teaching

The goal of any university faculty member should be to integrate theory and practice at all levels of the educational experience. I consider teaching to be an important part of my professional development and personal satisfaction. I have taught a wide variety of face-to-face courses as a teaching assistant, part-time lecturer, visiting assistant professor and lecturer at several institutions. I taught the lead course Organizing Information while I was a PhD student at Rutgers University. At Pratt Institute in New York City, I taught Online Database Searching and Services and Internet Services and Sources.

At Charles Sturt University I have taught various online courses and participated the curriculum renewal and creation of the Honors program by designing learning activities and writing course materials in collaboration with colleagues. Currently, I am delivering several courses within and outside areas of specialist research interests, including The Digital Environment, Describing and Analyzing Information Resources, Advanced Information Retrieval, Advanced Web Design and Publishing and Information Architecture for the Web.

My teaching philosophy is to encourage students to develop their critical thinking skills through the reflection of their learning processes and the engagement with class discussions. To achieve these objectives, I have encouraged students to formulate their own questions by reflecting on their understanding of course materials on discussion forums through various exercises and learning activities. In addition, I take the experiential learning approach to the learning and teaching of procedural knowledge, with particular reference to the use and application of information technologies.