The Computational Thinking and Learning Initiative (CTLI)

Overview

 

Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA)

Computational thinking (CT) is the cornerstone of the modern Information Age: the capacity to frame, analyze, disaggregate and reconfigure problems to best leverage ever-expanding computational capability. Every field and K-16 subject area has different approaches and needs that define their disciplinary knowledge and practices, and thus computational thinking in each discipline is a hybrid creation, connecting general computational methods with specific disciplinary ways of thinking and inquiring in generative ways. This initiative will work to develop the institutional capacity necessary to foster innovative disciplinary computational thinking research and education across the university as well as in K-12 education. The group will participate in a strategic planning process to coordinate and enhance existing university resources and services designed to stimulate new collaborations and allow faculty to consider research questions from new perspectives.

Lead Faculty in bold

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

  • Gautam Biswas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering
  • Akos Ledeczi, Professor of Computer Engineering 
  • Gayathri Narasimham, Research Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE

PEABODY COLLEGE

  • Corey Brady, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
  • Noel Enyedy, Professor of Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
  • Heather Johnson, Associate Professor of the Practice of Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning

OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • David Owens, Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation

STAFF