Over the past decade, I have spoken about on how faculty can improve student learning at conferences and workshops in Africa, Asia, Australia,  Europe,  and, of course, North America (details).

Work on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has had a particular influence on how I approach teaching and learning. Of special significance were the three years of participation in the Research University Consortium for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the Carnegie Academy for the Advancement of Teaching. I am especially proud of the white paper we developed to guide research universities in implementing policies to support SoTL.

Much of my teaching development has come as I have explored how technology might enhance student learning. For me, that has always meant being very strategic in selecting how technologies impact learning. For example, I used an online chat tool in several research seminars in the late 1990s to enable my students to engage the authors of the articles they were reading. In this way, they could directly ask the person who conducted the study why a particular design was used or why the sample was selected in a certain manner.

Because research has shown that students will remember more and understand more deeply what they see and hear, I created a virtual classroom for my students to analyze pupils' work samples that would be characteristic of those with whom they be working in school settings.

More recently, students in my pedagogy courses have been exploring tools, such as class response systems, course management systems (Blackboard) and virtual class systems (Eluminate) to assess how these technologies might promote learning within their disciplines.

Teaching Experience

During my more than 30 years of teaching in the special education program at Georgia State University, I have taught courses from the bachelor's level to the doctoral level. Although most classes were taught using a single instructor model, I have team-taught courses (working with another instructor in the same class at the same time) and collaboratively taught (alternating instruction). I must say that working with another instructor is both more challenging and more rewarding.

Here is a link to a copy of my brief
Curriculum vita