CompEd is the ACM Computing Education Conference series focussed on building a community of computing education researchers across the world. At the intersection of computing and the learning sciences, the event seeks to promote global computing education development. The conference is fully dual anonymous with an expected acceptance rate of between 25 and 35%. Accepted papers will be indexed and archived in the gold-standard ACM Digital Library. 

The 3rd ACM Global Computing Education Conference will be held at the University of Botswana October 21-25, 2025. This conference brings together the best thinking from across the African continent and from around the world.  We encourage your participation in this emerging community and welcome you to share your innovative ideas for computing syllabi, laboratories, teaching, pedagogy, and education research with a global audience.

We cordially invite colleagues from around the world to present their work through the submission of conventional papers and posters or by participating in a working group or a panel. We will also be piloting a phased-paper track.

Submissions may describe an educational research project, classroom experience, teaching technique, curricular initiative, or a tool used for computing education or computing education research.

Within the domain of computing education, submissions will cover specific educational subject matter, including but not limited to:

    pedagogies for enhancing learning in computing subject areas, such as programming, database systems, physical computing, or computer security;
    leveraging data and analytics to improve learning;
    use of technologies with specific application to computing education;
    approaches to peer learning and novel educational methods;
    social and global challenges in computing education;
    broadening participation and diversity;
    developing, implementing, or evaluating computing programs, curricula, and courses;
    approaches to group work or class infrastructure;
    teacher skills, teacher education, and teacher professional development.

All those considering an CompEd submission should read the Important information for authors.

CompEd 2025 will be an in-person conference. It is not anticipated that there will be facilities for either presenters or audience to attend virtually.

CompEd 2025 papers will not be open access. SIGCSE is part of the Open Surround program https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess#h-acm-opensurround-service. CompEd 2025 papers will be freely available to the world via the DL for one month surrounding the conference.