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Professor, University of Michigan
Professor, University of Michigan
Professor, University of Michigan
Professor, University of Michigan
Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Division and in Information at the University of Michigan. He is an ACM Fellow and part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Guzdial is a computing education researcher — he studies how people come to understand computing and how to make that more effective. He was PI for the NSF BPC Alliance “Georgia Computes!” (2006-2012 which improved the number and diversity of students in Georgia pursuing computing-intensive degrees. He was one of the PI’s on the NSF BPC alliance “Expanding Computing Education Pathways” (2012-2018) which helped 16 US states and Puerto Rico improve and broaden their computing education.
His research focuses on making computing accessible to people who fail to thrive in traditional CS education. He led the CSLearning4U project to create ebooks to help high school teachers and students learn CS. He invented “Media Computation” as an approach to learning computing focused on communication, and he has published several textbooks on the use of media as a context for learning computing.
His most recent research monograph is Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone (Morgan & Claypool, 2015). In Fall 2020, he was awarded an NSF CS for All grant to develop programming activities for middle and high school history classes. His blog on Computing Education Research has over 7000 followers.
He is on the editorial boards of the “Journal of the Learning Sciences,” “Computer Science Education,” “ACM Transactions on Computing Education,” and “Communications of the ACM.” With his wife and colleague, Barbara Ericson, he received the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award. He was also the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is an ACM Distinguished Educator. He was the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contributions to Education award.
Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Division and in Information at the University of Michigan. He is an ACM Fellow and part of the Center’s technical assistance capacity.
Guzdial is a computing education researcher — he studies how people come to understand computing and how to make that more effective. He was PI for the NSF BPC Alliance “Georgia Computes!” (2006-2012 which improved the number and diversity of students in Georgia pursuing computing-intensive degrees. He was one of the PI’s on the NSF BPC alliance “Expanding Computing Education Pathways” (2012-2018) which helped 16 US states and Puerto Rico improve and broaden their computing education.
His research focuses on making computing accessible to people who fail to thrive in traditional CS education. He led the CSLearning4U project to create ebooks to help high school teachers and students learn CS. He invented “Media Computation” as an approach to learning computing focused on communication, and he has published several textbooks on the use of media as a context for learning computing.
His most recent research monograph is Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: Research on Computing for Everyone (Morgan & Claypool, 2015). In Fall 2020, he was awarded an NSF CS for All grant to develop programming activities for middle and high school history classes. His blog on Computing Education Research has over 7000 followers.
He is on the editorial boards of the “Journal of the Learning Sciences,” “Computer Science Education,” “ACM Transactions on Computing Education,” and “Communications of the ACM.” With his wife and colleague, Barbara Ericson, he received the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award. He was also the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is an ACM Distinguished Educator. He was the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contributions to Education award.
