FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Informatics Education Europe III (IEEIII 2008) Venice, Italy, December 4-5, 2008 http://www.dsi.unive.it/IEEIII Sponsored by ACM, IFIP; Microsoft, Ca' Foscari University Important dates May 22, 2008: Paper submission deadline July 19, 2008: Notification of Accepted Papers September 5, 2008: Camera-ready deadline Scope Informatics is still an emerging discipline, and the high-level skills required by the European IT context point out the request for commonly accepted guidelines for innovative academic curricula and a shared methodology to base the teaching on proper learning theory frameworks. Since 2006, IEE conferences investigate the role and strategies of Informatics education in Europe, becoming a major forum to share professional experiences, innovative ideas and to activate cooperation projects. In particular, IEEIII will focus on the role of cooperation and the use of new technologies to support the coherence of the learning outcome of academic curricula with the expected professional profiles. We believe the conference will be of interest to all involved in Informatics education in Europe, from the lecturers teaching daily to the Heads of Department and Deans who shape policy and curriculum within their Universities. Topics Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. This is an indicative list of topics considered for paper submission. * Accreditation and assessment * Promoting multi-disciplinary initiatives - impact on curricula * Innovative degree programs * Innovative uses of technology in the classroom * Partnerships with industry * International cooperation, double degrees and mobility * Integrating gender and culture issues into informatics curricula * The balance between course-work and research * Debugging tools and programming learning * Expanding the audience for informatics * Funding opportunities for curriculum development and studies * Collaborative learning * Undergraduate & postgraduate Curriculum Design & Development * Academic Staff Development - Standards in Teaching & Learning * Distance Learning: Methods, Technologies and Assessment * Innovative Methods in Teaching & Learning Submission instructions Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages in camera-ready form, including figures and references. All submissions must be in English. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and authors will be required to sign a copyright release. Paper submissions will be managed online via the easychair web-submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeiii08 Program Committee Agostino Cortesi, University of Venice, Italy (Chair) June Amillo, Universidad Politécnica, Spain Roger Boyle, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Chiara Braghin, University of Milan, Italy Michael E.Caspersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Betim Cico, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania Tony Cowling, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Gordon Davies, ACM Education Board, United Kingdom Petros Kefalas, City College, Greece Flaminia Luccio, University of Venice, Italy Vira Lyubchenko, National Polytechnic University, Ukraine Peter Marwedel, University of Dortmund, Germany Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Gabriel Michel, Université de Metz, France Thomas Ottmann, University of Freiburg, Germany Karl C. Posch, Graz University of Technology, Austria Paolo Rocchi IBM, Italy Pierluigi Sanpietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Riccardo Scateni, University of Cagliari, Italy Willhelm Shaefer, University of Paderborn, Germany Dragan Solesa, University of Novi Sad ,Serbia Anna Sotiriadou, City College, Greece Jan van Leeuwen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands Katerina Zdravkova, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, FYROM Organizing Committee Emanuela Boschetto, University of Venice, Italy Flaminia Luccio, University of Venice, Italy Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy