Brief but good news
Posted: July 29, 2012 Filed under: Education | Tags: baldwin wallace, book, community, curriculum, education, educational problem, educational research, higher education, puzzle based learning, raja sooriamurthi, resources, teaching, teaching approaches, tools, workload, zbigniew michalewicz 4 CommentsA happy surprise in my mailbox today, but first the background. We’ve been teaching Puzzle Based Learning at Adelaide for several years now, based on Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz’s concept for a course that encouraged problem solving in a domain-free environment. (You can read more details about it by searching for Puzzle Based Learning with the surnames Falkner, Michalewicz and Sooriamurthi – we’ve had work published on this in IEEE Computer and as a workshop at SIGCSE, among several others.) Zbyszek (Adelaide), Raja (Sooriamurthi, a Teaching Professor at CMU) and I teamed up with Professor Ed Meyer (Physics at Baldwin-Wallace) to put together a textbook proposal to help people teach this information.
Great news – our proposal has been accepted by an excellent publishing house who appear to be genuinely excited about the book! As this is my first book, I’m very excited and pleased – but it’s a great reflection on the strength of the team and our composite skills and background, especially with the inter-disciplinary aspects. I’ve seen a lot of exciting work come out of Baldwin-Wallace and, while this is my first time working with Ed, I’m really looking forward to it. (Zbyszek, Raja and I have worked together a lot but I’m still excited to be working with them again!)
Good news after a rather difficult week.
Congratulations! I’ll look forward to reading the book!
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Thank you – I think I look forward to writing it!
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I have read at least one of your papers on this topic, Nick. I read one not long after meeting Matt Dunleavy, who has been experimenting with the educational value of augmented reality.
I will want to read your textbook and apply what I learn from it to what I do in my classrooms. It may be something I want to talk about in my online digital literacy class or in the teacher prep course I adjunct.
Congratulations to you and your collaborators, Nick! Looking forward to seeing your textbook!
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Thanks, Liz. We want to make it a resource for the teachers in the school and starting University level, so it should be useful. Fingers crossed.
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