Hi! My name is Jered Borup and I will be your instructor this semester. The following is just a little information so that you can get to know me better and I look forward to getting to know you as we work together.
My Professional Self
- I'm an assistant professor in the Division of Learning Technologies.
- I've taught online and blended courses since 2008 years
- I taught social studies for six years in an Idaho junior high school. Interestingly, they converted the school into a high tech high school that is based on problem based learning. I visited the school during the holidays and I could hardly recognize it. Things are a changing!
- I got my Master's in Secondary Education from Idaho State University.
- In 2013 I finished my Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University.
- My research focuses on building K-12 online learning communities and student support systems.
- More information about my teaching and research can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/jeredborup/
My Personal Self
I'm a proud papa to two girls and lucky husband to Pam. More about our adventures can be found on our family blog: http://theborups.blogspot.com/
Here's a little more about myself:
- I grew up in a small Utah town with about 2,000 people and no stoplights (98 students were in my graduating class). Footloose was actually filmed pretty close to where I lived.
- My wife, Pam, is a vegetarian so if you ever see me eating out, there's a good chance that I will be eating a hamburger.
- There are a lot of teachers in my family. My Grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse, my mom taught high school English, my dad taught sociology and statistics at Weber State University, my mother-in-law teaches 2nd grade, my brother teaches 9th grade English, and his wife teaches special education in an elementary school. Education is very important to my family and I always knew that I wanted to be a teacher.
- I'm 6'8" or two standard deviations from the mean for any statistics folks out there. As a result, I've either played or coached basketball most of my life. It's funny because here people associate being tall with playing basketball. However, I lived in Portugal for a while and there they associate being tall with picking figs. I have to say I would rather have people telling me "I bet you're good at basketball" than "I bet you're a great fig picker." Although there are benefits to being tall, this video highlights a few drawbacks.
