Science communication forms the bridge between computer science researchers and their target audience. Researchers who can effectively draw attention to their research findings and communicate them comprehensibly not only help their target audience to actually learn something, but also benefit themselves from the increased visibility of their work and person. However, the necessary skills for good science communication must also be taught, and this has so far been neglected in the field of software engineering education. We therefore designed and implemented a science communication seminar for bachelor students of computer science curricula. Students take the position of a researcher who, shortly after publication, is faced with having to draw attention to the paper and effectively communicate the contents of the paper to one or more target audiences. Based on this scenario, each student develops a communication strategy for an already published software engineering research paper and tests the resulting ideas with the other seminar participants. We explain our design decisions for the seminar, and combine our experiences with responses to a participant survey into lessons learned. With this experience report, we intend to motivate and enable other lecturers to offer a similar seminar at their university. Collectively, university lecturers can prepare the next generation of computer science researchers to not only be experts in their field, but also to communicate research findings more effectively.
翻译:科学交流是计算机科学研究者及其目标受众之间的桥梁。能够有效地引起对其研究成果的关注并把他们的研究成果传达给他们的研究人员,这些研究人员不仅能够帮助目标受众实际学习某事,而且能够从他们的工作和个人的可见度的提高中受益。然而,还必须教授良好的科学交流的必要技能,这在软件工程教育领域迄今被忽略了。因此,我们设计并为计算机科学课程的学士学生举办了科学交流研讨会。学生担任研究人员的职务,在论文发表后不久,他们不得不引起人们的注意,并有效地将论文的内容传达给一个或多个目标受众。根据这一设想,每个学生都为已经出版的软件工程研究论文制定沟通战略,并与其他研讨会参与者一起测试由此产生的想法。我们解释了研讨会的设计决定,并将我们的经验与对参与者调查的答复结合起来,总结经验教训。我们打算用这份经验报告来激励和帮助其他讲师在大学举办类似的研讨会。集体而言,大学讲师可以为下一代计算机科学研究者做好准备,不仅成为其研究领域的专家,而且还能更有效地交流研究结果。