Roger B. Blumberg Roger B. Blumberg
I am currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department, working on a Computers and Society textbook during the 2008-2009 academic year. From 1998-2006, I was a faculty member in the Department, teaching The Educational Software Seminar (CS092) as well as the First-Year Seminar, Computers and Human Values (CS009). Since 1999, I also have been a member of the History, Philosophy and Social Science (HPSS) faculty at The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where I teach Science and Society in 20th Century America, Technology and Contemporary Life, and Computing and Its Consequences.
Before coming to the Computer Science Department, I was a Visiting Scholar at Brown's Institute for Brain and Neural Systems (IBNS), working on the analysis and implementation of biologically-inspired learning algorithms; and then Senior Hypermedia Researcher at Brown's Scholarly Technology Group. At STG I worked on a variety of educational technology projects, and hosted the 1996 Conference on Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology, as part of Brown's participation in the US Department of Education's RTEC for the Northeast, NetTech.
I'm a graduate of Columbia College, where I majored in English and Comparative Literature, and was a high school English teacher in New York City before accepting a full-time Associate in Science position at Columbia in 1986. At Columbia, I taught the general education science course, Theory and Practice of Science, from 1984-1989, as well as a core curriculum Humanities course for first-year students, and a science theory course for the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at Columbia. In addition to my teaching undergraduates at Columbia, Eugene Lang College, Brown and RISD, I authored and taught (for 15 consecutive summers) a mathematics course, in the Columbia Summer Program for High School Students. In the summer 2002 I took a year off from the High School Program and instead taught a summer version of the math/biology semester of Theory and Practice of Science.
In addition my university work, I'm the founder of Mendele Education, LLC, a company specializing in program evaluation for computer science education and educational technology projects. Finally, I am the creator of MendelWeb, a 7th edition of which will appear in 2007.
Recent Publications About Computers and Education
"Teaching, Information, and Restraint," The Teaching Exchange (Brown University), January 2003.
"Resources, Constraints and the CMS," The Teaching Exchange (Brown University), September 2002.
"To Use or Not to Use?: Is That the Question?", The Teaching Exchange (Brown University), January 2002.
"Lessons from Consumerism: A Note for Faculty Thinking About Technology," The Teaching Exchange (Brown University), January 2000.
"Electronic Documentation and the Scholarship of Teaching: Lessons from CS92," The Teaching Exchange (Brown University), September 1998.
