UKICER2019: United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research University of Kent Canterbury, UK, September 5-6, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2019/UKICER2019/index.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ukicer2019 |
Submission deadline | June 7, 2019 |
The first UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference aims to bring together computing education researchers in the UK and Ireland to share knowledge, initiate collaborations, and form a strong computing education research community within the British and Irish isles.
There are several international conferences in computing education research, some of which have been hosted here in the UK and Ireland. But while there has been a growing interest in computing education here, prompted by changes in school education and increasing HE enrolments, there is no UK- or Ireland-specific conference venue to discuss research and to help build a local community of computing education researchers. We aim for UKICER to be the research complement to practice-oriented conferences such as the CAS conferences for schools and CEP for higher education.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of research papers on the topic of computing education. Themes of interest include:
- Computing education pedagogy
- Assessing and providing feedback on computing assignments
- Issues of inclusivity and diversity
- Tools to aid computing education
- Computing education issues particularly relevant to a British and/or Irish context
All submissions related to computing education are welcome, at any stage of formal education (or outside formal education).
Papers should describe a rigorously executed piece of work, include a motivating research question and discussion of prior related work. We welcome:
- Papers describing a research experiment in a school, university or informal educational setting. The experiment should be rigorously conducted – if this is the case, null results will still be considered for publication.
- Tool design papers which carefully document design constraints, user considerations, relevant pedagogical concerns, and justify the design decisions taken in a way that would be useful to other designers, and include details of user testing or other initial measures of effectiveness.
Submitted papers should have a research component. Papers focused on practice-related topics such as implementation of new curricula or new course designs may be better suited to our sister Computing Education Practice conference.
Paper Format and Submission
Papers should be submitted in ACM double-column conference proceedings format. The page limit is six pages, not counting the references. The references may occupy a seventh page if the paper reaches the six page limit. Papers must be submitted in an anonymised form for double-blind review. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, and presented in a session at the conference.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
For all submissions please use the ACM templates.
Authors of papers must submit an anonymous version with all references to the authors removed (including authors names and affiliations plus identifying information within the body of the paper such as websites or related publications). After a paper is accepted, authors will be asked to submit a camera-ready version which includes all the author details and identifying information.
The submission deadline is Friday 7th June.
Be sure that all of your submissions abide by the ACM Conflict of Interest Policy.
Note that reviewers will assume they are reviewing completed works, as they will eventually appear in the conference proceedings. Do not submit incomplete drafts.
Electronic submission is required. All submissions should be in Portable Document Format (PDF).
To submit your work, visit the EasyChair submission pages. After you create an account, if you don’t have one, you will find a submission form that requires you to enter the type, title, and abstract of your submission, plus author contact information.
For more information please see https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2019/UKICER2019/index.html
List of Topics
- Computing Education
- Computer Science Education
Committees
Program Committee
- Neil Brown, King’s College, London, Co-programme chair
- Brett Becker, University College Dublin, Co-programme chair
Organizing committee
- Janet Carter, University of Kent, Conference chair
- Steven Bradley, Durham University
- Quintin Cutts, University of Glasgow
- Sally Fincher, University of Kent
- Mark Wheadon, University of Kent, Website
Venue
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Neil Brown (neil.c.c.brown@kcl.ac.uk ) and Brett Becker (brett.becker@ucd.ie)