2025 ACM Global Computing Education Conference in Botswana, 21-22 October – Another Working Group!

Posted: May 8, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: Education | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Well, well, a third post in the year? Who made me research active? (I have not yet really been made research rigorous, despite some valiant attempts) I’m very excited to announce that we’ve got a working group advertised for the 2025 ACM Global Computing Education Conference in Botswana and we’d love to get more people involved. The Main conference runs Oct 23-25, Working Groups Oct 21-22 and Doctoral Consortium Oct 22.

You can join A/Prof Claudia Szabo, me, Dr. Munienge Mbodila, and Prof Judy Sheard as we work to assess impact, analyse the effects on higher ed institutions, and identify the challenges, with a focus on the Global South.

It’s Working Group 5, entitled “Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education: An ACM Task Force Working Group to Develop a Landscape Analysis – Perspectives from the Global Souths and Guidelines for CS1/CS2/CS3″

Brief motivation

This ACM working group, fitting within the broader remit of an ACM Task Force, aims to investigate the ethical and societal impacts of Generative AI tools within the higher computing education landscape within the Global South and to provide guidelines for the ethical incorporation of AI into teaching and assessment in CS1, CS2 and CS3, considering the desired learning outcomes at each level, student learning behaviour, validity of assessment and academic integrity, and local ethical frameworks. This working group will conduct a landscape analysis on Global South ethical questions related to the use of Generative AI tools in higher education contexts, identifying promising principles, challenges, and ways to navigate the implementation of Generative AI in ethical and principled ways. This working group builds on the ITiCSE working group with a similar name, and is developed under the guidance of two of that working group’s leaders, namely Alison Clear and Tony Clear. It focuses the lens on the Global South and specifically on CS1-3 perspectives within this space.

Get Involved!

If you want to read more or apply, please follow the link to the WG page and fill out your application before the end of May 9, anywhere around the world! There are excellent travel grants available to support this so check those out, too!