KOLI CALLING 2011 - Koli Calling '11 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research

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Category KOLI CALLING 2011

Deadline: June 15, 2011 | Date: November 17, 2011-November 20, 2011

Venue/Country: Koli National Park, Finland

Updated: 2011-06-04 16:32:11 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Koli National Park, Finland, November 17th - November 20th, 2011

Koli Calling is one of the leading international conferences dedicated to the

exchange of research and practice relevant to Scholarship of Teaching and

Learning and Education Research in the Computing disciplines. Koli Calling aims

to publish high quality research that combines teaching and learning

experiences with solid, theoretically anchored research. The conference is held

in the inspiring surroundings of the Koli National Park in Eastern Finland, an

hour's drive north of the city of Joensuu. The 2011 conference is organized by

Aalto University in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, USA and

the University of Eastern Finland.

CONFERENCE FORMAT

Koli Calling is a single track conference with research, practice and systems

presentations as well as keynote speeches. The conference language is English.

The conference is known for its moderate size, intimate atmosphere, and lively

discussions, consequently a limited number of submissions will be accepted.

Last year approximately fifty participants from ten countries on three

continents attended the conference.

TOPICS

Original submissions in all areas related to the conference theme are invited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

+ Computing education research: methodologies and results

+ Educational technology, software, and tools

+ Use of technology to support education in computing and related sciences

+ Tools for visualization or concretization

+ Teaching innovations, best practices, experience, assessment development and

case studies in Computing Education

+ Distance education, virtual and open universities in computing

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

+ Research Paper [8-10 pages]. Unpublished, original, theoretically anchored

research related to the conference theme. Papers will be of high quality and

present novel arguments, syntheses, results, methods or tools. Research papers

are mainly evaluated by the relevance and quality of the research.

+ Systems Papers [4-8 pages]. Koli will include a "systems and tools showcase"

as a way to recognise the significant contribution that system implementers

make to computing education research. Accepted systems papers will describe the

rationale behind the system, its development, and the effectiveness of the tool

in the context of CS education. The program committee will also select one of

accepted systems to receive the Koli Calling Educational Tool Award at the

conference. See http://verkkoopetus.cs.utu.fi/koli/ for links to previous Koli

systems papers., can be accessed at the conference website.

+ Discussion Paper [4-6 pages]. Unpublished, original work in progress, or

dissemination and discussion of new ideas in Computing Education Research.

Discussion papers should clearly indicate the issue that the author aims to

discuss, as well as discussion questions and a mechanism to promote a debate

among the conference participants. A discussion paper is evaluated by its

anticipated impact on discussions during the conference. At least half the

presentation time allocated to a discussion paper should be used for a public

discussion.

+ Poster/demo [2 page abstract]. Interactive presentation of emerging ideas for

research, teaching practice, or tools can be presented as posters or

demonstrations. Submissions are evaluated based on their originality and the

possible future contribution to the field of Computing Education. In addition

to the abstract and live tool demo on site, we strongly encourage the author(s)

to prepare a max. 3 minutes screencast (a short video) to be presented for the

audience before the demo session as well as to be included in the conference

website.

Additionally, there will be two workshops [see separate links on conference

website] + A Doctoral Consortium for PhD students studying computing education

+ "Teaching computing at school and training computing teachers", a workshop on

secondary computing education and the training of secondary computing teachers.

REVIEW PROCESS AND PUBLICATION

To ensure selection of high quality contributions, submissions for the

Research, System, and Discussion Paper categories are reviewed by at least

three members of the international Program Committee. Demo and Poster abstracts

are reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. The Koli Calling

Program Committee takes pride in considering submissions thoroughly and

providing constructive feedback. The review process is double-blind, so

submitted papers should be anonymized.

All accepted contributions will be available as an electronic pre-proceedings

prior to the conference. The papers from the conference will be indexed and

available through the ACM Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an

extended version of the paper to a the ACM Transactions on Computing Education

(TOCE). Extended papers will undergo additional reviewing before they are

accepted for publication in TOCE.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: Papers due: June 15th

Notification of Acceptance: September 1

Submission of revised manuscripts: October 1st

Early Registration deadline: October 15th

Conference: November 17th (evening) - November 20th (lunch-time)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Please follow the instructions on the conference web page,

http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/kolistelut/.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Robert McCartney, University of Connecticut, USA

Ari Korhonen, Aalto University, Finland

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Moti Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Anders Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden

Michael E. Caspersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Valentina Dagiene, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Mikko-Jussi Laakso, University of Turku

Hannu-Matti Järvinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Mike Joy, University of Warwick, UK

Päivi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland

Maria Knobelsdorf, University of Potsdam

Raymond Lister, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Lauri Malmi, Aalto University, Finland

Arnold Pears, Uppsala University, Sweden

Guido Rößling, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland

Carsten Schulte, Freie Universit‰t Berlin, Germany

Judy Sheard, Monash University, Australia

Simon, University of Newcastle, Australia

Jarkko Suhonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Erkki Sutinen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

MORE INFORMATION

See conference web site http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/kolistelut/ or contact Ari

Korhonen and Robert McCartney .

Call for Participation

Koli 2011 Working group on

Teaching Computing at School / Computing Teacher Education

Summary

The aim of this workshop is to collect the state of the art and current

activities regarding Teaching Computing at School / Computing Teacher Education

in multiple countries; and to use this overview to develop a vision and/or

identify trends of what to do next.

We therefore intend to gather together a group of experts in a working group

that will collect information on local activities via online collaboration

prior to Koli Calling 2011 and then meet during the conference to discuss and

outline a report on Teaching Computing at School / Computing Teacher Education.

Detailed Information

In different countries Computer Science Education in

Schools is evolving. New initiatives, new curricula, new forms of support for

teachers, development of course materials and so own contribute to this ? but

only very rarely these initiatives and developments take notice from each

other.

In a workshop on Computer Science Education at Schools / Computer Science

Teacher Education we aim to bring together experiences, approaches, and ideas,

and develop a vision for future steps to support each other.

The focus is on Teacher education because teachers are at the heart of maturing

the situation of Computer science education in schools. The focus is on those

aspects of teacher education / teacher support that aim to contribute to the

evolution of CSEd at school.

Procedure

The working group will first collect and share information, and will

then discuss ideas for developing and maturing CS teaching and CS teacher

education.

In the first stage, prior to the face-to-face meeting during Koli Conference,

information on national state of the art in computing education at schools and

teacher education will be collected using online collaboration. Participants

basically refine and then fill out a questionnaire on the current situation.

Also in the first stage a preliminary overview or summary on the collected data

will be developed.

During the workshop we will discuss trends, future developments, and

perspectives. Therefore the working group will specify problem areas, research

questions, and possible development tasks.

After the conference the results will be edited and polished in order to

produce a final report intended for publication.