Welcome

Innovation in CS, IS, and IT Education: Navigating the Next Frontier

SACLA 2025, the 54th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers’ Association will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science & Informatics of the University of the Free State. The conference, to be held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, at the beautiful Tuscan Rose from 30 July to 1 August 2025, will provide a forum for the discussion of original research and practical experiences in teaching and learning Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, and related disciplines. The conference programme will include research paper sessions, plenary keynote addresses, panels and workshops. We invite submissions of full papers, research-in-progress papers and panel proposals on topics from researchers and practitioners from any country.

SACLA

SACLA (the Southern African Computer Lecturers’ Association) is a formal association of academics, involved in education, lecturing and teaching of Computer Science (CS), Information Systems (IS) and related Information Technology (IT) subjects at universities and other Higher Education Institutions throughout Southern Africa. The main activity of SACLA is an annual conference, at which issues relating to CS, IS and IT education, teaching and research in Southern Africa are presented and discussed.

Publication Opportunities

The papers presented at the annual conference are published in accredited conference proceedings and since 2016, selected papers have been published in an accredited journal publication. Each year the SACLA program committee is committed to keeping the standard of papers earmarked for Journal publication on a very high standard, to ensure that we can continue to publish selected papers in the accredited journal.

Important Dates

Call for papers: 7 October 2024
Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2025
Notification of acceptance: 6 May 2025
Camera-ready submission: 20 May 2025
Registration: 6 May – 31 May 2025
Conference dates: 30 July – 1 Aug 2025