{"50602":{"#nid":"50602","#data":{"type":"profile","title":"Mark Guzdial","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Guzdial is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mark is a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGVU Center\u003C\/a\u003E, the Cognitive Science program, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/edutech\/\u0022\u003EEduTech Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. He received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) at the University of Michigan in 1993, where he developed \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/edtech\/Emile.html\u0022\u003EEmile\u003C\/a\u003E, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wiki.squeak.org\/swiki\u0022\u003ESwiki\u003C\/a\u003E), which is now one of the most widely used Wiki engines in Universities around the world. He is the inventor of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coweb.cc.gatech.edu\/mediaComp-plan\u0022\u003EMedia Computation approach\u003C\/a\u003E to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students. Mark is the Director of the NSF-sponsored alliance to broaden participation in computing, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gacomputes.org\u0022\u003E\u0022Georgia Computes!\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-01-29 12:36:30","changed_gmt":"2014-12-16 08:21:05","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"hg_media":{"356751":{"id":"356751","type":"image","title":"Mark Guzdial compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245762","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:02","changed":"1475895089","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:29","alt":"Mark Guzdial compressed","file":{"fid":"201408","name":"mark-guzdial.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark-guzdial_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mark-guzdial_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11401,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mark-guzdial_0.jpg?itok=cb7i0KHR"}}},"media_ids":["356751"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[{"id":"8192","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"8154","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"8155","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"classification":["Faculty"],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":{"work":"4048945618"},"contact":[],"email":["mark.guzdial@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}