Fifth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2003)

4 - 7 February 2003, Adelaide, Australia

The Fifth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2003) will be part of the Australasian Computer Science Week, hosted by The South Australian Consortium for Information Technology, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 4-7 February 2003.

Abstracts of papers to be presented

Provisional Synopsis of ACSW Timetable

The following is from the Call For papers ...

The technical program of ACE 2003 will consist of both presentations and demonstrations. The conference solicits submissions that describe innovations in teaching computing in its various aspects, e.g. computer science, information systems, software engineering and information technology, at all levels and in all contexts. Typical topics include, but are not restricted to, innovations in the following areas:

These innovations may be in the context of formal courses or self-directed learning; they may involve, for example, introductory programming, service courses, specialist undergraduate or postgraduate topics, industry-related short courses. We welcome submissions directed at issues of current and local importance, as well as topics of international interest. Such topics may include transition from school to university, articulation between vocational and university education, quality management in teaching, teaching people from other cultures, attracting and retaining female students, and flexible learning.

The program committee will select the papers to appear based on their potential to enhance learning outcomes in computing courses. All papers will be fully refereed using a double blind reviewing process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Noon, Monday September 23, noon (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
Notification of acceptance: 18th October, 2002
Camera-ready copy: 15th November, 2002
Author registration: 13th December, 2002
Conference: 4-7 February, 2003

Paper Format:

Papers may not exceed 10 pages. Papers are required to conform to the formatting guidelines of the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology. Submissions in MS Word format are preferred, but postscript and PDF files are acceptable. A sample Word style file is available and a latex template is available from the CRPIT web site.

Submission Process:

As the first step, and well prior to the September 6 deadline for papers, intending authors (or the nominated contact author of a group) should email raymond@it.uts.edu.au and ask for a paper number. In that email, authors should give full contact details, including a telephone number. If possible, the authors should nominate a (non-binding) working title for the paper and/or a brief description of its content. Further instructions on paper submission will be included in the return email, along with the paper number. Submission will be electronic.

A paper should not be submitted to more than one of the conferences in ACSW.

Program Committee:

Tony Greening, University of Sydney (co-chair)
Raymond Lister, University of Technology, Sydney (co-chair)
Robert Biddle, Victoria University of Wellington
Ilona Box, University of Western Sydney
Kay Bryant, Griffith University
Chris Cope, La Trobe University
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland
Roger Duke, University of Queensland
Alan Fekete, University of Sydney
Sally Fincher, University of Canterbury at Kent, UK.
Robert Goodwin, Flinders University
Elizabeth Haywood, Victoria University of Technology
John Hurst, Monash University
Judy Kay, University of Sydney
Judy Sheard, Monash University
Denise Tolhurst, University of New South Wales
Alison Young, UNITEC Institute of Technology