The Future of EduCHI
This post presents an overview of the EduCHI conference (see EduCHI 2024), potentially also an upcoming SIGCHI-sponsored conference. Please reach out to Dr. Colin Gray if you are interested in getting involved or learning more.
The annual EduCHI symposium brings together an international community of scholars and educators to build the future of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Initially held in conjunction with the CHI conference and now organized as a standalone in-cooperation event with ACM SIGCHI, the EduCHI symposium is designed to foster the exchange of innovative pedagogical approaches and address the needs of HCI educators from around the world. EduCHI is one of the signature events emerging from the HCI Education Community of Practice (CoP), which began in 2011 when ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee sponsored a project to investigate the present and future of HCI education.
The EduCHI Symposia series has played a vital role in providing opportunities for educators to reflect on current and future HCI education trends and also offering a venue to share insights about successful HCI curricula, pedagogies, and teaching practices. We anticipate that the inclusion of EduCHI as a SIGCHI-sponsored conference will enable us to support the needs of a rapidly expanding HCI research, education, and practice community. In particular, EduCHI can aid in: 1) enabling and supporting learning about the vast range of disciplinary perspectives and knowledge that are already present in SIGCHI-sponsored activities; 2) serving as a critical and pedagogical lens through which to consider future knowledge-building, learning, and professional development practices in the field; and 3) ensuring the quality of the education of HCI scholars and practitioners.
EduCHI supports the development and publication of knowledge specific to the HCI community through three primary aims:
- HCI educational research
Reports of research studies conducted on HCI educational issues, leveraging a wide range of conceptual and theoretical frameworks from higher education studies, instructional design, computing education, and related fields. These research studies are published in the ACM Digital Library and connect educational and instructional theory with robust, rigorous accounts of HCI educational issues. - HCI educational materials, curricula, and accounts of teaching experiences
Reports of pedagogical techniques, open educational resources (OERs), emergent challenges, and course- and program-related resources that enable the worldwide HCI educational community to build on best practices in many types of HCI educational settings. These contributions are published in the ACM Digital Library and continue to build resources for a global “living curriculum” of HCI educational resources for adoption, improvement, and as a foundation for future pedagogical research. - HCI pedagogy training
Workshops and professional development sessions to share materials and expert perspectives on pressing HCI educational concerns, with a focus on developing the pedagogical abilities of late-stage PhD students and early-stage professors that have an interest in teaching university-level courses in HCI. These workshops include Masterclasses, which are held in online sessions between symposia with outcomes that are published in the ACM Digital Library, and the EduCHI Pedagogy Workshop, which is held in conjunction with the EduCHI symposium.
