CMSE Colloquium Speaker, Mark Guzdial (University of Michigan)

Release Date: Sep 7, 2023
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We're very excited to host Mark Guzdial for the first CMSE colloquium next Monday Sep 11. Mark will be available for meetings in the afternoon and I strongly encourage those with interests in computing education to book some time to meet with Mark using this Google doc.

CMSE Colloquium Speaker, Monday 2023-09-11

Mark Guzdial (University of Michigan)

Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science

3:30-4:30pm

CMSE conference room 1502

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. (See a TEDxGT talk on MediaComp.) 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 (see my keynote video here).