Modeling now plays an important role in software-intensive systems development and evolution. Modeling provides goal- oriented abstractions in all phases of the system lifecycle, which requires deep knowledge on modeling techniques and broad experiences in applying these techniques. The Educators' Symposium is organized annually in the framework of the international conference MODELS for discussing teaching these technologies to software engineers at universities and software industries. In this paper, we summarize the 8th edition of the Educators' Symposium: EduSymp 2012. First, we remind the general objectives and goals of the Symposium, and we describe the general organization of the 2012 edition (committees, program, statistics, and publication process). Then we introduce the papers selected by the program committee to be presented during the Symposium, and to be published into the proceedings. Finally, we provide a summary of presentations and discussions that occurred during the keynote as well as panel of EduSymp 2012.