Mark Guzdial
Director of
Lead PI on Project
"Georgia Computes!", an NSF Broadening Participation in Computing
Alliance.
PI on :Expanding Computing Education
Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, an NSF Broadening Participation in Computing
Alliance.
PI on :CSLearning4U Project,
which aims to create computer science "ebooks" for teachers and students to use in
learning CS at a distance.
Useful Links
Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at
Georgia
Institute of Technology.
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 the ACM Education Council, 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 over 500 pageviews per day. He
and his wife were awarded the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding
Educator Award. He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society
Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2012. In 2014, he was named an ACM Distinguished
Educator and a Fellow of the ACM.
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.
Some 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.
- Overview of the
Contextualized Support for Learning Lab. This is the best place to find the
latest on all the projects I'm involved in.
- Media
Computation. The site for teachers is http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach.
Be sure to visit the Reports page on
MediaComp-teach to see the latest published papers from a variety of institutions on Media
Computation efforts.
- CSLearning4U.
We are creating a new distance-learning medium for computing
education especially for in-service high school teachers based on
ideas from instructional design and educational psychology. In-service
high school teachers are particularly time-constrained (and thus need
efficiency) and they are more metacognitively aware than other
students (and thus able to better inform the project design). The new
medium will combine multiple modalities, worked examples, and
structure based on cognitive models of designers' knowledge. The
research questions are that (1) the teachers will learn CS knowledge
in the on-line setting, (2) the teachers will be more efficient at
programming tasks, and (3) the teachers will find the materials useful
and satisfying. Because of its focus on teachers, the project can
potentially have broad impact, in particular on the strategies for
training the 10,000 teachers envisioned in the CS 10K Project. The
project will establish models and design guidelines that can be used
for the creation of other learning materials, including materials for
students in, for example, the proposed new CS Principles AP course.
- OLDER NOWCollaborative
Multimedia - The Squeakers: The Georgia Tech Squeakers are inspired by
Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg's vision of Personal Dynamic Media --
the computer as a meta-medium that supports composition of all other media
from text and graphics, to audio and animation, and beyond to
computational media. Our particular focus is on collaboration: Simplify
the sharing, composition, and distribution of metamedia across networks.
We use the programming language Squeak, hence, the group name. The Swiki or CoWeb which was
invented here is still available at http://wiki.squeak.org/swiki.
Contact information:
Mark Guzdial
School of Interactive Computing
College of Computing/GVU
85 5th Street NW
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0760
404-894-5618
E-mail :
guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
