Mark Guzdial

Registered user since Thu 11 Jun 2020

Name:Mark Guzdial
Bio:

Mark Guzdial is a Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan. He studies how people come to understand computing and how to make that more effective. He was one of the founders of the International Computing Education Research conference. He was one of the leads on the NSF alliance “Expanding Computing Education Pathways" which helped US states improve and broaden their computing education. He invented and has written several books on the “Media Computation” contextualized approach to computing education. With his wife and colleague, Barbara Ericson, he received the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award.  He is an ACM Distinguished Educator and a Fellow of the ACM. His most recent book is Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone (Morgan & Claypool, 2015). He received the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contributions to Education award.

Country:United States
Affiliation:University of Michigan
Research interests:computing education research, task-specific programming languages, participatory design

Contributions

ICER 2023 Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
ICER 2022 Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Boxer Salon 2022 Author of Creating New Programming Experiences Inspired by Boxer for Developing Computationally Literate Society within the Boxer Salon 2022-track
MODELS 2021 Author of Programming as a tool for learning everything within the Educators Symposium-track
VL/HCC 2021 Keynote Speaker of Changing Computing To Make It "For All" within the Keynotes-track
ICER 2021 Session Chair of Interest (part of Research Papers)
Author of Uses, Revisions, and the Future of Validated Assessments in Computing Education: A Case Study of the FCS1 and SCS1 within the Research Papers-track
Program Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
ICER 2020 Steering Committee Member in Steering Committee
Program Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track