Mark Guzdial: 21st Century Literacy includes Computing for Everyone

Computing Education Research is about how people come to understand computing, and how people like Professor Mark Guzdial can facilitate that understanding.  He is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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ABOUT Mark Guzdial

“Mark Guzdial was also the Director of Undergraduate Programmes (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 is best known for his research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences. From 2001-2003, he was selected to be an ACM Distinguished Lecturer and in 2007 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), one of the earliest wiki engines, which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998.

He was vice-chair of the ACM Education Board, and still serves on that Board, as well as on the ACM SIGCSE Board. Professor Guzdial serves on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Computing Education and Journal of the Learning Sciences.”

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