Past Call for Contributions and Participation

The Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education is a forum for disseminating experience and information on developing and delivering programs and courses broadly defined in computer science, computer technology, or information systems. The conference aims to bring together educators, industrial partners, and government officials interested in the instruction and delivery of computing-related courses and the development and evolution of computing education.

This year, we are continuing to broaden participation among Canadian computing educators. To foster this interchange of ideas, the organizers of WCCCE 2025 welcome papers, posters, nifty assignments, and special sessions on the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

New or experimental computing-education curricula at any level, including K-12
Teaching methods or tools for specific concepts or courses, general methods and tools for computing-related courses
Methods, tools, and effective structures for designing, teaching and grading, including automation tools
Experience reports on the use of new techniques or technology
Applications and techniques to support distance and/or distributed learning
Broadening participation and improving student wellbeing
School outreach programs or high-school programs for computer programming and/or computational thinking
Computing education research

We intend to have the Conference Proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library or an equivalent venue. Further details on the Proceedings publication will be posted once confirmed.

If you effectively use unique methods to teach a computing-related topic or have successfully adopted a new tool or technology in your computing-related courses or labs, this is an opportunity to tell people about it. If you have developed a tool that improves the instructional quality of your courses or provides insight into the learning process, this is the place to demonstrate it. Even if you have tried methods or tools in your instruction with little success, we are still eager to hear about it. Your experience can help us all.

Student Research Showcase

This year, WCCCE has added a separate submission track for student research in any of the categories below. All works created primarily by students (undergraduate or graduate) and which will be presented by a student author are eligible, and you will be given the option to opt-in to this submission track when you make your submission.

Work that may be considered for this may include: senior projects; summer projects; projects from USRAs, Mitacs, etc. where the student presenting the work has made significant contributions to the work in question.

Submission and Review Procedure

The deadline for all submissions has passed. ('Twas Tuesday, March 4^th, 2025, 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth.)

Submission Link

WCCCE 2025 will be run in an in-person format only, and presenters are required to register for and attend the conference to be eligible to present.

Except for panel and special session submissions, any identifying information, such as authors’ names, institution names, or identifying references, must be replaced by the authors with placeholders so the papers can be anonymously reviewed. Submissions which are not properly anonymized will be disregarded. The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to modify their submissions, considering the reviewers’ comments, and to replace any placeholders with the proper identifiers, before publication.

Please let us know if you are willing to serve as a reviewer.