Dr. Sushama Dandekar’s work as an educator in the Chemistry Department, which she finds extremely fulfilling, is guided by her overarching goals: to provide her students with varied opportunities to grow into caring, responsible citizens of the world. In every course she teaches, she assigns multi-layered tasks designed to foster independent learning and collaboration with peers. Completing the assignments typically also facilitates the development of critical... Read more
Dr. Scott Warren is a Professor of Learning Technologies. He historically worked in the areas of learning games and educational systems design. He is the author of Learning Games: The Science and Art (2017) that provided both game development methods and a review of his past learning game designs and research. Scott is also the co-editor of the Advances in Game-Based Learning series. Dr. Warren is external evaluator for National Institutes of Health funded learning games designed by... Read more
Rosana Eckert serves as Principal Lecturer in the Division of Jazz Studies at UNT, teaching private lessons, songwriting, vocal jazz performance techniques, and vocal pedagogy. A classical French hornist turned jazz and contemporary vocalist, Rosana was both the first woman and the first singer to join the jazz faculty back in 1999, initially starting as a part-time instructor and helping build the program into what is now one of the premier vocal jazz programs in the world. Renowned... Read more