{"id":251,"date":"2025-05-05T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:12:51","slug":"best-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"251\" class=\"elementor elementor-251\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5ac2cf7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5ac2cf7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-942feab\" data-id=\"942feab\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82d0f3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"82d0f3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"compute-best-practices\">\r\n  <h2><strong>COMPUTE 2025 Call for Contributions towards <em>Best Practices in CS Education<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n \r\n\r\n  <p>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.<\/p>\r\n  \r\n  Interested in being a reviewer for the Best Practices track papers? See <a href=\"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/call-for-reviewers-best-practices-track-papers\/\">Call for Reviewers<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n  <h3><strong>Who Should Submit and Why<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>You have a novel classroom idea to share with the academic community.<\/li>\r\n    <li>You seek collaboration to scale your idea to multiple classrooms.<\/li>\r\n    <li>You want feedback and mentorship to publish in a conference or journal.<\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n\r\n  <h3><strong>Submission Categories<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n  <p>Each category highlights a different aspect of academic teaching and faculty responsibilities:<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li><strong>Best Practices in Teaching:<\/strong> Strategies to keep students engaged, develop societal skills, and adapt to changing educational environments.<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap:<\/strong> Curriculum alignment with industry needs and integration of real-world projects.<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Administrative Challenges in CS Education:<\/strong> Creative ways of managing OBE, Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy, rankings, and more.<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Best Assessment Strategies:<\/strong> Effective, cooperative, and workload-efficient assessments.<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Computing\u2019s Unique Need for Teaching Faculty:<\/strong> Preparing and supporting CS faculty in a rapidly evolving field.<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Ideas for Best Practices:<\/strong> In-progress or partially-implemented ideas with reflections, lessons, and challenges.<\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n\r\n  <h3><strong>Best Practices Ideas<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Novel classroom activities<\/li>\r\n    <li>Imaginative assignments that promote creativity and problem-solving<\/li>\r\n    <li>Diverse pedagogical approaches (e.g., flipped classrooms, peer teaching, project-based learning)<\/li>\r\n    <li>Designing AI-resistant or AI-integrated assessment questions<\/li>\r\n    <li>Teaching CS to students from other disciplines (e.g., business, humanities, engineering)<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <h3><strong>Submission and Publication Details<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n  <p>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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n  <h4><strong>Submission Instructions<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n  <p>Initial submission: a 3-page document with the following structure:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> 200\u2013250 word summary emphasizing novelty<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Topic\/Area\/Context:<\/strong> Overview of subject\/course\/topic<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Best Practice:<\/strong> Detailed description of the method<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Justification:<\/strong> Why it\u2019s innovative<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Outcomes:<\/strong> Observations, stakeholder responses, or expected impact<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Insights:<\/strong> Benefits, lessons learned, and challenges<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong> Summary of the practice<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Suggestions for Others:<\/strong> Implementation potential and pitfalls<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>References:<\/strong> Optional<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p><strong>Review:<\/strong> Double-anonymous (no names, affiliations, or self-references)<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>Camera-Ready:<\/strong> Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/computer-science\/lncs\/conference-proceedings-guidelines\"> Springer Computer Science Proceedings templates<\/a>, max 5 pages (excluding references)<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>AI Usage Policy:<\/strong> COMPUTE will be adopting ACM's policy on the use of Generative AI for submissions - <a href=https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/frequently-asked-questions> https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/frequently-asked-questions.<\/a><\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>Submission via CMT: <\/strong>The paper must be submitted as a PDF through the CMT3 conference management system at the following URL:<a href=\"https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/COMPUTE2025\"> https:\/\/cmt3.research.microsoft.com\/COMPUTE2025<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n  <h3><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n  <ul>\r\n     <li><strong>Submission Deadline:<\/strong> <S> August 20, 2025<\/S>, September 15, 2025 (AOE) <\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Notification to Authors:<\/strong> <s>October 1, 2025<\/s>, October 3, 2025<\/li>\r\n    <li><strong>Camera-Ready Due:<\/strong> <s>October 15, 2025<\/s>, October 31, 2025<\/li>\r\n\r\n    <li><strong>Conference Dates:<\/strong> December 07\u201309, 2025<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p><strong>Questions?<\/strong> Email the Best Practices Chairs at: <a href=\"mailto:bestpractice.compute@gmail.com\">bestpractice.compute@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isigcse.acm.org\/compute\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}