HCIL 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series: Mark Guzdial, Georgia Tech – Video

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HCIL 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series: Mark Guzdial, Georgia Tech
Professor Mark Guzdial, an award winning scholar and advocate in computer science education, spoke at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on February 19th as the 4th speaker in the HCIL 30th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer Series. To learn more about this lecture series or the HCIL (Human-Computer Interaction Lab) at UMD, please visit hcil.cs.umd.edu. Talk title "Making Online Education Work" Talk Abstract: In my research group, we have been exploring how to make online education effective for over 15 years. We have learned how contextualizing collaboration can lead to longer on-topic discussions, but how student perceptions can dramatically inhibit discussion. We have shown that well-designed online activities can lead to better learning at reduced cost (including time costs for the student and instructor). The student audience matters, as we learned when studying how graphics designers teach themselves programming using online resources. We are currently developing an ebook for high school teachers, who need to learn under tight time constraints. In working on our ebook, we have shown that explicit subgoal labels in videos leads to improved retention and transfer. Ellen #39;s Bio: Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on learning sciences and technology, specifically, computing education research. He has published several books on the use of media ...

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