ISSEP 2015 - 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspective

8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools:
Situation, Evolution, and Perspective
http://issep15.fri.uni-lj.si
September 28 - October 1, 2015
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Computer and Information Science
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL March 25th **
Call for Papers
The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation,
Evolution, and Perspective (ISSEP) is an established forum for
researchers and practitioners in the area of Computer Science
Education with a focus on secondary schools. The ISSEP series started
in 2005 in Klagenfurt, with following meetings held in Vilnius (2006),
Torun (2008), Zürich (2010), Bratislava (2011), Oldenburg (2013), and
Istanbul (2014). The conference language is English.
SCOPE
The main topic of the conference are:
- Sustainable education in Informatics for pupils of all ages
- Connecting Informatics lessons to the students’ everyday lives
- Teacher education in Informatics
- Research on Informatics in schools (empirical / qualitative /
quantitative / theory building / research methods / comparative
studies / transferability of methods and results from other
disciplines)
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:
- Accessibility
- Assessment
- Classroom management
- Communication skills
- Contests and Competitions in Informatics
- Computers and society
- Courseware
- Curriculum issues
- Research in Informatics education
- Diagnostic teaching
- Empirical methods
- Ethical/societal issues
- Gender and diversity issues
- High school/college transition issues
- Information systems
- Interdisciplinary courses and projects
- Laboratory/active learning
- Misconceptions
- Multimedia
- Pedagogy
- Student retention and persistence
- Teacher education
- Role of programming and algorithmics
- Using emerging instructional technologies
- Web-based techniques
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: **EXTENDED** March 25, 2015
Author notification: May 15, 2015
Camera ready due: July 20, 2015
Symposium: September 28 - October 1, 2015
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Tim Bell, Canterbury
Maria Knobelsdorf, Berlin
Miha Kos, Ljubljana
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the ISSEP 2015
proceedings. Selected, high-qualitity papers will be published in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer-Verlag).
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting
original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics
related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences
or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed.
There are three different submission categories:
- Research and theory papers
- Best practice papers / country reports
- Work in progress / discussion papers
Submissions must not exceed 12 pages (8 pages for work-in-progress and
discussion papers) formatted according to LNCS style (available here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...) plus an
optional, clearly marked appendix of reasonable length. Do not change
the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.:
use the LNCS style file as given, but please do add page numbers,
which can be done, for example, by adding pagestyle{plain} just
before begin{document}.
All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the
authors. The submission system can be accessed via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issep2015.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Erik Barendsen, Nijmegen
Andrej Brodnik, Ljubljana (General Chair)
Michael Caspersen, Arhus
Valentina Dagiene, Vilnius
Barbara Demo, Turino
Ira Diethelm, Oldenburg
Kathi Fisler, Worcester
Yasemin Gülbahar Güven, Ankara
Bruria Haberman, Tel Aviv
Juraj Hromkovič, Zurich
Peter Hubwieser, Munich
Peter Micheuz, Klagenfurt
Ralf Romeike, Erlangen
Jože Rugelj, Ljubljana
Carsten Schulte, Berlin
Chris Stephenson, Mountain View
Maciej Syslo, Torun
Josh Tenenberg, Washington
Françoise Tort, Cachan
Jan Vahrenhold, Münster (PC Chair)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Andrej Brodnik, Ljubljana (General Chair)
Nataša Mori, Ljubljana
Gašper Fele-Žorž, Ljubljana
Matevž Jekovec, Ljubljana
CONTACT
Andrej Brodnik, Faculty of Information and Computer Science,
University of Ljubljana, Vecna pot 113, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
E-mail: info-AT-issep15.fri.uni-lj.si
WWW: http://issep15.fri.uni-lj.si