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Dr. Seidman 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) was reprinted in the Classics of Education Series from Educator's International Press in 1997. His most recent book is Fluency with Alice.

Dr. Seidman is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Educational Computing Research widely regarded as the premier scholarly journal in the field. 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, the Southern New Hampshire University 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 its editorial board.

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.

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 Science and Technology Education
Multidisciplinary international journal for educator communities of science and technology. (Editorial Board)

Amoskeag: The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University
Interdisciplinary journal of arts and letters. (Editorial Board)

National Educational Computing Conference [ISTE] (Reviewer)

Three Year Degree Honors Program
First in the nation 3-year competency-based program in business administration.. (Steering Committee)

Current Vita

Faculty Profile (May 2003)

Recent Publications & Presentations

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 Baywood Publishing Company, New York.

"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 - Workbook for Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities. 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

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.

"Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System"
(with T. F. Green, senior author, and D. P. Ericson). Syracuse University Press and reprinted in 'Classics in Education' Series, NY: Educator's International Press, 1997. Reviewed by Manfred Stanley in Teachers College Record Volume 83 Number 3 p. 377-400

"National Education 'Goals 2000': Some Disastrous Unintended Consequences" Published in Education Policy Analysis Archives, Volume 4 Number 11, 1996.

Contact Information
Dr. Robert H. Seidman Southern New Hampshire University Information Technology Department 2500 N. River Rd. Manchester, NH 03106-1045 USA	Voice: 603-644-3167 FAX: 270-837-0245 Email: r.seidman@snhu.edu