The influence of “the design way” permeates all aspects of my teaching, from the manner in which the courses are constructed, the activities students engage in, and in how learning is evaluated. I approach my teaching as a designer, attempting to craft powerful, compelling, aesthetic, and rewarding learning experiences for my students. I expect and demand excellence of myself and try to foster a learning environment where I model principles of effective teaching, create an inclusive professional community of practice, create meaningful learning opportunities for students, and demonstrate a passion for knowledge and learning. There are four key themes to my teaching: (a) Connecting technology to ideas; (b) Facilitating collaborative engagement with authentic activities; (c) Modeling scholarship and passion; (d) Personal experiments with technologies for learning. 

I have taught at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels in the areas of educational psychology, educational technology, creativity, design, and media. I have also taught courses and conducted workshops on creativity, innovation and design for the MBA program at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad) as well as the Executive MBA program at the Broad School of Business, Michigan State University.

I have been lucky to receive many accolades for my teaching, including a Lilly Faculty Fellowship (2001), the MSU Teacher Scholar Award (2004), the College of Education’s Teaching Excellence Award (2006), the AT&T-MSU award for Instructional Technology (twice, once in 2008 for best online course & again in 2013 for best hybrid/blended course); and the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Teaching for me is not just an engaging activity is it also a space for me to experiment and reflect. I have through my career tried to document this process in systematic ways aka I have tried to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Over the years these have led to  to multiple publications, including essays (Mishra, 2005), journal articles (Ferdig, Mishra & Zhao, 2004; Mishra & Girod, 2006/2007; Girod, Bell, & Mishra, 2007) and book chapters (Mishra, Hershey & Cavanaugh, 2007; Wong, Mishra, Koehler, Siebanthal, 2007). A good example of the manner in which my teaching has been the site for scholarship can be seen in the learning by design seminars I taught and through that the development of the TPACK framework.

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Courses I have taught (over the years)