GMU SPARC - News

Dr. Shvetha Soundararajan has joined the team and is teaching a SPARC section of CS 112.

Our paper, A Novel Self-Paced Model for Teaching Programming, will appear in the Fourth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S), Cambridge MA, USA, April 2017.

A Novel Self-Paced Model for Teaching Programming, Jeff Offutt, Paul Ammann, Kinga Dobolyi, Chris Kauffmann, Jaime Lester, Upsorn Praphamontripong, Huzefa Rangwala, Sanjeev Setia, Pearl Wang, and Liz White, Fourth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S), April 2017, Cambridge MA, USA.

Kinga Dobolyi to present a SPARC session at Mason's 2016 Innovative Teaching & Learning conference, Friday 16-September

Lead instructor and SPARC head chef will be leading a 90-minute interactive talk at ITL, Teaching a Creativity-Based Skill Through Self-Pacing. With help from other members of the team, she will interactively demonstrate how a SPARC class works.

Ben Noble, Jackie Roberts, and John Wong receive a 2016 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to Ben Noble, Jackie Roberts, and John Wong who will receive a 2016 Computer Science Department Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award. This honor acknowledges their commitment to providing students with meaningful, significant learning experiences, as well as their success in achieving this ambitious goal.

They were honored at the 2016 CS Graduating Celebration and Awards, on Wednesday, May 11th.

Professors Kinga Dobolyi and Mark Snyder Win George Mason Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to Professors Kinga Dobolyi and Mark Snyder who will receive a 2016 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award. This honor acknowledges their commitment to providing students with meaningful, significant learning experiences, as well as their success in achieving this ambitious goal.

They were honored at the 2016 Celebration of Teaching Excellence, Monday, April 11th.

Innovative Mason Teaching Model Wins Nearly $1M Google Award.