Rate My Professor Mark Guzdial

Mark Guzdial serves as Adjunct Faculty in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in education and computer science, a joint degree, from the University of Michigan in 1993, developing Emile, an environment for high school science learners to program multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. Joining Georgia Tech that year, he advanced to Professor in the College of Computing, affiliated with the GVU Center and EduTech Institute. He directed Undergraduate Programs, managing the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational Media, and Minor in Computer Science. Guzdial pioneered Media Computation, a contextualized approach to introductory computing using media manipulation, authoring textbooks including Introduction to Media Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook in Python (2003) and Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python with Barbara J. Ericson. His research at Georgia Tech focused on constructivist learning through artifact design and construction, collaborative environments like CoWeb and Squeakers, simulation tools for science education, and log file analysis for usability and learnability.