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1 Update on ACM Education Board and Council activities Jane Prey and Mehran Sahami ACM Education Board Co-Chairs

2 Overview New Ed Board/Council Members Update on Learning @ Scale Conference –Wrap-up of L@S 2014 –Progress on L@S 2015 Planning Priorities for the Future

3 New Ed Board/Council Members Andrew McGettrick  Past Chair –Thanks for many years of service as Chair! New Ed Board members –Lissa Clayborn (CSTA) –Renee Dopplick (ACM Policy) –Beth Hawthorne (Community Colleges) –Chris Stephenson (CSTA  Google) New Ed Council members –Valerie Barr (ACM-W) –Barbara Boucher Owens (SIGCAS) –Cameron Wilson (ACM  code.org)

4 Update on Learning @ Scale conference Learning @ Scale: new ACM conference –First meeting: March 2014, collocated with SIGCSE –Underwritten by Ed Board (not SIG) Given success of first conference, planning on making this annual meeting –L@S Steering Committee formed

5 Learning @ Scale 2014 L@S 2014 in numbers: –194 attendees –38 full papers submitted, 14 accepted (37%) –56 WIP submitted, 37 posters + 5 demos accepted (76%) –Revenue: $119,143; Expenses: $64,965; Surplus: $54,178 Attendees crossed several sub-disciplines of CS –Primary representation: CS education, HCI, and Systems Also attracted attendees form education –Primary representation: learning sciences ACM TOCHI special issue after conference

6 Learning @ Scale 2015 L@S 2015 update: –Collocated with Computer Support of Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference, March 14-15 in Vancouver, BC –General Chair: Gregor Kiczales (UBC) –Program Chairs: Dan Russell (Google), Bev Woolf (UMass) Rob Miller (MIT) was a PC co-chair, but stepped down for reasons unrelated to the conference –Communications Chair: Ido Roll (UBC) –Opening Keynote: Peter Norvig (Google, Ed Council) –Paper submission deadline: October 22 Sponsorship –Google committed $25K –Also approaching Microsoft, Oracle, and Facebook

7 Planning Priorities for the Future Everyone list what they think should be four educational priorities for ACM Area we’d like to address (among others): –Making ACM Ed more internationally inclusive –Promoting CS education research –Coordinating with external efforts where appropriate E.g., CS Principles, code.org, CS10K, others –Goals/rationalizations of CS education conferences SIGCSE, ITiCSE, ICER, Learning@Scale, others –Future computing curricula initiatives –Initiatives in K-12 –Initiatives arising from PACE, ACM-NDC, CCECC, others

8 Send ideas to: janeprey@gmail.com


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