Teaching @ GSU
Current teaching
Past courses
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Web Application Development with Java (Fall 2006), also in
Summer 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005 - Introduction to Computer Information Systems:
Summer 2005 (archived), Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Summer 2004
Teaching Beliefs
Heuristic teaching: of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student (American Heritage Dictionary).
Teaching and learning are interactive. Neither instructor nor student should dominate each other. A preferred teaching (and learning) environment is built on a balanced information exchange between the two parties. In this process:
- Instructor provides focus. He organizes and manages learning directions by focusing on fundamental and important knowledge in a limited learning period.
- Instructor provides guidance. He guides and assists students in a reasonable way of thinking and doing within the teaching domain.
- Instructor provides information sources. He provides sources that potentially extend and expand students' understanding of the subjects.
- Students should be active. Learning is best when students have the desire to learn; learning is best when students do the work and experience the process by themselves; learning is best when students actively exchange information and learning experience with the instructor and among themselves.
- Students should be explorative. A good student follows the course plan: lecture, book, assignments, etc. A better student extends the learning into a bigger context, defining and answering his/her own questions.
Teaching Interests
- Web information systems and web applications development
- Information system analysis and design
- Business application development
- Database design and management, conceptual modeling, database applications
- Decision support systems and business intelligence
- E-Business and systems