Celebrate Learning! Spring 2014 (Vol 5, Issue 2) | Page 11

Spotlight on Faculty Excellence Spotlight On… Lynnda Brown Rosemary Carlson Associate Professor Science & Mathematics West Campus CELT Coordinator Full-time Faculty Awards for Teaching Excellence Winners Spotlight On… Glenn Jones Assistant Professor of IT Networking & Cloud Computing Q: What’s your most effective teaching strategy and why do you think it works? A:I like to provide as much hands-on learning as possible. Most of my classes are lab classes, and I am constantly monitoring, re-writing, and retesting labs to keep up with the never-ending changes in Information Technology. It works because it provides the students with real world scenarios, and because the students really enjoy practical applications of the theoretical aspects of their IT education. Instructional Design We continue our spotlight on the winners of the 2013 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence with Lynnda Brown. Lynnda, an instructional designer and trainer in Distance Learning, teaches English and she