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Educators Forum at BPM 2025: Call for papers
Seville, Spain
https://www.bpm2025seville.org/calls/educators-forum/
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== Important Dates ==

- Paper submission: 22 May 2025
- Notification: 23 June 2025
- Camera-ready: 30 June 2025

Deadlines correspond to Anywhere on Earth (AoE or UTC-12).

== The Forum ==

Business Process Management (BPM) has become part of the curricula across a number of primary, secondary, professional, online, and in-company education programs.

The Educators Forum seeks to bring together educators within the BPM community for sharing resources for improving the practice of teaching BPM-related topics by exchanging experiences, bringing in cases, and discussing teaching innovations.

In this way, the Educators Forum also highlights the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as part of the BPM teaching practice in regard to the systematic inquiry about student learning, the habits and skills of scholars to work as teachers, and the support for young lecturers to obtain their qualifications.

== Forum Topics ==

The Educators Forum aims to be the meeting point for sharing and improving our BPM teaching in a dynamic way, far from more traditional research contributions. That is why we are open to all kinds of contributions, such as sharing new techniques, lessons learned, methodologies, case studies, systematic studies, empirical experiments, resources, materials, and tools. Contributions are welcome in the fields of teaching BPM contents, evaluating BPM contents, and the use of technology as a facilitator of BPM education.

The topics of interest for the Educators Forum include, but are not limited to:

- New active learning methodologies for teaching BPM
- Design and implementation of new resources for teaching BPM
- Novel assessment instruments for BPM contents
- Feedback approaches tailored for BPM courses
- Teaching procedural thinking
- Systematic studies of BPM in different education dimensions
- Best practices and lessons learned for teaching BPM
- New resources and smart learning environments for BPM contents
- BPM instructor professionalization and certification
- Teaching BPM for underrepresented groups, including students with disabilities
- Integrating indigenous perspectives into BPM teaching practices
- Integrating sustainability and circularity in BPM teaching
- Success case studies and application of BPM teaching practices
- Integrating generative AI and other innovative digital tools into BPM teaching
- Incorporating Ethics into BPM Content: Challenges, Approaches, and Educational Resources
- WACI (Wild And Crazy Ideas) for BPM teaching

== Contribution Types ==

Contributions are classified in 6 types as below. Please see the information on the bottom of the page for the details.

- BPM Education Research
- BPM Teaching Cases
- Educational Practice Insights
- Tools/Resources Contribution
- Assignment Contribution
- Lightning Contribution

Best papers of type research contribution will be invited to a fast-track publication in Process Science Journal. The invited papers and the conditions will be communicated to the authors after the paper presentation at the BPM conference.

High-quality papers, including but not limited to teaching case contributions, will have the opportunity for expedited publication in CAIS. Recommended papers and the associated conditions will be communicated to the authors after their presentation at the BPM conference.

== Important Information for Submissions ==

- We welcome original submissions in English from research and practice in one of the indicated contribution types.
- Contributions of all categories must follow the Springer LNBIP format as provided in the BPM conference website. Papers should be between 6-15 pages, including all materials and bibliography.
- Each contribution should clarify the relation of the paper with the main topics of the forum and also clearly state the problem or issue being addressed, the goal of the contribution, the results achieved (if obtained), and clearly state the impact and benefits for the BPM educators community.
- Submissions must be original research contributions that have neither been published previously nor submitted to other conferences, workshops, or journals.
- Please use EasyChair link of the BPM conference submissions and select the “BPM 2025 Educators Forum” during submission. Please indicate the contribution type during paper submission on EasyChair.
- Each submission will be reviewed by a minimum of 2 PC members, and rich feedback will be provided.
- The paper selection will be based on the relevance of a paper to the main topics listed above, alignment to the type of the contribution indicated based on the criteria described for each contribution type, and its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion.
- For a paper to appear in the post-proceedings, at least one author has to register and present the paper during the workshop.
- All workshop papers (with a length of minimum 6 pages) will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). These proceedings will be made available to all registered participants approximately four months after the workshops, while preliminary proceedings will be distributed during the workshop.
- All registration procedures and logistics information are managed directly by BPM conference.

== Educators Forum Chairs ==

Banu Aysolmaz (Eindhoven university of technology)
Wasana Bandara (Queensland University of Technology)
Kate Revoredo (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)