ACE 2025: Call for Participation

We warmly invite you to submit a research or practitioner paper to the 27th annual Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE'2025). ACE is a high-quality international conference, run in-cooperation with SIGCSE, that provides a forum for educators and researchers to share innovations and insights in computing education.

ACE2025 will be held during the week of 10th February, 2025, at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and will run in parallel with several other events as part of Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW).

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• the use of technology in computing education;
• course content;
• curriculum structure;
• methods of assessment and evaluation;
• pedagogy and learning theories;
• mobile, flexible, online learning; and
• valuations of alternative approaches

Submission Guidelines

• Both research papers and practitioner papers must be between 5 and 10 pages in length (inclusive of any references).
• Submissions should be made via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw2025.
• When starting a submission, select the track "Australasian Computing Education Conference 2025".
• Submissions should be in two-column format (i.e., use "sigconf" style in the documentclass for Latex) and use the ACM SIG Proceedings template.
• Submissions should be made to EasyChair in PDF format.
  • LaTeX template
  • MS Word template
• Papers must be in English and must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference.
• Authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship in the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE).
• The review process is double-blind. Authors must refrain from identifying themselves in their own paper.

Important Dates

All times Anywhere on Earth (AoE):

• Submissions open: Friday 4 October 2024
• Submission deadline: Friday 2 November 2024
• Bidding period ends and reviewing begins: Tuesday 5 November 2024
• Reviewing period ends and discussion begins: Friday 29 November 2024
• Author notifications: Monday 2 December 2023

Contribution Types

• Regular Papers: (up to 6-10 pages, oral presentation)
• Short papers (work in progress): (up to 4 pages, oral presentation)
• Ideas contributions: (2 pages, oral presentation)
• Extended abstracts: (2 pages, oral presentation)
• Posters (paper-based): (2 pages, oral presentation)
• Posters (slide-based, only): (oral presentation)
• Presentations (slide-based, only): (oral presentation)
• Demos: (2 pages)

Publication Cost

As the proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, authors need to be aware of the new cost structure for ICPS conferences.

The publishing cost ranges from $US350 to $US1000, unless authors work for an institution that is a member of the ACM Open program or are in a low-income country.

• Payment Deadline: No later than 28 December 2024.
• Refer to ACM ICPS Author Guidance for details.

Registration

At least one author of an accepted paper must register to attend ACSW.

Chairs

• Carolyn Seton, Southern Cross University
• Simon, Unaffiliated

Contact: ace2025@easychair.org