Presentations – Conferences, Seminars, Workshops & Invited talks

International keynotes and invited talks

April 2010 High school computer science teacher preparation: Key elements, structure and challenges, 5th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Didactics of Informatics (Computer Science Education), Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. (keynote)
March 2009 Schön’s reflective practitioner perspective in CS/SE Education, Studio-Based Learning in Computing Education Workshop, A Workshop supported by the National Science Foundation, ACM SIGCSE 2009 Pre-Conference Activity, Chattanooga , Tennessee, USA. (keynote)
September 2006 Enhancing diversity: The case of gender diversity in computing, Multimedia Applications in Education Conference, the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Graz, Austria. (keynote, p. 11)
November 2005 Why Johnny can’t test: A cognitive analysis of testing, IBM Verification Conference 2005, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel. (invited talk)
November 2005 Culture and environment as determinants of women’s participation in computing, Special Event on Diversity in Science and Engineering, the Technical University in Vienna, Austria. (keynote)

International panel presentations

December 2018 International Innovation Sub-Forum: Israel: Shaping Startup Nation’s Human Capital, Global Education Summit – GES, Beijing, China (with Jacob (Yaki) Dayan , Lior Shalev Gali Shafar-Efrat and Joshua Schwartz)
October 2010 Collaboration, SPLASH, Reno, Nevada, USA (with Steven Fraser, Hannah Faye Chua, Gail Harris, Jean Tabaka, Rob Tucker and Dave West, pp. 255-258)
 March 2010 Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: Making computing fun again, part 3, SIGCSE 2010 – The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, USA (with Daniel D. Garcia, Gail Chapman, Maggie Johnson and Leigh Ann Sudol, pp. 394-395)
 August 2009 Enhancing diversity in agile software development environments, Agile 2009, Chicago, USA (with Yael Dubinsky, Amr Elssamadisy, David Hussman, Linda Rising)
February 2005 Challenges to computer science education research, SIGCSE 2005 – The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. (panel moderator, panelists: Vicki L. Almstrum, Mark Guzdial and Marian Petre, pp. 191-192)
February 2005 Using history of computing to address problems and opportunities in computer science education, SIGCSE 2005 – The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. (panel moderator, panelists: John Impagliazzo, Raymond Lister and Shimon Schocken, pp. 126-127)
 March 2004 Teaching software development methods: The case of Extreme Programming, SIGCSE 2004 – The 35th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (panel moderator, panelists: Joe Bergin, James Caristi, Yael Dubinsky and Laurie Williams, pp. 448-449)

 
 June 2003 Challenges in teaching capstone courses, The Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece. (with Elizabeth S. Adams, Mats Daniels, Kathy Lynch, Annegret Goold and Ian Newman, pp. 219-220)
February 2003 International perspective of women and computer science, SIGCSE 2003 – The 34th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, USA. (panel moderator, panelists: Elizabeth S. Adams – USA, Hrafn Loftsson – Iceland and Alison Young – New Zealand, pp. 45-46)
March 2003 Transfer to/from computing science education: The Case of science education research, SIGCSE 2003 – The 34th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, USA (with Vicki Almstrum, David Ginat and Clement, pp. 303-304)
 June 2002 Import and export to/from computing science education: The case of mathematics education research, The seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark. (with Vicki L. Almstrum, David Ginat and Tom Morley, pp. 193-194)
February 2002 The software studio in software engineering education, The 15th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2002), Covington, Northern Kentucky – The Southern Side of Cincinnati, USA. (with Sarah Kuhm, James E. Tomayko and Bruce Corson, pp. 256-258)
February 2002 Women, mathematics and computer science, SIGCSE 2002 – The 33rd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Northern Kentucky – The Southern Side of Cincinnati, USA. (with Peter H. Henderson, Paul De Palma, Vicki L. Almstrum and Kim Potter Kihlstrom, pp. 131-134)

Invited talks, keynotes and panel presentations in Israel

February 2021 #Ladders – Leveraging science and engineering students’ work in parallel to their studies for their future professional development, The Forum for Engineering Education: New Initiatives, The Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research
June 2020 Is a (nearly) zero-cost model plausible for science and engineering programs? The tale of Views and #Ladders, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion
May 2020 Colloquium: On-line learning and teaching in the Corona semester: Students’ and faculty’s perspective, The School of Engineering and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 2020 Seminar: Data science as teaching and research skills, Faculyt of Education, Beit Berl College
November 2019 Panel theme: Stretching the boundaries of global research, International Higher Education in the Digital Age – Challenges and Opportunities, NYU Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
March 2017 The MERge model: The contribution of Management, Education and Research to education in the health professions, The 3rd Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Medical Education, The Faculty of Medicine, Technion. (keynote)
December 2015 Supervision of graduate students: Manage, Educate, Research, The 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. http://gradcon.huji.ac.il/
December 2015 The MERge model for career management in academia and industry, The Seventh Conference on Education, Society and Research at the Technion, Technion, Israel. http://edu.technion.ac.il/files/781444729486.pdf
November 2015 Enhancing diversity: Why and how? IEEE COMCAS 2015 International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems, Tel-Aviv, Israel. http://www.comcas.org/Portals/33/WIE%20PROGRAM.pdf
February 2013 Integrating soft skill in undergraduate computer science and software engineering programs: Teaching principles and learning processes, Teaching Software Engineering in Israel: New Horizons – From Employment to Career, School of Engineering, The Kinneret College. (keynote)
December 2009 Employment mobility in the Israeli unstable work force, Mahut (A non-profit organization), Haifa Municipal Hall. (panelist)
October 2007 L3 4 SE (Life Long Learning for Software Engineering), SwSTE’07 – The IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology and Engineering, Herzeliya. (panelist)
March 2007 Women in computing, The 21st Conference of the Israeli Association for Information Technologies in Education, Tel-Aviv. (panelist)
July 2006 Gender diversity in science and technology as a means for the promotion of social goals, Gender and Technology Symposium, The Open University. (invited talk)
November 2005 What should be done to the development of a comprehensive agenda for research which supports the promotion of the top fifth students? One-day seminar: Challenging gifted (20 top percentages) pupils in the Israeli educational system, The Initiative for Applied Education Research, a joint venture of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Ministry of Education and Yad Hanadiv (the Rothschild Foundation). (panelist)
April 2003 Why don’t high school female students continue studying sciences in the high-level? – The case of computer science, Women in Science Conference, The center of science education, Bet-Berl College.
February 2002 E-Learning: The vision, the reality and the gap between them. The first national conference of IUCEL – Inter University Center for E-Learning, Technion, Haifa.
November 2001 Human factors in software engineering and their influence on software quality. The Sixth National Conference on the Israel Society for Quality, Tel-Aviv.

 
September 2001 In how many ways a problem can be presented? The Second Computer Science Teachers Conference — Professor Gideon Zwas Memorial, The School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
July 1999 Challenges in the academic teaching with the Internet. The 16th Annual Conference for Computers in Education – Technology with Culture towards the Year 2000, Tel-Aviv.

International workshops/tutorials

May 2019 Interactive Session – Agile Exponential Software Organizations, SEIP – Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE – International Conference of Software Engineering, Montréal, Canada (with Yael Dubinsky)
March 2015 Special Session – Big Data in Computer Science Education Research, SIGCSE 2015 – The 46th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Kansas City, Missouri (with Cliff Shaffer)
March 2015 Teaching Computer Science Soft Skills, SIGCSE 2015 – The 46th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Kansas City, Missouri (with Gadi Har-Shai)
October 2010 Workshop – The 2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering (HAoSE2010), SPLASH 2010, Reno, Nevada, USA (with Yael Dubinsky, pp.  271-272)
May 2010 Tutorial – Coaching agile software projects, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (with Yael Dubinsky, pp. 481-482)
October 2009 Workshop – Human aspects of software engineering, OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA (with Yael Dubinsky)
August 2009 Tutorial – Playtesting in the game industry, Agile 2009 Conference, Chicago, USA (with Ron Carmel)
August 2008 Tutorial – Refactoring of cultural smells, Agile 2008 Conference, Toronto, Canada (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2008 ICSE08 Workshop: CHASE 2008: Human and cooperative aspects of software engineering, Leipzig, Germany. (with Li-Te Cheng, Cleidson de Souza, Yvonne Dittrich, Michael John, Frank Maurer, Helen Sharp, Janice Singer, Susan Elliot Sim, Jonathan Sillito, Margaret-Anne Storey, Bjørnar Tessem, Gina Venolia)
May 2008 ICSE08 Workshop: The role of abstraction in software engineering, Leipzig, Germany (with Jeff Kramer)
August 2007 Achieving cooperation in agile software development environments by binding the individual and the team interests, Agile 2007 Conference, Washington DC, USA. (with Yael Dubinsky)
March 2007 Teaching Human Aspects of Software Engineering, SIGCSE 2007 – The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA (p. 586)
June 2006 Hands-on Teaching Agile Development, The 7th International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Oulu, Finland. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2006

 

 ICSE06 Workshop: The Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering: Organizational, Managerial and Cognitive Perspectives, Shanghai, China. (with Jeff Kramer, pp. 1017-1018)
March 2006 Abstraction – is it teachable, SIGCSE 2006 – The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA. (with Jeff Kramer)
July 2005 Hands-On Teaching Agile Programming Tutorial, Agile 2005 Conference, Denver, Colorado. (with Yael Dubinsky)
December 2003 Professional Development of Software Engineers: 3-day workshop that aims to expand the perspective of software engineering (mainly female) students regarding the various careers they may develop following graduation, Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Refereed papers in conference proceedings

  1. Hazzan, O. (1994). A students’ belief about the solutions of the equation x=x-1in a group. Proceedings of the 18th international conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. III, pp. 49-56.
  2. Leron, U., Hazzan, O. and Zazkis, R. (1994). Students’ constructions of group isomorphism. Proceedings of the 18th international conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. III, pp. 152-159.
  3. Leron, U. and Hazzan, O. (1995). The world according to Dina: A coping perspective in math education. CIEAEM 47 Proceedings, Mathematics Education and Common Sense: The Challenge of Social Change and Technological Developments, Free University, Berlin, pp. 89-96.
  4. Goldenberg, E. P. and Hazzan, O. (1995). Proving: Relationships to construction, visualization and language. Proceedings of the Conference of Justifying and Proving in School Mathematics, London, England, pp. 106-125.
  5. Hazzan, O. and Zazkis, R. (1997). Constructing knowledge by constructing examples for mathematical concepts. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lahti, Finland, Vol. 4, pp. 299-306.
  6. Hazzan, O. and Goldenberg, E. P. (1997). An expression of the idea of successive refinement in Dynamic Geometry environments. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lahti, Finland, Vol. 3, pp. 49-56.
  7. Leron, U. and Hazzan, O. (1997). Computers and applied constructivism. IFIP WG 3.1. Working Conference – Secondary School Mathematics in the World of Communication Technologies: Learning, Teaching and the Curriculum, Grenoble, France, 195-203. (The proceedings’ title is: Information and Communications Technologies in School Mathematics).
  8. Leron, U. and Hazzan, O. (1998). Meta-Freedom in Hypertext: The freedom to limit your own freedom. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA & Ed-TELECOM 98 – 10th World conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 819-824.
  9. Leron, U. and Hazzan, O. (2000). Learning as surfing in mental space, SSGRR 2000 – International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, L’Aquila, Italy.
  10. Hazzan, O. (2001). Teaching the human aspect of software engineering – A case study, The Proceedings of the Thirty Second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, NC, USA, pp.124-128.
  11. Hazzan, O. (2001). The application of reflective practitioner perspective to software engineering, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Bournemouth, England, pp. 237-248.
  12. Hazzan, O. (2002). Reducing abstraction level when learning computability theory concepts, Proceedings of The seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 156-160.
  13. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2002). Improvement of software quality: Introducing extreme programming into a project-based course, Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference of the Israel Society for Quality, Jerusalem, Israel, Volume I, pp. 8-12.
  14. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2003). Teaching a software development methodology: The case of Extreme Programming, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Madrid, Spain, pp. 176-184.

(Hebrew version is published in Meydaon – The Israeli Journal for Information Technology (published by The Israeli Chamber of System Analysts), December 2003, No. 135, pp. 12-16).

  1. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2003). Bridging cognitive and social chasms in software development using Extreme Programming, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Genova, Italy, pp. 47-53.
  2. Hazzan, O. (2003). Cognitive and social aspects of Software Engineering: A course framework, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 3-6.
  3. Hazzan, O. (2003). Computer Science students’ conception of the relationship between reward (grade) and cooperation, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 178-182.
  4. Hazzan, O. and Tomayko, J. (2003). The reflective practitioner perspective in eXtreme Programming, Proceedings of the XP Agile Universe 2003 – Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2753 / 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 51-61.
  5. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2003). eXtreme Programming as a framework for student-project coaching in computer science capstone courses, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, Herzelia, Israel, pp. 53-59.
  6. Hazzan, O. and Tomayko, J. E. (2004). Reflection processes in the teaching and learning of human aspects of software engineering, Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2004), Norfolk, Virginia, USA, pp. 32-38.
  7. Hazzan, O. and Tomayko, J. E. (2004). Human aspects of Software Engineering: The case of Extreme Programming, Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, pp. 303-311.
  8. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2004). Roles in agile software development teams, Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, pp. 157-165.
  9. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2004). Using a roles scheme to derive software project metrics, QUantitative TEchniques for SoftWare Agile Processes workshop, Proceedings (and selected for the Post-Proceedings) of SIGSOFT 2004, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
  10. Eidelman, L. and Hazzan, O. (2005). Factors influencing the Shrinking Pipeline in high schools: A sector-based analysis of the Israeli high school system, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2005 – The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 406-410.
  11. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2005). Cognitive and social perspective of software development methods: The case of the prisoner dilemma and Extreme Programming, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Sheffield University, UK, 74-81.
  12. Dubinsky, Y., Hazzan, O. and Keren, (2005). Introducing Extreme Programming into a software project at the Israeli Air Force, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Sheffield University, UK, pp. 19-27.
  13. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2005). Clashes between culture and software development methods: The case of the Israeli hi-tech industry and Extreme Programming, Proceedings of the Agile 2005 Conference, IEEE computer society, Denver, Colorado, pp. 59-69.
  14. Dubinsky, Y., Talby, D., Hazzan, O. and Keren, A. (2005). Agile metrics at the Israeli Air Force, Proceedings of the Agile 2005 Conference, IEEE computer society, Denver, Colorado, pp. 12-19.
  15. Hazzan, O., Dubinsky, Y., Eidelman, L., Sakhnini, V. and Teif, M. (2006). Qualitative research in Computer Science education, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2006 – The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA, pp. 408-412.
  16. Frieze, C., Hazzan, O., Blum, L. and Dias, M. B. (2006). Culture and environment as determinants of women’s participation in computing: Revealing the “Women-CS Fit”, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2006 – The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA, pp. 22-26.
  17. Dubinsky, Y., Hazzan, O., Talby, D. and Keren, A. (2006). System analysis and design in a large-scale software project: The case of transition to agile development, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 11-18.

Reprinted by invitation as: Dubinsky, Y., Hazzan, O., Talby, D. and Keren, A. (2009). Agile System Analysis and Design, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Springer, pp. 281-292.

  1. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2006). Can diversity in global software development be enhanced by agile software development?, the Global Software Development for the Practitioner workshop, Proceedings of ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China, pp. 58-61.
  2. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2006). The concept of change in technology transfer, the Workshop on Technology Transfer in Software Engineering, Proceedings of ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China, pp. 29-33.
  3. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2006). A cognitive perspective on software development methods: The case of extreme programming, Short paper, WISER 2006 – 2nd International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, Proceedings of ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering) Conference, Shanghai, China, pp. 53-55.
  4. Armoni, M., Gal-Ezer, J. and Hazzan, O. (2006). Reductive thinking in undergraduate CS courses, Proceedings of ITiCSE – The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna, Italy, pp. 133 – 137.

The paper was selected to be posted in the Annals of Research in Engineering Education (AREE) – a comprehensive web portal for engineering education.

  1. Talby, D., Hazzan, O., Dubinsky, Y. and Keren, A. (2006). Reflections on reflection in agile software development, Proceedings of the Agile 2006 Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 100-110.
  2. Eidelman, L. and Hazzan, O. (2007). Eccles’ Model of Achievement-Related Choices: The case of Computer Science studies in Israeli high schools, Proceedings of The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA, pp. 29-33.
  3. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2007). The software engineering timeline: A time management perspective, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, Herzelia, Israel, pp. 95-103.
  4. Hazzan, O., Gal-Ezer, J. and Blum, L. (2008). A model for high school Computer Science Education: The four key elements that make it!, Proceedings of The 39th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 281-285. April 2012: Listed second on the SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) top 10 downloaded articles in the past 6 weeks http://dl.acm.org/sig.cfm?id=SP927.
  1. Ragonis, N. and Hazzan, O. (2008). Disciplinary-pedagogical teacher preparation for pre-service Computer Science teachers: rational and implementation, Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspective – ISSEP 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5090/2008, pp. 253-264.
  2. Ragonis, N. and Hazzan, O. (2008). Tutoring model for promoting teaching skills of Computer Science prospective teachers, The 13th Annual Conference on
    Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education – ITiCSE 2008,     Madrid, Spain, pp. 276 – 280.
  3. Seger, T., Hazzan, O. and Bar-Nahor, R. (2008). Agile orientation and psychological needs, self-efficacy, and perceived support: A two job-level comparison, Proceedings of the Agile 2008 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 3-14.
  4. Barzilay, O., Hazzan, O. and Yehudai, A. (2009).Evaluation of a software engineering course by reflection, Proceedings of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference – ITiCSE 2009, Paris, France, pp. 273-277.
  5. Ragonis, N. and Hazzan, O. (2010). A reflective practitioner’s perspective on computer science teacher preparation, Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools: Evolution and Perspective (ISSEP), Zürich, Switzerland, 90-106.
  6. Ragonis, N., Hazzan, O. and Gal-Ezer, J. (2010). A survey of Computer Science teacher preparation programs in Israel tells us: Computer Science deserves a designated high school teacher preparation!, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2010 – The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, USA, pp. 401-405.
  7. Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2010). A HOT – Human, Organizational and Technological – framework for a Software Engineering course, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 559-566.
  8. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2010). Ad-hoc leadership in agile software development environments, proceedings of CHASE (Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering) 2010 workshop, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 32-38.
  9. Shatil, A., Hazzan, O. and Dubinsky, Y. (2010). Agility in a large-scale system engineering project: A case-study of an advanced communication system project, Proceedings of SwSTE’10 – The IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology and Engineering, Herzlia, Israel, pp. 47-54.
  10. Barzilay, O., Yehudai, A. and Hazzan, O. (2010) Developers attentiveness to example usage, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering, SPLASH 2010, Reno, Nevada, USA, Article No.: 2.
  11. Nutov, L. and Hazzan, O. (2010). Information-sharing empowerment: The case of the design process of the homeroom teacher role in Israeli high schools, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Israel Society for Quality, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  12. Ragonis, N., Hazzan, O. and Gal-Ezer, J. (2011). A study on attitudes and emphases in computer science teacher preparation, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2011 – The 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Dallas, Texas, USA, pp. 559- 564.
  13. Nutov, L. and Hazzan, O. (2011). The manager role in organizational engagement: The case of the high school homeroom teacher role, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Values and Leadership Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
  14. Barzilay, O., Yehudai, A. and Hazzan, O. (2011). Using social media to study the diversity of example usage among professional developers, Proceedings of the New Ideas track, ESEC/FSE 2011 (The joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering), Szeged, Hungary, pp. 472-475.
  15. Dubinsky, Y. and Hazzan, O. (2012). Software governance using retrospectives: A case study, The IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology and Engineering – SwSTE’12, Herzlia, Israel, pp. 40-45.
  16. Trotskovsky, E., Sabag, N., Waks, S. and Hazzan, O. (2012). Students’ problem solving in electronics by using models, Proceedings of The International Conference on Engineering Education 2012 (ICEE 2012), Turku, Finland, pp. 290-295.
  17. Hazzan, O. and Har-shai, G. (2013). Teaching computer science soft skills as soft concepts, SIGCSE 2013 – The 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Denver, CO, USA, 59-64 (published but was not presented due to a snow storm).
  18. Trotskovsky, E., Sabag, N., Waks, S., Hazzan, O. (2013). Students’ misunderstandings in project design activities in electronics, Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education and Research – ICEER-2013, Marrakesh, Morocco, pp.1016-1023.
  19. Hazzan, O. and Ragonis, N. (2014). STEM teaching as an additional profession for scientists and engineers: The case of Computer Science education, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2014 – The 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 181-186.
  20. Hazzan, O. and Har-shai, G. (2014). Teaching and learning computer science soft skills using soft skills: The students’ perspective, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2014 – The 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 567-572.
  21. Kontorovich, I. and Hazzan, O. (2014). Towards exploring expertise in mathematics education research: What are the requirements and duties of the researchers?, Proceedings of the Frontiers in Mathematics and Science Education Research Conference (FISER’14), Famagusta – Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, pp. 160-168.
  22. Gero, A. and Hazzan, O. (2016). Training scientists and engineers as science and engineering teachers: The motivational factors of enrollees in the Views program, 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning and 45th International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy, Belfast, UK. https://www.conftool.com/icl-conference/
  23. Gero, A., Shekh-Abed, A. and Hazzan, O. (to be presented, 2019). Correlation between systems thinking and abstract thinking among high school students majoring in electronics, ICL2019 – 22nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Intercontinental Bangkok, Thailand.
  24. Ragonis, N. and Hazzan, O. (2019). What are computer science educators interested in? The case of SIGCSE conferences, In Pozdniakov S. and Dagienė V. (eds) Informatics in Schools. New Ideas in School Informatics. ISSEP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11913. Springer, Cham. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in schools: Situation, evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP), Larnaca, Cyprus, pp. 28-40.
  25. Mike, K., Nemirovsky-Rotman, S. and Hazzan, O. (April 2020). Interdisciplinary education – The case of Bio Medical signal processing, Proceedings of the EDUCON2020 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, Porto, Portugal (on-line conference due to the Corona pandemic), 339-343. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON45650.2020.9125200
  26. Mike, K., Hazan, T. and Hazzan, O. (November 2020). Equalizing Data Science Curriculum for Computer Science Pupils, Koli Calling – International Conference on Computing Education Research, Finland, Article No.: 20, Pages 1–5 https://doi.org/10.1145/3428029.3428045 (on-line conference due to the Corona pandemic)
  27. Perelman, R., Cohen, H. and Hazzan, O. (March 2021). The CS-orona Initiative: Fulfilling the Organizational Needs of Israeli High School Computer Science Teachers during the Corona Pandemic, Proceedings of SIGCSE 2021 – The 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Toronto, Canada, 732–738, https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432474 (on-line conference due to the Corona pandemic)
  28. Mike, K., Hartal, G. and Hazzan, O. (April 2021). Widening the Shrinking Pipeline: The Case of Data Science, EDUCON2021 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, Vienna, Austria, pp.252 –261, doi: 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453924. (on-line conference due to the Corona pandemic)
  29. Hazzan, O. (May 2021). Exponential Competence of Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate Students, ICSE 2021 Joint Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET) track, Madrid, Spain (on-line conference due to the Corona pandemic), pp. 105-109.
  30. Gero, A., Shekh-Abed, A. and Hazzan, O. (to be presented, 2021). Dedicated Assignments as a Means of Advancing Junior Students’ Systems Thinking and Abstract Thinking, ICL 2021 – International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Dresden, Germany (a hybrid event due to the Corona pandemic).

Talks and workshops in Israeli organizations

Hi-tech companies: Mercury Interactive Corporation, IBM, Philips, Elbit Systems, Ness Technologies Inc., Amdocs, Orca Interactive, Kodak, Netwise, Rafael – Advanced Defense Systems, The Israeli Air force, ECI Telecom, PTC – Parametric Technology Corporation

Clubs, forums & practitioner’s conferences: The System Analysts Club and the Project Manager Club – People and Computers Organization, ILTAM – User’s Association of Advanced Technologies for Design and Manufacturing in the Electronics Industry, Agile Israel Forum, The Israeli Perl Mongers Forum, The C3 club of CTOs – The People Organization, Israeli Scrum User Group 2009, Agile Practitioners conference, INNOVEX 2015, PMI (Project Management Institute), EdTech Israel.

Other organizations: Atidim, ORT, The Israel Police, The Israeli Society for Human Resources Management, JFN – Jewish Funders Network, Technion – Family of Medicine – Family Medicine Unit.

Youth activities

  • Judge, Hacking Generation Y (formed to promote youth entrepreneurship through collaborative learning), June 2015, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • Advisory Board member, TEENGuru(an initiative dedicated to promoting inspiring teenagers as a tool for empowerment and social change, September 2014, Tel-Aviv, Israel.