*** ICT4S Computing+Sustainability+Education Workshop ***

Date: May 14 and 18, 2018
Location: Toronto, Canada
URL: http://sustainabilitydesign.org/initiatives/compsused/

Held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on ICT4S 
(http://2018.ict4s.org), Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 
May 14-18, 2018

*** Background ***

The concept of sustainability has emerged as an area of interest in a number of 
fields in computing as well as being a part of the ACM CS2013 Core Curriculum 
as a Core Tier 1 topic. However, in a crowded computing curriculum, computing 
students have little chance to learn about the concepts needed to analyse 
sustainability beyond the technical scope of systems they develop in class.

The Computing, Sustainability, and Education workshop take a three-prong 
approach to tackling this challenge of lack of uptake in Sustainability 
Education within various areas of Computing, by:

* Fostering community growth that researchers on pedagogical approaches, 
methods, techniques, tools, and processes for teaching sustainability in the 
computing curricula;
* Expanding on the efforts of the pioneering practitioners that include 
(single, multi- and/or interdisciplinary)  modules or courses to integrate 
sustainability into computing education; and
* Providing a forum where the participants will collaboratively discuss and 
create curricula for ICT4S and SE4S education (including a list of tentative 
core subjects/issues and suggested core literature).

The primary aim of the workshop is to establish a forum for educators, 
researchers, and practitioners interested in the design and development of a 
curriculum for sustainability education and computing. With this participatory 
workshop, we aim to gather participants from academia as well as from industry 
who are interested in developing ICT4S education and discuss core subject 
areas, concrete examples and seminal literature that we use and/or that 
“should” be included in such courses. This workshop will thus be an 
interdisciplinary effort to further ICT for sustainability and the workshop is 
organised by persons who lead these developments and who all have experiences 
of planning and teaching sustainability courses for computer science students. 
This workshop takes place in two separate parts (part A and B) and you can 
register for either one or both.

*** Submissions ***

The workshop solicits a number of contribution types:

- Extended abstracts (2 pages): if accepted can be conveyed in a 10-15 minute 
talk;
- Posters: with a 2-page abstract;
- Positional papers: explicitly discussing what we can do to improve teaching 
sustainability within the computing curriculum (4-6 pages);
- Idea papers: that presents implementable proposals that participants will 
build on the proposals and ideas in these papers, with the goal of initiating 
the planning, development, and execution of some of the ideas during the 
workshop itself (4-6 pages);
- Experience papers: on teaching sustainability within the computing curriculum 
(6-10 pages);
- Demos: up to 5 minutes (also with 2 page abstract);
- Open collaboration papers (long or short) (new submission format). Here, 
author(s) can solicit for open collaboration on a paper. The solicitation 
starts at least two months before the submission deadline, via a form on the 
workshop webpage. The paper will be hosted and written via a collaborative 
edition platform e.g. overleaf etc.
- Full research papers (10 pages).

We also encourage the submission of new and interactive formats, which can be 
presented as such at the workshop, and published in the workshop proceedings 
with textual descriptions.

The submission, review process, and communication will be performed via 
Easychair.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed for relevance to the workshop and 
academic and practical soundness. The accepted submissions will be published 
with CEUR WS proceedings, listed in all literature databases (DBLP, Google 
Scholar, Scopus etc.), as we want to maintain an open access policy.

*** Important Dates ***

- Submission Deadline: April. 08th, 2018 (Anytime on Earth) via Easychair
- Decisions to authors: April 22nd, 2018
- Camera Ready due: April 29th, 2018
- Registration of at least one author: April 29th, 2018
- Workshop: May 14th and 18th, 2018

*** Organisers ***

- Stefanie Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Bristol, UK
- Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
- Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Hanna Hasselqvist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Anna Kramers, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Samuel Mann, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
- Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Birgit Penzenstadler, CSU Long Beach, USA
- Jari Porras, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
- Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK


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