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Christine Liebe

Faculty 

Professor of Practice, Director of Teach@Mines
Department of Computer Science, University Honors and Scholars Programs

 

About

Christine Liebe has a joint appointment with the Computer Science department and the Honors College and is the Director of Teach@Mines, a pre-service teacher education program offering mathematics, science, and computer science licensure through undergraduate minor and Masters in STEM Education degrees. She teaches introductory programming, CS pre-service teacher courses, and supervises graduate students conducting CS Education research as well as CS student teachers. She is involved in several interdisciplinary research projects combining education and STEM topics (e.g., additive manufacturing, semiconductor engineering, AI education tools). Her research interests include, the instruction of abstraction, computational thinking, CS assessments, CS interdisciplinary connections, and the correlation between learning human and computer languages. Christine is a licensed K-12 teacher and manages the Discover Explore Create with Technology (DECtech) outreach program which serves ~500  K-12 students through after-school and summer camps. She enjoys hiking with her dog, planting trees, and gardening in her free time. 

Education

  • BA in Psychology / Urban Policy, James Madison College, Michigan State University, 1989
  • MS in Education, Literacy, Walden University, 2008
  • PhD in Education, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, Walden University, 2019

Courses

  • CSCI 128, Introduction to Computer Science for STEM (in person and online)
  • CSED 430/530 Computer Science Practices and Technological Impacts on Society
  • CSED 435/535 Computer Science Teaching Techniques
  • MS 700 Masters Non-thesis projects in Computer Science Education

ACTIVE / Pending Grants

NSF RET Site: #2206986 Interdisciplinary Additive Manufacturing Research Experiences for Teachers (IAM –RET) will provide high school teachers with the opportunity to learn 3D printing with metals, ceramics, and polymers, research techniques, and research instrumentation that they will apply with their students. $599K. Co-PI.

Teach@Mines Noyce Scholarship & Stipend Program: NSF – DUE, # 2243454, $1,200,000. PI.

Modern AI-Powered Robotics Research Experience for Teachers (MAR-RET) Site: NSF – RET, $600,000. Co-PI. 

Centering Educators in AI-Assisted Instructional Loops with a Customizable Platform for STEM Virtual Teaching Assistants. NSF – IUSE, $748,680. Co-PI. 

Empowering Western Region Alliance Teachers in Mathematics, Computational Thinking and Computer Science (WRAM & CS), NSF: STEM Teacher Corps: Collaborative proposal with CU Boulder, $385,000. PI. (pending)

Former Grants

Dept. of Defense CySP Scholarship Program. 2020-2021. $480,443. Co-PI.

Google Explore Compter Science Research. 2020, 2022. $59,000. Co-PI.

Xilinx Scholarships for Women in Computer Engineering. 2019 – 2021. $42,000.

Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon-based Transistors: Materials, Devices, Circuits, and Systems. NSF FuSE: Future of Semiconductors: # 2235143 multi-institution team-building grant, $50,000 at Colorado School of Mines, Senior Personnel.

Publications

Kelly, K., Wu, B., & Liebe, C. (2024, October). Gamification Powered by a Large Language Model to Enhance Flipped Classroom Learning in Undergraduate Computer Science. In European Conference on Games Based Learning (Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 939-946).

Christine Liebe, Deborah Kariuki, and Eryn Rachael Kelsey Adkins. 2023. Survey Says: CS Majors are Interested in K-12 Teaching Careers. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2023), March 15–18, 2023, Toronto, ON, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576346

Camp, T., Liebe, C. & Thiry, H. (2021, July), CS@Mines: PATH Ambassadors to High Success, A Successful S-STEM Scholarship Program Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2–36884

Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Thiry, H. (2021). CS@Mines Successful S-STEM Scholarship Ecosystem for Low-Income and Underrepresented Students. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432524

Waite, J., Liebe, C. (2021). Computer Science Student-Centered Instructional Continuum. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1/21/03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3439591

Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Thiry, H., (2021). Colorado Strategic Approach to Rally Teachers. In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education((SIGCSE ’21), March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1/21/03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3439636

Camp, T., Liebe, C., and Slattery, M. (2020). Applying NCWIT Protocol to Broaden Participation in Computing: A Case Study of CS@Mines. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 528–534. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366958

Falkner, N., Vivian, R., Falkner, K., Ajanovski, V., Liebe, C., Morrison, A., & Parker, M. (2020). Meaningful Assessment at Scale: Helping Instructors to Assess Online Learning. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 512-513). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3394993

Vivian, R., Quille, K., Mcgill, M., Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Barksdale, S., . . . Maiorana, F. (2020). An International Pilot Study of K-12 Teachers’ Computer Science Self-Esteem. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 117-123). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3387418

Liebe, C., Camp, T. (2019). An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education. In 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). Koli, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/3364510.3364526

Falkner, K., Sentence, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., Liebe, C., Maiorana, F., McGill, M., Quille, K. (2019). An International Comparison of K-12 Computer Science Education Intended and Enacted Curricula. In Proceedings of Koli Calling ’19: 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456

Falkner, K., Sentance, S., Vivian, R., Barksdale, S., Busuttil, L., Cole, E., . . . Quille, K. (2019). An international benchmark study of K-12 computer science education in schools. In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (pp. 257-258). online: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3304221.3325535

Liebe, C. L. (2019). Dissertation: An Examination of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science Education.

Liebe, C. (2017). Comparison of Abstraction in Computer Coding and in Critical Thinking. In P. Resta & S. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (pp. 1394-1402). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

Contact

Department of Computer Science
CTLM 262
1640 Arapahoe St.
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
970-274-6688
cliebe@mines.edu