ISCAP Proceedings 2024

Baltimore, MD - November 2024

Workshops

Exhibitor Workshops / Demonstrations

RedHat: Automate everything with Ansible Automation Platform

Sam Diament
Red Hat

Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is the industry-leading enterprise automation platform designed to work across all infrastructures and environments. Built on the open source Ansible project, AAP offers fast, flexible, and agentless automation and integration with over 60 third party vendors. AAP brings together several components across the entire automation lifecycle, including tools that enable faster creation of automation jobs, the operations control centers, and the automation mesh for global scalability. Ansible Automation Platform breaks down silos by bringing automation directly to each line of business, empowering teams to gain efficiencies and work collaboratively with other teams. This workshop consists of a short presentation and a hands-on workshop, where users will get a chance to write their own automation playbooks. Key areas covered include: More..... (6227)

Prerequisites The demo environment provided in the workshop will allow users to access Ansible Automation Platform in a virtual environment. Please bring your laptop so you can participate fully.
Thursday at 8:40 am

Integrating Generative AI in the Coding Classroom: Responsible Use and Impact with CodeGrade

Lena Hong
CodeGrade

This session explores the intersection of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and responsible classroom integration through CodeGrade. Attendees will learn how to empower students to leverage AI tools in coding education while understanding their broader implications. We will demonstrate how CodeGrade's AI Coding Assistant allows teachers to monitor AI interactions within its built-in IDE and combine these with auto-grading for a comprehensive and engaging learning experiences. Additionally, this session will review research-based recommendations on phasing AI into the curriculum, starting with AI-restricted assignments, and progressing to specialized tasks that foster hands-on experience with generative AI6228
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Friday at 8:30 a.m.

Connecting Students to Careers and Jobs - Learning and Employment Record Infrastructure

Edward Moskal
iQ4

This workshop will provide (1) information on how iQ4 developed products using AI and machine learning to create a skills and proficiency based ecosystem for student and employers to connect resulting in job placement (2) a demo of the two iQ4 products (Digital Achievement Wallet and Skills Talent Pipeline Application) that enable the ecosystem, resulting in a Learning and Employment Record Infrastructure. Faculty, career services, and companies/organizations that need to fill jobs with college students (internships, apprenticeship, full-time) would benefit from attending this workshop. All attendees will receive a Digital Achievement Wallet to take back to their institution/organization to explore it's features/capabilities. More... (6212)

Friday at 1:50 pm

Workshops

IS2020 Curricular Competency Tools Community Workshop

Jeffry Babb
West Texas A&M University

Kareem Dana
West Texas A&M University

Aditya Jagdale
West Texas A&M University


The most recently Computing Curricula and Information Systems Model Curriculum Reports make a case for a competency basis for computing curricula. Subsequent model curricula such as those for computer science and data analytics have followed this same trajectory. These reports call for further support for a competency-basis for curriculum design which would be supported both by a community and tooling such that competency-based curricular designs are possible. This workshop demonstrates ACM and ISCAP supported efforts to prototype tools that facilitate the development of competency-based curriculum design. (6180)

Wednesday at 4:00 pm

Process Mining in Action with pm4py - From Data to Insights

Adrian Gardiner
Georgia Institute of Technology

Process mining is an advanced analytical technique that enables organizations to gain deep insights into their business processes by extracting knowledge from event logs available in enterprise systems like SAP ERP. This technique can generate valuable insights, such as identifying process bottlenecks, conducting root cause analysis of deviations, delays, and errors, and ensuring that actual processes comply with predefined models reflecting internal policies. This workshop offers Information Systems professors an opportunity to delve into the world of process mining using the powerful, open-source pm4py Python package, developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. While some popular process mining tools, such as from Celonis, Signavio (SAP), or Appian, offer university academic alliance programs, these academic accounts are often restricted in terms of the type of analysis students can conduct and the sophistication of the datasets involved, due to the significant costs associated with hosting a process mining analytical platform. In contrast, using pm4py within a Google Colab environment has few restrictions regarding the type of analysis students can perform and the size and complexity of the datasets being analyzed. Overall, workshop participants will gain practical experience in extracting, analyzing, and visualizing process data, uncovering inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for process optimization. (6113)

Friday at 10:45 am

How to Implement a Digital Achievement Wallet for your Students

Edward Moskal
Saint Peter's University

This workshop will provide the details on how Saint Peter's University implemented a Digital Achievement Wallet for students in computer science/cybersecurity to include a demo of the iQ4 Corporation products that were provided, creating a skills-marketplace, connecting employers and students. Saint Peter's University has partnered with iQ4 over the past six years to provide students with an industry recognized macro-credential while completing virtual cybersecurity mentor-lead pre-apprenticeships using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework. As part of the pre-apprenticeship projects, which are 3-credit courses, students received a Digital Achievement Wallet. Each student benefits from the Wallet as it enables them to promote their education, job history, skills, proficiencies, portfolio of work, badges, credentials, certifications, find career pathways to suitable roles, and be matched to employers' skills-based hiring needs. Faculty, career services, and companies/organizations that need to fill jobs with college students (internships, apprenticeship, full-time) would benefit from attending this workshop. More.... (6148)

Friday at 11:10 am

Improving Public Speaking through Virtual Reality

Brittany Gouws
Gabrielle Case
Chris Rogalski
Nichols College

In this hands-on workshop participants will learn about opportunities around improving public speaking through VR. Utilizing Virtual Speech, each participant will have the opportunity to practice speaking in front of a virtual audience. We will discuss lessons learned as we deployed this technology in an Effective Speaking class. We'll further explore how else this technology could be used in an academic setting. No prior experience is needed, and participants do not need to bring anything with them to the workshop (although, if they bring their ISCAP presentation then they can use that as a practice lesson). This workshop is funded through the Department of Education Grant P116Z230123 (6150)

Friday at 11:10 am