-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] The 21st ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE) and Covid-19 Pandemic – SIGITE2020 GOES VIRTUAL and CFP deadline extended to June 15th, 2020 Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 16:43:43 +0000 From: Deepak Khazanchi khazanchi@unomaha.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

The 21st ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE) and Covid-19 Pandemic – SIGITE2020 GOES VIRTUAL and CFP deadline extended to June 15th, 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

With the Covid-19 situation not abating, the SIGITE Executive Board has decided to move the 21st ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education at Omaha to a completely VIRTUAL mode while maintaining the October 7 - 9, 2020 dates for the conference. In view of this change to a virtual mode, we will also be offering substantially REDUCED registration rates that cover all our costs. We expect to reduce student registration and K-12 teacher registration costs for the conference to somewhere in the $20-$25 range. We our also extending our paper submission deadline June 15th, 2020 and we encourage you to get your work submitted as soon as possible. We once again invite university faculty, instructors, K-12 educators, community colleges, corporate and public sector, and all others interested in IT education and research to participate in this conference. We welcome submissions in the following categories: Papers, panels, workshops, extended abstracts and big ideas in IT education. All papers will still go through a peer review process and create an official ACM proceedings for full papers and abstracts.

For more information about the CFP and submission details please visit the conference websitehttp://sigite2020.sigite.org/ or review the PDFhttps://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/sigite2020/call-for-papers/cfp-poster.php. Also, if you would like to be an academic or industry sponsor of the conference, we have a variety of opportunities to engage on the “supporters” page of the web site.

Thanks,

Deepak, George and Harvey (Deepak Khazanchi, George Grispos and Harvey Siy) Conference and Program Chairs, SIGITE Annual Conference 2020 http://SIGITE2020.SIGITE.org

About SIGITE Annual Conferences and SIGITE2020 @ Omaha: The conference is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (SIGITE). The conference provides a forum for sharing and developing ideas relating to Information Technology (IT) research, education, applications, IT industry-academia relationships, and our roles as professionals, educators, teachers, and advocates for the effective use of information technology. IT as a professional endeavor is influenced by multiple disciplines – computer science, information systems, management science, cognitive science, psychology, learning, and much more. Consequently, educators at all levels (secondary school through University) have to deal with challenges of emergent areas of study such as IT innovation, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Machine Interaction (HMI), Cybersecurity, Agile Software Engineering, Social Informatics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and much more.

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