Bio

Barbara Ericson is a senior research scientist and a part-time doctoral student in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has worked to increase the quantity and quality of secondary computing teachers and the quantity and diversity of computing students since 2004. She and her husband, Professor Mark Guzdial, were the winners of the 2010 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Computing Educator Award. Ericson was also the winner of the Richard A Newton Award in 2012. She is a co-author of four books on media computation. She is creating interactive eBooks to help high school teachers and students learn basic programming. She is researching Parsons problems (mixed up program code that must be placed into the correct order) as a type of low cognitive load practice problem to improve learning. Ericson holds two patents in case-based reasoning.