Robert Seidman
HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Seidman is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Educational Computing Research widely regarded as a premier scholarly journal in the field and has been teaching at the college and university level since 1969.
He is the author of many journal articles, book chapters and a book that has been hailed as the first theory of the logic and behavior of national educational systems. Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System (with Thomas F. Green, senior author, and David P. Ericson; Syracuse University Press) was reprinted in the Classics of Education Series from Educator's International Press in 1997.
Dr. Seidman's latest Wiley/Jossey-Bass book is Saving Higher Education: The Integrated, Competency-Based Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program and he was the Southern New Hampshire University Faculty Scholar for the 2010-11 academic year.
He is a Fellow in the Philosophy of Education Society and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society, American Educational Research Association and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Seidman is a member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, was a founding member of the SNHU Three Year Degree Honors program steering committee, and was Computer Information Technology department chair from 1995 to 2003.
He is a founding board member of Amoskeag: The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University and continues to serve on the Editorial Board of its successor, Assignment. Dr. Seidman is Southern New Hampshire University Professor Emeritus.
EDUCATION
Syracuse University
Ph.D. Computer Science
"The Effects of Learning the LOGO Computer Programming Language on the Conditional Reasoning of School Children." 1980
M.S. Computer Science
"The Implementation of an Answer-Construction Question-Answering System." 1971
Rutgers University
B.S. Electrical Engineering. 1968
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
ACM & IEEE Computer Society
Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE/CS are two very active computer professional societies. Many important SIGS.
Philosophy of Education Society (Fellow)
Serves philosophers with an interest in educational matters. Publication, "Educational Theory," is affiliated with the John Dewey Society.
American Education Research Association
This professional research society has many very active special interest groups. Annual meeting is a showcase for the best research. Reviewer for Division C - Learning and Instruction and for Computer and Internet Application in Education - SIG.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Premier professional society in this field. Cutting-edge research.
Journal of Educational Technology Systems
Applications of technology that enable and improve learning. (Editorial Board)
Themes in e-Learning
(formerly Themes in Science & Technology Education)
Scholarship on the integration of e-learning in education at all levels. (Editorial Board)
Amoskeag: The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University. [Now Assignment] Interdisciplinary journal of arts and letters. (Editorial Board)
National Educational Computing Conference [ISTE] (Reviewer)
SNHU Three Year Degree Honors Program
First in the nation 3-year competency-based program in business administration.. (Steering Committee 1996-2014)
TEACHING, RESEARCH
& LEADERSHIP
Ph.D. & M.S.: School of Computer and Information Science, Syracuse University. Research areas: artificial intelligence, database query languages, developmental and cognitive psychology.
Research: Undergraduate and graduate computer curriculum innovation and reform; competency-based higher education policy analysis; teaching computer programming; computer simulation and modeling; artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic; systemic analysis of national educational systems; logical structures of reasoning; cognitive effects of computer programming.
Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate computer simulation and modeling; computer programming; systems analysis and design; artificial intelligence and expert systems; computer-based educational technologies; eCommerce; big data analytics.
Publications: Books, chapters, instructional computer guides, conference papers, foundation and government grants. Executive Editor - Journal of Educational Computing Research. Co-author: Saving Higher Education: The Integrated, Competency-Based Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program; Fluency with Alice; Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System.
Administrative: Chair – Graduate and Undergraduate Department of Computer Information Technology (1997-2003); Coordinator - Undergraduate Department of Computer Information Technology (2013-2014); Team Lead - SNHU College of Online and Continuing Education/STEM (present).
Professor (1981-2014): Southern New Hampshire University. Undergraduate courses in information technology, eCommerce, artificial intelligence, systems analysis and design, introduction to information technology, and big data analytics in the Three-Year Degree Honors program.
Guest lecturer on artificial intelligence in undergraduate Honors courses. Graduate courses in information technology, artificial intelligence, simulation and modeling, expert systems, and in quantitative analysis.
Leadership in undergraduate and graduate curriculum innovation, reform and development. Department Chair 1997-2003 & Department Coordinator 2013-2014. University Faculty Scholar 2010-2011. Team Lead - SNHU College of Online and Continuing Education/STEM (present).
Assistant Professor (1978-81): Department of Technology and Society, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Assistant Professor (1973-75): Department of Computer Science, State University of New York College at Oswego.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
(partial)
Journal of Educational Computing Research (Executive Editor) International scholarly research journal published 8 times each year in two volumes. Serves the educational computing research community and informs practitioners, worldwide. Published by SAGE.
Tribute to Seymour Papert (1928-2016). Journal of Educational Computing Research. Vol. 55(4). pp. 447-448. June, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633117710860
Education Rethink: Follow the Leaders. Panel member at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario "Transitions Conference." Toronto. March 23-24, 2016
"Degree-in-Three Programs Built on Competency and Assessment." it'snotacademic. Blog of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. January 2016.
Computers in Education: The good, the bad and the ugly. Friends of the Rye NH Public Library. 2015.
Innovation: Faculty Style. Western Academic Leadership Forum Annual Meeting 2014 (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Saving Higher Education: The Integrated, Competency-Based Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program. Bradley, Seidman, Painchaud. Jossey-Bass/Wiley. 2012
Disruptive Innovation: Current Trends & Future Directions. EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado.
"Three-Year Degrees & the Liberal Arts: Quality Assurance." Association of American Colleges & Universities Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. January 2012. With Painchaud and Bradley.
'A resounding Yes' to the degree in three. Washington Post. July 22, 2011
Should colleges offer three-year bachelor's degrees? Yes - Their time has come. On Campus. American Federation of Teachers. September/October 2010. Pg. 3.
Alice First: 3D Interactive Game Programming. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM-SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation & Technology in Computer Science Education. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris). July 2009.
Fluency with Alice - Supplement for Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities. 123 pages. Robert Seidman, Phil Funk, Jim Isaak, Lundy Lewis. Boston: Pearson/Addison-Wesley. 2009.
Highly Successful 3-Year Degree Program Graduates 10th Class in May 2009. Tomorrow's Professor Blog & Listserv. Stanford University Center for Teaching & Learning. Posting #947. May 2009.
Danforth Association of New England Learning Communities conference. October 2006. Invited speaker: "A New Paradigm Learning Community for Students and Faculty: Southern New Hampshire University Three Year Honors Program."
"Fuzzy Logic & Fuzzy Reasoning: What-if-not Aristotle's Law of the Excluded Middle?" in Copes, L. & Rosamond, F. A. (2006). Educational Transformations: The Influences of Stephen I. Brown. Bloomington: Institute for Studies in Educational Mathematics - AuthorHouse.
"A Collaborative & Competency-based Three-Year Bachelor's Degree: Empirical Results" (co-authored with Martin J. Bradley) American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans, April 2002. (ERIC ED 481060)
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth Keynote Address - Awards Ceremony May 5, 2002
"Beyond Computers: The Integration of Computing & Information Technology into the School Curriculum" Keynote address to the 16th Annual Computer Conference, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, February 4-7, 2001.
"Re-engineering Four Years of College into Three: The Makings of a Competency-based Three Year Bachelor's Degree" American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting; April 1998, San Diego. (ERIC ED 421901)
Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System
(with T. F. Green, senior author, and D. P. Ericson). Syracuse University Press (1980) and reprinted in 'Classics in Education' Series, NY: Educator's International Press, 1997.
Extended Review by Margaret Archer in the British Journal of Sociology of Education Vol. 2, No. 2 (1981). Reviewed by Manfred Stanley in Teachers College Record Vol. 83, No. 3 (1982), pp. 377-400.
"National Education 'Goals 2000': Some Disastrous Unintended Consequences." [Download] Published in Education Policy Analysis Archives, Volume 4 Number 11, 1996. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/634.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v4n11.1996
Knowledge Intensive Programming: A New Educational Computing Environment. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 18(3), 207-214. 1990. https://doi.org/10.2190/KBRD-79M4-1C7B-DV6A
Abstract: A recent knowledge intensive computational environment (logic programming) and computer programming language paradigm (Prolog) is explored as an alternative to traditional educational computing procedural programming environments and languages
Computer Programming and Logical Reasoning: Unintended Cognitive Effects, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 18(2), 123–141. 1989. https://doi.org/10.2190/MYUY-G56T-226T-PVT0
Abstract: Recent research results having to do with explicit instruction in computer programming and cognitive skills indicate an increased emphasis upon the structure of the learning environment surrounding programming languages. A new research direction concerned with transfer effects due to environmental aspects of programming instruction is emerging. A conceptual analysis of the syntax and semantics of the IF-THEN [ELSE] conditional command is presented which suggests that mastering a procedural language itself (independent of environment) might have unintended, indirect, and potentially negative effects upon fundamental intellectual skills. Research is reported which suggests that there are unintended side-effects upon childrens' conditional reasoning ability due to learning a procedural computer programming language.
"New Directions in Educational Computing Research." Chapter in Teaching and Learning Computer Programming: Multiple Research Perspectives. ed. Richard E. Mayer. NJ: Erlbaum. 1988.
"Transductive reasoning and the teaching of conditional logic to children." New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business Occasional Paper Series. 1986. http://academicarchive.snhu.edu/handle/10474/3097
"Deductive necessity and the logical structures of reasoning: Piaget's psycho-logic models." New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business Occasional Paper Series. 1986.
http://academicarchive.snhu.edu/handle/10474/3096
"The Logic and Behavioural Principles of Educational Systems: Social Independence or Dependence?" in Archer, M.S. (editor). 1982. The Sociology of Educational Expansion: Take-off, Growth and Inflation in Educational Systems. Beverly Hills: SAGE.
Book Review of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, by Seymour Papert. NY: Basic Books, 1980. In Journal of Educational Technology Systems. 10(2). 1981. pp. 199-202
Keynote Paper. International Sociological Association - Sociology of Education Conference on The Origins and Operations of Educational Systems. "The Logic and Behavioral Principles of Educational Systems: Social Independence or Dependence?" UNESCO Headquarters. Paris, France. August 8, 1980.
"Electronic Funds Transfer". Chapter in STIM: Socio-Technological Instructional Modules Vol. II. Ginn: Lexington, MA. pp. 51-101. 1980.
"Electronic Funds Transfer". Chapter in STIM: Socio-Technological Instructional Modules Instructor's Guides for Volumes I-IV. Ginn: Lexington, MA. pp. 277-314. 1980.
“Compulsory Schooling Without Compulsory Attendance Laws:
Reflections on the Behavior of Educational Systems.” In G.
Fenstermacher (Ed.), Philosophy of Education Meeting 1978, Normal, Ill. Philosophy of Education Society, 1979 (with David P. Ericson).
"Lifelong Learning and the Educational System: Expansion or Reform?" Report to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Task-Force on Lifelong Learning. 1972. Green, T.F., Ericson, D.P. & Seidman, R.H.
"The New Demonology2". RUR: Jrnl of Cybernation & Public Affairs. Number Three, Spring 1972. pp. 4-9, & pg. 20. [Quarterly by the Potomac Chapter of the Association of Computer Programmers & Analysts, and by the Mensa Special Interest Group on Social Implications of Computers & Automation]
"The Logo turtle-maze." University of Edinburgh. 1972. http://academicarchive.snhu.edu/handle/10474/3095