Mordechai Ben-Ari

Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari (Template:Langx) is a professor emeritus of computer science education at the Weizmann Institute of Science.<ref>Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari personal webpage</ref>

Ben-Ari has published numerous textbooks in computer science,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> developed software tools for teaching computer science, and written influential papers<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Mordechai+Ben-Ari Mordechai Ben-Ari in Google Scholar</ref><ref>http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Ben=Ari:Mordechai.html Mordechai Ben-Air in DBLP</ref> in computer science education.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> His primary focus has been on books and tools for learning theoretical concepts in computer science and mathematics, such as concurrency<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and mathematical logic.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In collaboration with the University of Joensuu (now part of the University of Eastern Finland) his group developed the Jeliot program<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> animation system for teaching elementary computer science and programming.

He has collaborated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on educational robotics using the Thymio robot.

Ben-Ari has published two books under the Springer Open Access program:

• Elements of Robotics with Francesco Mondada.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Mathematical Surprises.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Ben-Ari received ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions for Computer Science Education in 2004, was named an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2009 and received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award in 2019.

External links

• Jeliot Program Animation System.
• Repositories of pedagogical software and learning materials on GitHub.

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