MICHAEL PRINCE CONSULTING

My particular strength as a consultant is my ability to work with a technical audience – university professors or corporate subject matter experts – to translate educational research into practice.  I’ve taught chemical engineering at the university level for over 25 years.  For over half of that time, I’ve focused my research on understanding what we know about teaching and learning technical content.  This unusual combination allows me to work effectively with a broad audience. 

As an engineer, my approach to instructional design is pragmatic.  I try to understand the needs of my audience and to provide realistic, research-based options for addressing those needs.  I'm good at using data to illustrate what works and showing how to apply educational research to improve knowledge transfer in any setting. 

My research also examines the barriers to change and why instructors are slow to adopt educational research.  This work, in addition to my own experience as a teacher and faculty developer, helps me understand instructor concerns and how to work through those concerns and promote change.