COMPUTE 2025 Call for Contributions towards Best Practices in CS Education
COMPUTE Best Practices sessions provide an opportunity to share teaching best practices in computer science at the higher education level in a less formal setting than a paper presentation. Best Practices should not re-present previously published work. Proposal review is dual-anonymous. COMPUTE 2025 will be held face-to-face; all presenters must attend in person. At least one author must register, attend, and present.
Interested in being a reviewer for the Best Practices track papers? See Call for Reviewers.Who Should Submit and Why
- You have a novel classroom idea to share with the academic community.
- You seek collaboration to scale your idea to multiple classrooms.
- You want feedback and mentorship to publish in a conference or journal.
Submission Categories
Each category highlights a different aspect of academic teaching and faculty responsibilities:
- Best Practices in Teaching: Strategies to keep students engaged, develop societal skills, and adapt to changing educational environments.
- Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap: Curriculum alignment with industry needs and integration of real-world projects.
- Administrative Challenges in CS Education: Creative ways of managing OBE, Bloom’s Taxonomy, rankings, and more.
- Best Assessment Strategies: Effective, cooperative, and workload-efficient assessments.
- Computing’s Unique Need for Teaching Faculty: Preparing and supporting CS faculty in a rapidly evolving field.
- Ideas for Best Practices: In-progress or partially-implemented ideas with reflections, lessons, and challenges.
Best Practices Ideas
- Novel classroom activities
- Imaginative assignments that promote creativity and problem-solving
- Diverse pedagogical approaches (e.g., flipped classrooms, peer teaching, project-based learning)
- Designing AI-resistant or AI-integrated assessment questions
- Teaching CS to students from other disciplines (e.g., business, humanities, engineering)
Submission and Publication Details
Accepted contributors will submit an experience report based on their accepted best practice. Mentorship will be offered to prepare the camera-ready version as well as for further publication. All submissions in this track will be published separately on arXiv and assigned a DOI; they will not be included in the regular conference proceedings.
Submission Instructions
Initial submission: a 3-page document with the following structure:
- Abstract: 200–250 word summary emphasizing novelty
- Topic/Area/Context: Overview of subject/course/topic
- Best Practice: Detailed description of the method
- Justification: Why it’s innovative
- Outcomes: Observations, stakeholder responses, or expected impact
- Insights: Benefits, lessons learned, and challenges
- Conclusion: Summary of the practice
- Suggestions for Others: Implementation potential and pitfalls
- References: Optional
Review: Double-anonymous (no names, affiliations, or self-references)
Camera-Ready: Use Springer Computer Science Proceedings templates, max 5 pages (excluding references)
AI Usage Policy: COMPUTE will be adopting ACM's policy on the use of Generative AI for submissions - https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions.
Submission via CMT: The paper must be submitted as a PDF through the CMT3 conference management system at the following URL: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/COMPUTE2025
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline:
August 20, 2025, September 15, 2025 (AOE) - Notification to Authors:
October 1, 2025, October 3, 2025 - Camera-Ready Due:
October 15, 2025, October 31, 2025 - Conference Dates: December 07–09, 2025
Questions? Email the Best Practices Chairs at: bestpractice.compute@gmail.com