About The Instructors

Your instructors for this course are Heather M. Ross and Ryan Banow, both Instructional Design Specialist with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Saskatchewan.

Heather M. Ross

Twitter - @mctoonish Links to an external site.

I am an Instructional Design Specialist with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness (GMCTE) and hold Professional Affiliate status in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan.

I earned a BA in journalism from California State University Northridge, a B.Ed. from OISE / University of Toronto, graduated with a M.Ed. from what is now the Educational Technology and Design (ETAD) program at the U of S, and am currently working on my PhD in ETAD (also at the U of S). I have been working in education for more than a decade and have been blogging about education since 2005.

I have researched the use of Twitter in large lecture courses and am currently working on research related to the design of open courses.

Ryan Banow

Twitter - @rbanow Links to an external site.

I am an Instructional Design Specialist with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness (GMCTE) and an instructor in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan.

I grew up in rural Saskatchewan and proceeded to attend the University of Saskatchewan to complete a BEd. and a BSc. in Math. I taught secondary school for five years. Since 2012, I have been working at the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness. My work involves planning and leading workshops for university instructors, consulting with instructors on teaching methods and course design, teaching courses to graduate students who are new to teaching, developing teaching resources, and so on. I recently received my MEd. in Educational Technology and Design and began teaching an undergraduate course in the College of Education. I am keenly interested in flipped and blended learning, active learning, technology integration, effective teaching, and math and science education.