Judithe Sheard is an associate professor with the Faculty of Information Technology and is the head of the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University. She has served in leadership roles both nationally and internationally in the computing education research community. She is the codirector of the Computing Education Research Group at Monash University and the immediate past chair of the Australasian chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computing Education (SIGCSE). She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications on IT education and educational technology. She has more than 20 years teaching experience in IT. Together with three other colleagues, she received the 2002 Monash Vice Chancellor's Award for Team-Based Educational Development. She established and is the director of the Monash Museum of Computing History.