Teaching Experience

I base my teaching on the acceptance that each student will learn differently. The individual background each brings to the classroom will influence how the knowledge will be constructed.

It is my role to facilitate that process - I hope to achieve this by making the learning experience as authentic as possible - not just a series of facts that must be 'known', but

• an assembling of concepts
• strategies to use and evaluate those concepts and
• experiences that model how those would be used within the discipline they/we belong.

Therefore my goal is to facilitate learning, not just to provide teaching in a subject area. It is important that the students develop skills that will enable them to keep on learning - this is vital in a discipline that is rapidly changing. It is also important that they see the material I present holistically - not just of value for its own sake, but placed in the context of the discipline and its needs.


The focus therefore in these units is on engaging students, on collaborative work (teacher/student as well as student/student), on strategies to problem solve, think critically and creatively and strategies for students to control their own learning and provide a challenge they will rise to.

Murdoch University School of Information Technology

2007	ICT421	IT Professional Practice
	ICT327	Management of IT Projects
2006	ICT107	Principles of Information Systems and Data Management




• Murdoch University School of Engineering (Science)

  2005	ENG301	Engineering Studio: Requirements Engineering and Software Process
  	ENG302	Engineering Studio: Software Architecture and Design
  1999-2004	G260	Requirements Engineering
  	G375	Advanced Software Design I
  2000 -2004	G417	Advanced Software Design II
  2000	G414/G415	Thesis/Honours Thesis

• 1988 - 1997
  
  Curtin University of Technology School of Computing
  • February 1994 - July 1997 (part time lecturer)

    1994 - 1997 Lecturer-in-charge Software Engineering 251/501
    1994 - 1996 Lecturer-in-charge Information Technology 501
    1996 semester 2, 1994 - 1995 Lecturer-in-charge Software Engineering 252/502
    1994 semester 2 Lecturer-in-charge Computer Science 452

  • February 1988 - December 1993 (sessional lecturer)

    1988-1989 co-lecturer ILS 203 (service unit in computing for the Department of Library and Information Studies)
    1988 - 1993 Lecturer-in-charge Information Technology 502 (now IT501)
    1993 semester 2 Lecturer-in-charge Software Engineering 251/501
    
    During this time additional, incidental lecturing has been undertaken

    • Software Engineering 251/501
    • Software Engineering 252/502
    • Computer Science 452

    
    Tutoring undertaken has included

    • Computer Programming 151
    • Programming Principles 501 (now incorporated in CP 501)
    • Systems Analysis and Design 501 (now SE 501)
    • Software Engineering 251/501
    • Software Engineering 252/502