Short Bio I am a Lappan-Phillips Professor of Computing Education in the College of Education and College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. In addition to Ph.D. in Learning, Design, and Technology. I hold bachelors and masters in Electrical Engineering. My research and teaching focus on supporting educators to understand, apply, and critically evaluate the use of computing in K-12 classrooms. |
Contact
Dr. Aman Yadav Professor Educational Psychology and Educational Technology East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A email: ayadav (at) msu.edu ph: 517-884-2094 Follow @yadavaman |
Competencies in Computational Thinking: Perspectives from Germany
During October 2014, I spent a week at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) for a workshop sponsored by the German Ministry of Education & Research on modeling and measuring competencies in higher education. (KoKoHS) With my colleagues, Leigh Graves Wolf and Jon Good from Michigan State University we collaborated with two…
Case-based instruction: Improving students’ conceptual understanding through cases in a mechanical engineering course
Yadav, A., Vinh, M., Shaver, G., Meckl, P., & Rose, S. (2014). Case-based Instruction: Improving students’ conceptual understanding through cases in a mechanical engineering course. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51 (5), 659-677, doi: 10.1002/tea.21149 Recently, there has been a push within engineering curricula to adopt more learner-centered pedagogies, such as case-based…
NSF funded project
I am the PI on a newly funded project to develop an evidence-based professional development (PD) program for computer science teachers. The goal of this project is to improve teachers’ knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background.…
Risks and uncertainties in virtual worlds: an educators’ perspective
Farahmand, F., Yadav, A., & Spafford, E. H. (2013) Characterizing risks in virtual worlds: A learning technology Application. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, doi: 10.1007/s12528-013-9067-5 Virtual worlds present tremendous advantages to cyberlearning. For example, in virtual worlds users can socialize with others, build objects and share them, customize parts…