seoul

  • 1.  Area on OR and Analytics Education @ 22nd IFORS 2020 in Seoul

    Posted 01-22-2020 04:26
    If you have already submitted an abstract for the IFORS 2020 conference, consider submitting another abstract to the OR and Analytics Education Area.
    You certainly have many very interesting teaching experiences. You should share them with us!

    REMINDER:
    an abstract to the OR and Analytics Education Area may be submitted IN ADDITION to a paper in another area.

    Dear Colleagues

    We want to invite you to share your educational experiences and successes within the area "OR and Analytics Education" at the IFORS conference in Seoul in June 2020 (http://www.ifors2020.kr). The submission deadline is now January 31, 2020.

    The objective of this area is to engage everyone involved in OR and Analytics Education and to promote interactions and discussions during the very enthusiastic and vivid sessions, like the ones we had in previous EURO and IFORS conferences. Please follow the link: https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/mac/rd/conference-committees/stream-organiser to see the presentations in this area in previous conferences.

    To submit an abstract, please go to https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2020, use the session code: 4e4f0552, and upload a text of maximum 1500 characters including spaces.

    All the contributions are most welcome. Some ideas for topics are:

    - Use of OR/Analytics software in Education;
    - Use of Games in OR/Analytics Education;
    - OR/Analytics curricula in mathematics, engineering, and business programs;
    - Course design for student-centred learning;
    - Active learning methodologies in the classroom;
    - Outcomes-based course design;
    - Design online courses;
    - Handling big-data sets and problems in a classroom setting;
    - ….

    We look forward to seeing you in Seoul. Meanwhile, if you need our assistance, don't hesitate to contact us.

    Best regards,
    Maria Antónia Carravilla (mac@fe.up.pt)
    José Fernando Oliveira (jfo@fe.up.pt)

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    Maria Antonia Carravilla
    Professor
    Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
    Porto
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