WCCE 2022 - IFIP TC3 World Conference on Computers in Education
Towards a Collaborative Society Through Creative Learning
August 2022
Sunday 20th August — Pre-conference event day(at Higashi-Senda campus of Hiroshima University https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/access#higashisenda)

Monday 21st to Thursday 24th August — Main Conference(at International Conference Center Hiroshima
International Conference Center Hiroshima (ICCH))

25th August — TC3 annual meeting(venue TBC, attendance TC3 members)
WCCE 2022 is planned to be held as a hybrid conference with onsite participation in Hiroshima, if the Coronavirus pandemic
situation allows, and online participation via the Internet possible in any case. Further details about the conference format will be
published in the next months on the conference website.

https://wcce2022.org

Call for Papers, Presentations and Other Contributions
Deadline for submissions: 28h February 2022

We invite you to submit your work to WCCE 2022, which enables you to:● Take an active role and be involved in discussions to consider concerns andapproaches for the future of technology for empowering learning, teaching, training
and professional development with digital technologies.
● Share knowledge and ideas about the rapidly emerging practices of Computer
Science Education (CSE), and the important role that CSE has in educating creatorsof the future.
● Discuss the importance of ensuring digital equity and e-inclusion and how we canachieve this for communities widely.
● Demonstrate and illustrate examples of global and mobile opportunities, used foreducational purposes in developed and developing countries.
● Access latest research and business solutions that have been transformed into
educational best practice, where outcomes are recognised and identified.
● Offer examples of how inclusive and adaptive technologies have impacted and canimpact both society and knowledge.
● Network with world-leading teachers, educators, professionals and technologists aswell as with strategy and policy experts.
● Be involved in sessions that allow experiences to be shared with others, including
leading technology developers, through innovative workshops on learningtechnologies.
● Present your work, research, developments, policy initiatives, and ideas, so that wecan all be inspired by leading examples from our wealth of international contributors
and speakers.

Themes of the conference
Submissions should cover one or more of the key themes within the focus of the conference “Towards a collaborative society through creative learning”. As the world is increasinglyinterconnected and complex, the need for more critical and creative thinkers as well as for people
able to fruitfully collaborate with others is increasing. Creative strategies must be implemented ineducation so that citizens, in general, and students at all levels, in particular, are better prepared tocreate new and meaningful forms of ideas, take risks, be flexible and cooperative. The focus ofWCCE 2022 “Towards a collaborative society through creative learning” provides an overarchingframework through which a range of more specific conference themes can be viewed. These areproposed with examples of specific topics that would fall within these themes below.
WCCE 2022 provides a forum for new research results, practical experiences, developments, ideas,and national perspectives, related to the conference focus and the themes listed below for all levelsof education (preschool, primary, secondary, higher, vocational, and lifelong learning) including theprofessional development of educators (teachers, trainers and academic and support staff at othereducational institutions) and related questions on educational management. The themes aregrouped by broad categories with examples of possible – but not exhaustive – sub-themes.
●Digital education in schools, universities, and other educational institutions
Examples of topics that can be presented under this theme could be:
Supporting the development of creativity in innovative institutions; developing
effective and creative teaching practices and pedagogies integrating technologies;
assessment, evaluation, certification of digital education; supporting educators’
empowerment, training and professional development; implementing e-inclusion ineducational institutions; positively supporting sustainable development and learning;models for digital education●National policies and plans for digital competence
Examples of topics that can be presented under this theme could be:Analysis of national cases; comparisons of different plans and policies in different
countries; curricula development●

Learning with digital technologies
Examples of topics that can be presented under this theme could be:Innovative learning environments integrating technologies; recent phenomena ineducation (e.g. MOOCs, virtual and distance laboratories, haptic technologies, etc.);
technologies supporting new forms of collaboration and practice as well as new roles
for students and teachers; developing uses of technologies in informal learning
situations and connecting them with formal contexts●Learning about digital technologies and computing
Examples of topics that can be presented under this theme could be:
Exploring computational thinking; computing and computer science education;
programming languages for education; digital media for learning about digitaltechnologies and computing; data science education and data scientist certification;
physical computing; socio-cultural aspects of digitisation; media structures in digital
mediaSubmissions
WCCE 2022 provides a forum for policy makers, practitioners and researchers. WCCE 2022
welcomes the following types of submissions, that are relevant to the conference focus and theconference themes. The indicated maximum number of pages assumes formatting according to theSpringer formatting style (https://bit.ly/3bdlGlE) and the page lengths include all sections from thesubmission title to the references, acknowledgments, etc.
I. Research-oriented submission formats
Research-oriented submissions (full and short papers) will be reviewed for presentation at theconference and inclusion in the post-conference book (see details below).
● Full papers (up to 12 pages) are standard academic research papers that describe:−

high-quality, unpublished, original research work and results (which can be either
empirical or theoretical),−

systematic literature reviews present novel arguments, syntheses, theoreticalanalyses, or the proposition of an original model, framework or theory,−national perspectives, policy directions, or new ideas for practice,−unpublished work on original projects with an emphasis on practical experiences,e.g. evaluating a teaching concept or a curricular initiative. Reports in thiscategory need to reflect on the findings and their relevance to the field.

● Short papers (up to 6 pages) are shorter research papers in academic format, which
can focus on the same topics as full papers and which present work in progress.

II. Presentation-oriented submission formats (abstracts, up to 2 pages)
Presentation-oriented submissions (abstracts) will be evaluated for presentation at the conference
only. An exception are papers arising from symposia (see below), which can be reviewed after theconference for publication in the post-conference book.
● Demonstration/poster abstracts: present emerging ideas for future research,teaching practice, or use of tools.
● Workshop abstracts: in workshops, innovative projects, teaching concepts,technologies or open problems are demonstrated and explored. Workshops comprise ashort presentation followed by an interactive session with the audience. Proposals forworkshops consist of an outline of the subject to be discussed, along with planned
activities, any specific infrastructure needed, time frame, and maximum number ofparticipants.
● Panel session abstracts: the intended chair of a panel should submit an abstract withthe indication of a panel of up to three identified speakers who will briefly present theirviews on a pertinent topic. The audience will be invited to participate in a round-tablediscussion.
● National sessions abstracts: a national overview from a national representative orrepresentative group on a policy, practice or research topic. A special session on Japan(in Japanese with translation) will be presented in the final programme of theconference.
● Symposia (up to 2 pages for the symposium description plus 1 page for eachpresentation): a symposium is a collection of related presentations on a central themeof the conference. The organiser(s) of a symposium should submit an outline of thetheme, the list of participants, and include a one-page abstract of each presentation.
Papers arising from the accepted symposium presentations can be reviewed after theconference for inclusion in the post-conference book.
For up-to-date details about submissions and for submitting contributions, please go towcce2022.org.

Publication
Post-conference publication will include both a post-conference book (planned to be published bySpringer in the AICT series) and a special issue of a journal of the Japanese Computer Society.
Full papers, short papers, and papers arising from an academic presentation in accepted
symposia will be considered for publication in the post-conference book, according to thefollowing criteria:● If you submit a full paper, the reviewers will assess initially whether the submission is worthyof inclusion within the conference. If the paper is accepted for presentation, and only requires
minor revision, then it will be judged worthy of being accepted for publication in the postconference book.
● If you submit a full paper that is accepted for presentation, but requires major revision, afurther review process is undertaken following the conference in order to assess whether itcan be accepted for publication in the post-conference book.
● If you submit a short paper, the reviewers will assess initially whether the submission isworthy of inclusion within the conference, but acceptance for publication in the postconference book will be decided following the conference. Acceptance of a short paper for
publication will depend on the number of short papers that can be accepted for the postconference book.
● If you submit a full or short paper following an academic presentation in one of the accepted
symposia, the reviewers will assess after the conference whether the submission is worthyof inclusion in the post-conference book.
If you submit an abstract, the reviewers will assess whether the submission is worthy ofpresentation within the conference. No assessment will be given to indicate whether thesubmission should be judged worthy of inclusion in any post-conference publication (with theexception of papers arising from symposia, as noted above).
Abstracts of all accepted submissions will be published online as part of the conference
programme.
The Local Organising Committee offers an alternative publication opportunity (a special issue ofthe Japanese Computer Society journal that accepts papers in English) for submissions (in theabove-mentioned formats) that will not be included in the post-conference book. Details about thisoption will be sent to authors of papers which were not accepted for the post-conference book, after
the post-conference review process is completed.

Key dates
Submission deadline:

28th February 2022

Notification of review results:

23rd April 2022

Conference date:

21st - 24th August 2022

Submission of revised papers: 3rd October 2022

Financial Support for Doctoral Students from Developing Countries
IFIP TC3 is keen to involve doctoral student participants from countries worldwide, especially fromdeveloping countries. Those coming from a developing country who would like to be involved bypresenting a paper, but who do not have funds to cover travel costs, should make early contact with
the IFIP TC3 chair Don Passey (d.passey@lancaster.ac.uk) by 28th February 2022 to explore
possible support.
Please see further details and register on the website: wcce2022.org