ACM COMPUTE 2025 Best Practices Track Proceedings

TL;DR

This collection of papers from ACM COMPUTE 2025's Best Practices Track showcases innovative teaching methods, diverse pedagogical strategies, and practical experiences aimed at enhancing computing education in India.

Contribution

It introduces a variety of novel classroom activities, assessment techniques, and pedagogical approaches specifically tailored for computing education in the Indian context.

Findings

Effective innovative classroom activities documented

Diverse pedagogical approaches demonstrated

Practical assessment strategies for AI and interdisciplinary teaching

Abstract

COMPUTE is an annual Indian conference supported by ACM India and iSIGCSE. The focus of COMPUTE is to improve the quality of computing education in the country by providing a platform for academicians and researchers to interact and share best practices in teaching, learning, and education in general. The Best Practices Track of COMPUTE 2025 invited Computer Science Educators across the country to submit an experience report for the best practices under multiple categories: 1) Novel classroom activities, 2) Imaginative assignments that promote creativity and problem-solving, 3) Diverse pedagogical approaches (e.g., flipped classrooms, peer teaching, project-based learning), 4) Designing AI-resistant or AI-integrated assessment questions, and 5) Teaching CS to students from other disciplines (e.g., business, humanities, engineering). These proceedings contain papers selected from these submissions for presentation at the conference, as well as a report (written by the editors) from the two best practices sessions where these were presented.