William R. Schleter |
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Formal research and publication is not required of a lecturer position, but my activities in these areas show my commitment to the ideals and goals of the university above and beyond standard expectations. As can be seen, my interests and strengths lie in the application of instructional technology and the pedagogy of engineering education. The types of classes EF teaches inherently provide a living laboratory for trying new things. Every day we are faced with decisions on how to best help students learn. We try new methods and approaches based on our intuition and past experience. These informal trials are in essence applied research topics. The "let's try presenting it a different way," "let's try this type of exam", and "lets set up this lab exercise to see if it helps them understand" are all examples of this. We have a distinct advantage over most trials of this type in that the custom course web system that I've developed provides a flexible tool for quickly and easily implementing and evaluating many of these new ideas. The resources listed below represent the work I've done or have assisted in an attempt to document and share some of the results of our years of experience. Publications
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