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David Garvin Moursund (November 3, 1936 –) is an American educator and teacher of teachers. He has written and taught extensively in the areas of computers, math, and brain science in education.

After completing his doctorate in Mathematics (Numerical Analysis, January, 1963) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his professional career included teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, and the University of Oregon. He is major professor or co-major professor of six doctoral students in mathematics and 76 doctoral students in education.

In 1974, while teaching at the University of Oregon, David Moursund establish The Oregon Computing Teacher publication. In 1979 the publication's was renamed The Computing Teacher when it became the flagship publication of the International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE) which he founded in 1979. In 1989 ICCE changed its name to International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and in 1990 The Computing Teacher was renamed Learning and Leading with Technology. David Moursund led ICCE/ISTE and served as Editor-in-chief of its publications for its first 19 years. In 2007 David Moursund established Information Age Education (IAE), a non-profit company in the State of Oregon that has a mission of helping to improve education at all levels and throughout the world. IAE provides free access to a wide range of educational materials including books, a bi-weekly newsletter, a “wiki” and other Websites, and a blog.



Education
Ph.D. (Mathematics, specializing in Numerical Analysis), University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1963.

M.S. (Mathematics), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1960.

B.A. (Mathematics; minor in Physics), University of Oregon, 1958.

Graduated from Eugene High School, 1954. (First two years of high school were at University High School, which was located on the University of Oregon campus.)

Graduated from Roosevelt Junior High School, Eugene, Oregon, 1951.

Graduated from Condon Elementary School, Eugene, Oregon, 1948.

Professional Career
Emeritus Professor, University of Oregon, 2005 to present.

Professor of Education, University of Oregon, 1982-2005.

Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, 1976-1986.

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon, 1969-1976.

Head, Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon, 1969-1975.

Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Office, International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE), 1979-1989. In 1989, the name of this organization was changed to International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

Editor-in-Chief and Executive Office, ISTE, 1989-1998.

Editor-in Chief and Executive Officer for Research and Development, ISTE, 1 July 1998 to 31 March 2001. Retired from ISTE 31 March 2001.

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, 1967-1969.

Assistant Professor (1963-66), Associate Professor (1966-1967), Department of Mathematics and College of Engineering (Computer Center), Michigan State University.

Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1963 to June 1963.

Graduate Program and Doctoral Students
In 1970, while he was Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon, David Moursund established a Master's degree program in Computers in Education. This may have been the second such program the U.S., preceded only by the program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This program of study required 30 quarters of coursework in the Computer Science Department and 15 quarter hours of coursework in the College of Education. Substantial funding through National Science Foundation teacher training programs supported many students who completed this degree program and/or who took some of the Computer Science coursework available in this program of study.

In 1971 David Moursund and Keith Acheson (a faculty member in the University of Oregon's College of Education) established a College of Education doctoral program in the field of Computers in Education. This may have been the first such program in the United States. A large number of students completed this doctoral program. David Moursund was the major professor or co-major professor of 76 of these students who graduated between 1975 and 2005. See Mathematics Genealogy Project for a list of his doctoral students.

International Society for Technology in Education
In 1979 David Moursund founded the International Council for Computers in Education. This 501(c)(3) professional society was renamed International Society for Technology in Education in 1989. More information is available at ISTE's Home Page and in the Wikipedia entry about ISTE.

By 1979 the field of computers in education was well established. The first (United States) National Educational Computer Conference (NECC) was held in Iowa. However, this conference was the outgrowth of the Conference of Computers in the Undergraduate Curriculum (CCUC) that had been funded by the National Science Foundation for ten years (CCUC, 2010). CCUC focused mainly on computer uses in higher education.

David Moursund made a decision that the newly-established International Council for Computers in Education would hold its annual meetings at NECC and place major emphasis on expanding that conference to better serve the needs of people interested in precollege educational uses of computers.

Over a period of many years, ICCE/ISTE became more and more involved with NECC. The NECC Board gradually changed so that a majority of its members were deeply involved in teacher education and in uses of computers at the precollege level. Eventually NECC ownership was given to ISTE.

Anita Best has been co-program chair or on the program committee for a great many of the National Educational Computer Conferences. An interview with Anita Best reveals some of the early history of ISTE's involvement with the National Educational Computer Conference (NECC).

NECC (1999) lists NECC pioneers and NECC leaders who were honored at the 20th annual NECC. David Moursund was honored both as a NECC pioneer and as a NECC leader.

Information Age Education Non-profit Company
In the United States, the Information Age officially began in 1956 (Naisbitt, 1982). In that year, the U. S. first had more "white collar" workers than "blue collar" workers.

David Moursund established the Oregon non-profit company Information Age Education (ICT) in 2007. This was shortly after he became fully retired from the University of Oregon.

ICT's goal is to help improve education at all levels throughout the world.Some components of IAE’s underlying ideas and philosophy are:


 * Humans face very challenging problems, individually and collectively. The most important problems concern preserving and improving the sustainability and quality of life on our planet Earth.
 * The intact human brain is naturally curious, is always involved in processing data, and is a lifelong learner. All people know how to learn and get better at learning through practice and through informal and formal education. All people, intentionally or not, teach themselves and others. All our lives, we learn and we teach.
 * The Information Age is bringing us powerful aids to learning and to communicating and processing information. It is also bringing us a very rapid increase in the totality of information that one might want to learn and use. We each face an information overload and an environment of rapid change.

The Information Age Education company provides a wide range of free education materials written by David Moursund and other volunteers. These include:


 * Free books published by IAE.


 * Free bi-weekly IAE Newsletter.


 * IAE Blog.


 * Free IAE Wiki. List of pages ordered by popularity.


 * Other Free IAE documents. A "miscellaneous" collection of materials. This includes 137 Editor's Messages written by David Moursund while he was Editor-in-Chief of the ISTE publications.

Author or Co-Author of Many Books
David Moursund in author of co-author of more than 60 books. About 35 of these books are now available (free) online. His early books were textbooks in areas such as Numerical Analysis, computer programming, calculators, and computer literacy. Most of his more recent books were written to use in preservice and inservice teacher education.

Nine of David Moursund's books were co-authored with his wife Sharon K Yoder.

Here is information about some of David Moursund's early books:


 * Moursund, David and Charles Duris (1967). Elementary theory and application of numerical analysis. NY: McGraw-Hill. (Also published in Japanese.) Reprinted by Dover Publications in 1988. A version of the book prepared by James E. Miller has the FORTRAN programs replaced by C++ programs and was published in 2012. The book can be purchased at http://store.doverpublications.com/0486479064.html.


 * Moursund, David (1969). How computers do it. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. (Also published in Spanish.)


 * Moursund, David (1970). Problem analysis and solution using FORTRAN IV. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.


 * Moursund, David (1978). BASIC programming for computer literacy. NY: McGraw-Hill.


 * Moursund, David and Karen Billings (1979). Are you computer literate? Beaverton, OR: dilithium Press. (Also published in Spanish.)


 * Moursund, David and Karen Billings (1979). Problem solving with calculators. Beaverton, OR: dilithium Press.

Here is information about five of David Moursund's more recent books:


 * Moursund, David (2004, 2012). Using brain/mind science and computers to improve elementary school math education. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF document from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/232-improving-elementary-school-math-education-some-roles-of-brainmind-science-and-computers.html.


 * Moursund, David (March, 2012). Good math lesson planning and implementation. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/230-good-math-lesson-plans.html.


 * Moursund, David and Robert Albrecht (September, 2011). Becoming a better math tutor. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/208-becoming-a-better-math-tutor.html.


 * Moursund, David and Robert Albrecht(2011). Using math games and word problems to increase math maturity. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/211-using-math-games-and-word-problems-to-increase-the-math-maturity-of-k-8-students.html.


 * Moursund, David (March, 2011). Play together, learn together: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF document from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/212-play-together-learn-together-stem.html.