May 2012 Archives

Overall I would say that my teaching has followed a strategy of rapid prototyping and iterative design that I learned as a computer engineering student.  This concept involves swift design decisions and the willingness to take chances and has often been called the "perpetual Beta test."  I believe that as a research practitioner, it is my professional responsibility to experiment and refine my teaching techniques toward effective student outcomes.

My online teaching portfolio shows a few examples of this, but this approach runs throughout my teaching.  I have used post-instruction assessments of students to find areas to work on and adapted my instruction before teaching that class again.  Even if there was no feedback to go on I have integrated a new technology, example, or teaching technique in each class in order to improve my teaching effectiveness.  I have had to be willing to try new things, even if failure is a real possibility, in order to move forward or even keep up with changes in higher education and information technology.