iCSTW22: The 2022 Illinois Computer Science Teaching Workshop University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, United States, August 15-16, 2022 |
Conference website | https://publish.illinois.edu/cs-teaching-workshop/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icstw22 |
The 2022 Illinois Computer science Summer Teaching Workshop will be held virtually over two half-days on August 15–16, 2022. Our goal is to bring together college instructors who are engaged with teaching computer science to discuss best practices, present new ideas, challenge the status quo, propose new directions, debunk existing assumptions, advocate for new approaches, and present surprising or preliminary results related to the workshop theme or beyond. The 2022 theme is Feedback, Online assessment, and Building an Inclusive Classroom, allowing participants to share how they provide feedback to their students, delve into the pros and cons of certain assessment methods, or reflect on steps taken to provide assessments and feedback that are inclusive.
Important Deadlines:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30 2022
- Notifications: July 18 2022
- Conference: August 15,16, 2022
Submission Guidelines
Abstract submissions are now open. The workshop solicits one page abstracts on topics related broadly to the theme of the conference. Submissions can discuss best practices, present new ideas, or present surprising or preliminary results. Each talk slot will be 30-minutes in length, but talks should be 20-minutes or shorter, to leave ample time for discussion.
Submissions will be managed by EasyChair. Submissions can be made here.
Committees
Program Committee
- Daniel Bauer, Columbia University
- Margaret Fleck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mia Minnes, UC San Diego
- Marco Morales, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eric Shaffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Organizing committee
- Abdu Alawini, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
- Yael Gertner, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
- Brad Solomon, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers
Sarah Heckman
Dr. Sarah Heckman is an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor with the Department of Computer Science. She serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the department and was the first teaching-track faculty hired in Computer Science at NC State. She is also a three-time graduate of the department and received her Ph.D. in August of 2009. Dr. Heckman received the NC State University Outstanding Teacher Award and the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award as a representative of the College of Engineering in Spring 2015. She is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NC State. Dr. Heckman teaches several of the core courses in software engineering and programming languages. Her research interests are in computer science education and software engineering. As a graduate student, she was a three-time recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
Cinda Heeren
Cinda Heeren is an associate teaching professor in the computer science department at the University of British Columbia. Prior to moving to UBC in Summer, 2017, Cinda was a Professor of teaching of CS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her typical teaching activities include UBC’s large, core-CS Data
Structures course, CPSC221. Her consistent, engaging work in the course was recognized in Spring, 2020 when she was awarded the Killam Teaching Prize. Cinda is a committed user and early adopter of a reliable, modern, freely available, scalable, online assessment tool called PrairieLearn, and she supports a community of practice around its adoption at UBC. Her most recent creative project is the development of CPSC203—a data structures and algorithms course designed specifically for non-CS majors, that ties together classic problems from CS with applications from the arts and sciences.
Finally, and most importantly, Cinda continues to be a vocal advocate for diversifying the field of computing through outreach, program development, and undergraduate community-building. She is the Chair of the CS Department’s Committee on Outreach, Diversity, and Equity (CODE), and she evangelizes for inclusive and innovative teaching practices at every level of instruction.
Dan Garcia
Dan Garcia (UC Berkeley MS 1995, PhD 2000) is a Teaching Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. Selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019, he has won all four of the department’s computer science teaching awards, and holds the record for the highest teaching effectiveness ratings in the history of several of the department’s courses.He is a national leader in the “CSforALL” movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field. Locally, he serves as the CSforCA higher education co-chair. Thanks to four National Science Foundation grants, the “Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)” non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 500 high school teachers. He is delighted to regularly have more than 50% female enrollment in BJC, with a high mark of 65% in the Spring of 2018, shattering the record at UC Berkeley for an intro computing course, and is among the highest in the nation! He is humbled by the national exposure he and the course have received in the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, NPR’s All Things Considered, USA Today, and the front pages of the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle.
He has won the NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring award, the UC Berkeley Unsung Hero award, the LPFI Lux award, the SAP Visionary Member award, and was chosen as a Google CS4HS Ambassador for his work to support teachers and diversify computing. He has served on the ACM Education Board, the College Board Computer Science Principles Development Committee, was the ACM SIGCSE Program co-chair in 2017, and the ACM SIGCSE Symposium co-chair in 2018. He was recently elected ACM SIGCSE Vice-Chair for the 2019-2022 term. In 2019 it was announced he was the most frequent SIGCSE author in their 50-year history, with *61* submissions of all kinds: papers, panels, workshops, posters, etc.; second place had 42.
Geoffrey Challen
Geoffrey Challen is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Illinois. He teaches introductory programming and computer science to thousands of students each year, and creates novel software to support his courses and materials. Geoffrey publishes essays on teaching and technology at geoffreychallen.com, where you can also find out more about his work.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to alawini@illinois.edu