Kennesaw State University

Department of Technical Communication and Interactive Design, Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Fall 2025

• IAD3300: Ethnography For Designers - Face-to-Face section 

• TCOM4120: Usability - Face-to-Face section 

• IAD4400: Directed Study - Design Development Evaluation of an e-Mental Health Application

Spring 2025

• IAD3300: Ethnography For Designers - Face-to-Face section 

• TCOM4120: Usability - Face-to-Face section 

Fall 2024

• IAD3300: Ethnography For Designers - Face-to-Face section 

• TCOM4120: Usability - Face-to-Face section 

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA 

School of Information Science & Learning Technologies

1. Instructor of Record, ISLT 4473 - Introduction to Project Management, Online sections (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)

Introduction to Project Management is a 16-week course offered every Spring in SISLT. As an instructor of record, I taught the online sections of the course. The course material and syllabus were pre-designed, and I utilized this opportunity to tweak the syllabus, course material, assignments, and discussion posts to make the course more engaging. I created project groups in the class. Within each group, each student picked up a project idea that interested them to work through the semester. Based on their project idea, the students worked on the assignments as individual project managers. Group members utilized discussion boards to critique and provide feedback on other member's work. The final assignment was a group presentation of the project ideas of the group members, organized sequentially in order of priority, based on the principles of project management learned in class. 

For the first eight weeks, I created weekly discussion posts for the students where they first posted individual responses, followed by critiquing their peers' posts. Critiquing helps students to learn analytical skills. For the next four weeks, I created group discussion posts for students to engage in group work. I also created a member feedback form for each group assignment. In addition to the final assignment, the students submit a reflection report on their learning experiences in the class.

Teaching this course has taught me to design and develop learning material to create an engaging learning environment. I have learned how to cooperate with students, motivate them, address their issues with peers, and help them manage their assignments.  I aimed to improve the course design to include digital accessibility and make it compliant with national accreditation and certification using the Five Pillars Quality Review for effective course design.

2. Instructor of Record, ISLT 4473 - Information Management and the Successful Scholar, Online sections (Fall 2022; Spring 2023)

The Information Management and the Successful Scholar helped students determine what information is needed for a project, access and critically evaluate information in the library and the internet, understand intellectual property, develop skills for lifelong learning, and learn to use a variety of technological tools that can help them succeed in college. Information Management and the Successful Scholar is a 16-week course. As an Instructor of Record, I was responsible for teaching an online section of ~30 students about analyzing, accessing, and critically evaluating information available in the library and the internet for research. I adopted the approach of active learning to foster learner engagement in the class where I designed the learning goals and assignments for collaborative student interaction (e.g., online discussions of readings), asked students to reflect on the learning artifact they produced, and provided them formative feedback to enable them to improve their work and gain more points. Positive constructive feedback is vital to this process. In lectures, I aimed to engage students by periodically pausing to pose a relevant question to elicit discussion, as well as encourage student presentations in senior classes. My teaching evaluation was 5 (Fall 2022) and 4.67/5 (Spring 2023); and students commented, “The instructor was amazing.”

3. Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Digital Media, Online sections (Fall 2021)

4. Teaching Assistant, Designing Online Learning, Online sections (Fall 2021)

I was a teaching assistant in Introduction to Digital Media and Designing Online Learning, two separate online courses taught by Dr. Xinhao Xu. These were eight-week courses with 38  to 40 students in each class. My roles and responsibilities for the online sections included organizing learning materials and activities for students, reading discussion board posts, and responding/providing solutions accordingly. In addition,  I got an opportunity to cooperate with learners and create an engaging learning environment.

As a part of my teaching assistantship, I assisted in designing and developing two online courses on the Canvas platform for the Quality Course Review process, which included working with HTML language. I assisted in re-designing and developing the courses to include digital accessibility and make them compliant with national accreditation and certification.