Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:48:13 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 7955 Last-modified: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:12:32 GMT Mark Guzdial Information Page

Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

Mark Guzdial


Mark Guzdial is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed Emile, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He is also the designer of MediaText, a multimedia composition environment used in elementary and high school classrooms. Mark is a member of the GVU Center, the Cognitive Science program, and the EduTech Institute.

Mark recently co-organized a workshop with Rick Weingarten of Computing Research Association for the National Science Foundation. The charge of the workshop was to set a research agenda for Computer Science in Educational Technology. The draft report from that workshop is available on-line.

Current Areas of Interest

Educational computing, software-realized scaffolding, construction and design environments for students, constructionism, collaboration support, log file analysis and visualization, computational science (computer modeling, simulation, and visualization) for students

Mark Guzdial's current research centers on facilitating student learning through student design, construction, and analysis of artifacts. Philosophically, he is a constructivist, even a constructionist, but he sees a need for support to enable and facilitate a student's construction of artifacts and knowledge.

His goal is to provide to students similar kinds of opportunities that professional scientists and engineergs have for learning and exploring through computation. He has developed simulation environments for learning science through construction, and is now exploring visualization and collaboration environments to facilitate science and engineering learning. To evaluate the usability and learnability of the environments he creates, Mark is developing techniques for analysis of user event traces (log files).

Recent Classes with Interesting Home Pages

Current Research Projects

Research Projects from the University of Michigan

Working with Elliot Soloway and Elliot's Highly Interactive Computing Environments group, Mark was primarily involved in three projects at the University of Michigan.

Copies of recent AERA '95 papers are available in WWW formats.


Contact information:

Ma rk Guzdial
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
404-894-5618
E-mail :
guzdial@cc.gatech.edu

P.S.

My family album. (Updated October, 1996)