My role as a teacher is so entwined with my role as a researcher that it is difficult for me to separate them. I believe my most valuable instructional interactions are those with students in the context of engaging in research. I operate my research laboratory, RITL (Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning), according to an interdisciplinary team approach, where each new student researcher first learns about every component of the project (e.g., agent character development, experimental design, instrument design/development, database issues, system architecture, literature). In terms of project outcomes, this serves as a way to promote better understanding of the interconnectedness of the tasks as well as better communication among the team members. But more importantly, it facilitates an environment that promotes continual learning. Our weekly meetings involve enlivened debates of me and 10+ students representing disciplines such as computer science, graphic arts, cognitive psychology, and instructional systems. I frequently find it amazing that I get paid for the amount of intellectual fun that we have!

For many years, I have supervised undergraduate courses in educational technology, and teach classes at the graduate level in multimedia design/development, doctoral research seminars in interactive learning technologies, and theories of learning and cognition.

My Doctoral Student Graduates as Major Professor:

	Dr. Yanghee Kim (on right), graduated 2004, now Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University. Shown with me and Dr. Allan Jeong. Dissertation: “Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: The Effects of Affect and Gender on Learning, Interest, Self-Efficacy, and Agent Persona” She received the Young Scholar Award for paper that I co-authored with her, published in Educational Technology Research and Development: “A Social-Cognitive Framework for Designing Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions.” (published in 2006).
	Dr. Jeeheon Ryu (on left), graduated 2004, now teaching and consulting in Korea. Shown with daughter Jennifer, me, and wife Dr. Minjeong Kim (See below). Dissertation: "A Cognitive Model of Knowledge Transformation in Authoring Hypertext" Dr. Minjeong Kim (on right), graduated 2005. Dissertation: "The Effects of the Assessor and Assessee’s Roles on Preservice Teachers’ Metacognitive Awareness, Performance, and Attitude in a Technology-Related Design Task"
	Dr. Soyoung Kim (right), graduated 2006. Dissertation: "Juxtaposition of Semiotic Mediation with Social Mediation: The Effects of Text Types and Social Interaction on Moral Judgment"
	Dr. Suzanne Ebbers (right), graduated 2007. Dissertation: The Impact of Social Model Agent Type (Coping, Mastery) and Social Interaction Type (Vicarious, Direct) on Learner Motivation, Attitudes, Social Comparisons, Affect and Learning Performance "
	Dr. Miyoung Lee, graduated 2007. Dissertation: (link forthcoming)
My Doctoral Student Graduates as Committee Member:
	I was happy to serve on the doctoral committees of both Dr. Sanghoon Park, (left), and his now-wife Dr. Jung Lim (right). Both are now professors at Northwestern State University in Louisiana. I also was pleased to serve on the committee of Dr. ChanMin Kim (below, left).