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 |
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…
Learning to Teach Computer Science
In this paper published in the Communications of the ACM, we argue that in order to meet the CS10K Project goals, high school CS teachers must have in-depth computer science knowledge as well as strong pedagogical content knowledge, developed through a computer science methods course. Learning to Teach Computer Science: The…
Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education Chapter
This chapter was published in Personal epistemology and teacher education (New York, NY: Routledge). In this chapter, we discuss the role of epistemological beliefs in teacher education and limitations of the current knowledge about epistemological beliefs in teacher education. Yadav, A., Herron, M., & Samarapungavan, A. (2011). Epistemological Beliefs in Preservice Teacher…