Mark Guzdial

Mark Guzdial
Born	Mark Joseph Guzdial (1962-09-07) September 7, 1962 (age 54) Detroit, Michigan, USA
Residence	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Computer science education Learning sciences Learning technologies Computer-supported collaborative learning
Institutions	Georgia Tech GVU Center
Alma mater	University of Michigan Wayne State University
Thesis	Emile: Software-Realized Scaffolding for Science Learners Programming Multiple Media (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Elliot Soloway
Known for	Emile Media Computation
Notable awards	ACM Fellow (2014) ACM Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council
Website http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial

Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is 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 is best known for his 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 ), one of the earliest , which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998. He is the inventor of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.

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. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Guzdial accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.

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