Mark Guzdial
Director of
Lead PI on Project
"Georgia Computes!", an NSF Broadening Participation in Computing
Alliance.
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Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at
Georgia
Institute of Technology. He was the Director of Undergraduate Programs
(including the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational
Media, and Minor in Computer Science) until October 2007.
Mark is a member of the GVU
Center.
He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science
(a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed
Emile,
an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia
demonstrations and physics simulations. He was the original developer
of the CoWeb (or Swiki), which
has been a widely used Wiki engine in Universities around the
world. He is the inventor of the Media Computation
approach to learning introductory computing, which uses
contextualized computing education to attract and retain
students. He was vice-chair of the ACM Education
Board, and still serves on that board, as well as on the ACM
SIGCSE Board. He serves on the editorial boards of ACM
Transacctions on Computing Education and Journal of the Learning
Sciences. His blog on
Computing Education is active, with 400-500 pageviews per day. He
and his wife were awarded the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding
Educator Award.
Areas of Interest
Computer science education, educational computing, software-realized scaffolding, collaborative
multimedia,
construction and design environments for
students, constructionism, collaboration support, log file analysis
and visualization, computational science (computer modeling,
simulation, and visualization) for students
Mark Guzdial's current research centers on facilitating student
learning through student design, construction, and analysis of
artifacts. Philosophically, he is a constructivist, even a
constructionist, but he sees a need for support to enable and
facilitate a student's construction of artifacts and knowledge.
One way of looking at what Mark is working on is collaborative
Dynabooks. He wants to
achieve the Dynabook vision (of Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, of
the Xerox PARC Learning Research Group in the 70's, and then the Disney
Imagineering Media Research Group, and now Viewpoints Research) of a learning machine for
developing computational media (where programming itself enables a new
kind of a
medium). He adds to that vision a desire for a
collaborative
environment where media can be easily created, shared, and distributed by
groups.
Current Research Projects
If you're a student and interested on working on a project with me,
please check out my
mini-projects list.
(Updated occasionally!) In general, you'll find my AniAniWeb (think "personal
Swiki") is more updated than this page.
Contact information:
Mark Guzdial
College of Computing/GVU
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
404-894-5618
E-mail :
guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
