ACM-India announces the 13^th annual COMPUTE virtual conference hosted by Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India from December 10^th to 12^th, 2020. Since 2018, ACM-India has decided to focus the theme of COMPUTE towards improving the quality of computing education in the country. We seek 2-6 page abstracts from faculty and researchers in any theme of computing education, particularly in:

• Pedagogical tools or methodologies to improve teaching-learning
• Assessment tools or methodologies that are aligned to learning outcomes

COVID-19 related Note 1: In view of the prevailing pandemic, this conference will be held virtually. There will be no physical events at VNIT.

COVID-19 related Note 2: We highly encourage abstracts that discuss successful adaptations to online learning necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdown.

COMPUTE'20 will also feature keynote talks from academic and industry experts on specific topics on pedagogy and assessment. In addition, we plan to have a workshop on research in computer science education. Abstracts that have interesting ideas or proposals will be considered for this workshop, even if they are not well analysed. While COMPUTE doesn't publish proceedings, the conference will provideactive mentorship and facilitate collaborations to selected abstracts so that they can be polished and submitted for international conferences or journals.

SUBMISSIONS

Abstracts must be submitted in electronic form via EasyChair. Apart from explaining the tool or methodology in detail, abstracts should clearly demonstrate the impact through well researched methodology and data. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages (including the title page). The abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee for novelty and rigour. Selected abstracts will get slots for virtual presentations in the symposium.

Submission format:

Word template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11oKpUNP9q-Yk2OFXxZcXv62XyMKChbfU/view?usp=sharing

Submission Deadline: Friday, September 25, 2020 at 23:59 IST.

Notification to Authors: Monday, October 19, 2020.

Programme Committee: Viraj Kumar (co-chair, Dayananda Sagar University and IISc Bangalore), Venkatesh Raman (co-chair, IMSc Chennai), Sridhar Iyer (IIT Bombay), Umesh Deshpande (VNIT Nagpur), Chitra Babu (SSN College of Engineering Chennai), Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar), Venkatesh Choppella (IIIT Hyderabad)

Steering Committee: Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Math. Institute, Chennai), Abhiram Ranade (IIT Bombay), R. Venkatesh (TCS Research)

Organizing Committee: Umesh Deshpande (VNIT Nagpur), Ravindra Keskar (VNIT Nagpur), Manish P. Kurhekar (VNIT Nagpur)

Website: http://compute.india.hosting.acm.org