Christine Liebe, holds a Ph.D. in Education (Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment) and is a Professor of Practice with a joint appointment in the Computer Science (CS) department and with Teach@Mines in the Honors College at Colorado School of Mines. She teaches introductory programming and pre-service CS teacher education courses. Her research interests include K-12 computer science teacher education, abstraction, computational thinking, critical thinking, and learning through research. She provides CS curriculum and evaluation support to K-12 educators and school districts. Christine has founded two vocational schools offering professional massage therapy certification and vocational teaching certification. An online educator since 2010, she has developed and delivered online courses and curriculum (e.g., education, literacy, computer science, biological sciences) for undergraduate and vocational students, as well as faculty and K-12 teachers. Applying herself to pursuits that promote healing, creativity, self-expression, and financial self-sufficiency, Christine has made it her mission to support teacher educators and promote computer science education access, creativity, connectedness, and sustainable communities.
Contact: cliebe@mines.edu or @LiebeChristine
Active Grant Awards
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.
Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon-based Transistors: Materials, Devices, Circuits, and Systems. FuSE: Future of Semiconductors. NSF, multi-institution team-building grant, $50,000 at Colorado School of Mines, Senior Personnel.
Teach@Mines Noyce Scholarship & Stipend Program: NSF – DUE, $1,200,000. Co-PI.
Pending Grant Awards
Collaborative Research: Beginnings: Democratizing Cleanroom Access for Semiconductor Fabrication via Generative AI and Extended Reality: NSF – ExLENT, $265,000. Co-PI.
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).
Presentations
Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference: CS Student-Centered Instructional Continuum (CSSCIC), 7/2021
Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Conference: Instruction of Abstraction in K-12 Computer Science, 7/2017
Innovation in Education in Colorado (InnEdCO): Computational Thinking and CS Instructional Strategies, 6/2019
Innovation in Education in Colorado (InnEdCO): GitHub Education for Teachers, 7/2021
RockCS – Colorado Computer Science Teachers Association: A CS Teacher’s ToolKit, 6/2019
RockCS – Colorado Computer Science Teachers Association: CS Student-Centered Instructional Continuum (CSSCIC), 6/2020
RockCS – Colorado Computer Science Teachers Association: GitHub Education for Teachers, 6/2021
Colorado Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (COTESOL) Adult ELL’s and Critical Literacy Acquisition, 11/2011
International Asian TESOL Conference – Cebu, Philippines Adult ELL’s and Critical Literacy Acquisition, 8/2011
National Accuplacer Conference – The College Board: Critical Literacy Acquisition and Accuplacer Success, 6/2011
Colorado Adult Educator and Professionals Association (CAEPA) ESL Students and Learning Disabilities, 10/2010
AFMTE Education Research Proposal and White Papers
Certiport, July 2017
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