Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC'2012) aims at creating a platform for researchers in the field of computer science education. Over the years it has become clear that there is a need for more fundamental knowledge about and input into computer science education. To contribute to this, last year CSERC'2011 has been organized in Heerlen, Netherlands, annex to a Dutch Conference for Computer Science Teachers, NIOC'11. Like CSERC’2011, CSERC'2012 is intended to be in cooperation with ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE, pending approval). This year CSERC will be hosted by FedCSIS 2012.

Themes of CSERC are:
 designing a Computer Science curriculum
 didactics and teaching methods for Computer Science subjects
 development of professional competencies in Computer Science
 tools and instruments supporting Computer Science Education
 field studies in Computer Science Education
 cultural and regional differences in Computer Science Education
 convergence and divergence in Computer Science bachelor and master Education
 vocational and professional Computer Science Education

Paper Submission and Publication
 Authors should submit draft papers (as LateX, PDF or MSWord file). Style templates are available at http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions .
 The total length of a draft paper should not exceed 8 pages.
 Submitted draft papers will be refereed on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.
 Accepted draft papers will be published as "Preprints of the Computer Science Education Research Conference." They will be made available to the FedCSIS participants, but will not be included in the IEEE DL.
 Authors of accepted papers will be invited to produce an extended paper (between 8 and 12 pages), which takes into account the discussions that were held during the conference. These extended papers will be published in the ACM Digital library (http://dl.acm.org/).
 Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.

Conference Chairs
 Gerrit C. van der Veer, Open University, The Netherlands
 Marcin Sikorski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Program Committee Chairs
 Peter Sloep, Open University, The Netherlands
 Marko Van Eekelen, Open University and Radboud University, The Netherlands

Event Chair
 Evert van de Vrie, Open University, The Netherlands

Program Committee
 Mordechai Ben Ari, Weizmann Institute, Israel
 Erik Barendsen, Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands
 Anders Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden
 Adriana Berlanga, Open University, The Netherlands
 Leszek Borzemski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
 Michael Caspersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
 Martyn Clark, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
 Nell Dale, University of Texas, United States of America
 Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
 Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 Sally Fincher, University of Kent , United Kingdom
 Adam Grzech, ICI Bucuresti, Romania
 Bastiaan Heeren, Open University, The Netherlands
 Andrew Luxton-Reilly, University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Jerzy Nawrocki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
 Arnold Pears, University of Uppsala, Sweden
 Francisco Penalvo, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
 Marian Petre, Open University, United Kingdom
 Vreda Pieterse, University of Pretoria, South Africa
 Costin Pribeanu, ICI Bucharest, Romania
 Wolfgang Reinhardt, Universität Paderborn, Germany
 Guido Roessling, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
 Pavel Slavík, Technical University Prague, Czech Republic
 Henry Walker, Grinnell College, United States of America
 Mary Webb, King's College London, United Kingdom
 Bogdan Wiszniedwski, Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland
 Bert Zwaneveld, Open University, The Netherlands