Mark Guzdial

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Mark Guzdial
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Mark Joseph Guzdial

(1962-09-07) September 7, 1962 (age 62)
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
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Thesis Emile: Software-Realized Scaffolding for Science Learners Programming Multiple Media  (1993)
Doctoral advisor Elliot Soloway [3]
Website https://guzdial.engin.umich.edu/

Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. [4] He was formerly a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the College of Computing and the GVU Center. He has conducted research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences and internationally in the field of Information Technology. 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. [5] He is the inventor[ citation needed ] of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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Education

Mark Guzdial was born in Michigan and attended Wayne State University for his undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1984. He received a master's degree in 1986 in Computer Science and Engineering at Wayne State University. Guzdial went on to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1993 in Computer Science and Education where he was advised by Elliot Soloway. His thesis created an environment for high school science learners to program multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. [1] After graduating from the University of Michigan, Guzdial accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing. In 2018, he became a full professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Research and teaching

Guzdial's research projects include Media Computation, an approach that emphasizes context in computer science education, using programming languages, lectures examples, and programming assignments from those contexts that students recognize as being authentic and relevant for computing. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Guzdial's Media Computation curriculum is being used at universities across the country.[ citation needed ] He received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2006 to pursue his “Using Media Computation to Attract and Retain Students in Computing” curriculum. [21]

Guzdial was Director of Undergraduate Programs at Georgia Tech (including the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational Media, and Minor in Computer Science) until 2007. He was Lead Principal Investigator on Georgia Computes, a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing alliance focused on increasing the number and diversity of computing students in the state of Georgia. [22]

Publications

His publications include:

Awards and honors

In 2010, Guzdial was awarded the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award "for [his] contributions to computing education, through the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach that they have created, supported, and disseminated, and its impact on broadening participation in computing." [23] In 2012, he received the IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award "for outstanding and sustained excellence in computing education through innovative teaching, mentoring, inventive course development, and knowledge dissemination." [24] In 2014, Guzdial was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to computing education, and broadening participation." [25] In 2019, Guzdial was awarded the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education at the 50th SIGCSE Technical Symposium "in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education". [26]

Personal life

Guzdial was married to Barbara Ericson in July 1985. They have three children, Matthew, Katherine, and Jennifer.

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References

  1. 1 2 Guzdial, Mark (1993). Emile: Software-Realized Scaffolding for Science Learners Programming Multiple Media (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. ProQuest   304076207.
  2. 1 2 Mark Guzdial publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ↑ Mark Guzdial at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "EECS Faculty". www.eecs.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  5. ↑ Leuf, Bo; Cunningham, Ward (2001). The Wiki Way . Addison-Wesley. ISBN   9780201714999.
  6. ↑ Denning, Peter (2014). "Interview with Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology". Ubiquity. 2014 (January): 1–7. doi: 10.1145/2576891.2576892 .
  7. ↑ Denning, Peter (2011). "An Interview with Mark Guzdial". Ubiquity. 2011 (January): 3. doi: 10.1145/1922681.1925843 .
  8. ↑ Mark Guzdial author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  9. ↑ Mark Guzdial's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Mark Guzdial at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  11. ↑ Garcia, Daniel D.; Barr, Valerie; Guzdial, Mark; Malan, David J. (2013). "Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe". SIGCSE '13 Proceedings of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education. p. 379. doi:10.1145/2445196.2445308. ISBN   9781450318686. S2CID   52818605.
  12. ↑ Ericson, Barbara; Guzdial, Mark; Biggers, Maureen (2007). "Improving secondary CS education". Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. pp. 298–301. doi:10.1145/1227310.1227416. ISBN   978-1595933614. S2CID   9067261.
  13. ↑ Guzdial, Mark; Tew, Allison Elliott (2006). "Imagineering inauthentic legitimate peripheral participation". Proceedings of the second international workshop on Computing education research. pp. 51–58. doi:10.1145/1151588.1151597. ISBN   978-1595934949. S2CID   493949.
  14. ↑ Furst, Merrick; Isbell, Charles; Guzdial, Mark (2007). "Threads™: how to restructure a computer science curriculum for a flat world". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 39 (1): 420–424. doi:10.1145/1227504.1227456.
  15. ↑ Ranum, David; Miller, Bradley; Marvin, John; Guzdial, Mark (2006). "Successful approaches to teaching introductory computer science courses with python". Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. pp. 396–397. doi:10.1145/1121341.1121465. ISBN   978-1595932594. S2CID   9062542.
  16. ↑ Forte, Andrea; Guzdial, Mark (2005). "Motivation and Nonmajors in Computer Science: Identifying Discrete Audiences for Introductory Courses". IEEE Transactions on Education. 48 (2): 248–253. Bibcode:2005ITEdu..48..248F. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.167.6010 . doi:10.1109/TE.2004.842924. S2CID   109517.
  17. ↑ Guzdial, Mark; Ericson, Barbara (2006). Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach. Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN   978-0-13-149698-9.
  18. ↑ Guzdial, Mark; Ericson, Barbara (2004). Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach. Pearson. ISBN   978-0-13-402554-4.
  19. ↑ Guzdial, Mark; Rose, Kim (2002). Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia. Prentice Hall. ISBN   978-0-13-028091-6.
  20. ↑ Guzdial, Mark (2000). Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications. Prentice Hall. ISBN   978-0-13-028028-2.
  21. ↑ Media Computation To Attract & Retain Students — College of Computing Archived February 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  22. ↑ Welcome to "Georgia Computes!" — Georgia Computes! Archived September 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ↑ Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award 2010
  24. ↑ "Mark Guzdial Honored with 2012 CS and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award". IEEE Computer Society. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  25. ↑ ACM Fellows 2014
  26. ↑ "2019 SIGCSE Awards" . Retrieved December 21, 2018.
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