Teaching and Learning

Professor Handal’s teaching career includes teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of eLearning, enginering mathematics, business education, and primary and secondary mathematics education methods at the University of Technology Sydney, University of Newcastle, University of Western Sydney and Macquarie University as well as acting as course coordinator for various subjects. Boris was also a head teacher mathematics at Cumberland High School and the School of the Nations of Macau (Asia) and a classroom teacher in various secondary schools in New South Wales and Latin America. He has also worked as a senior learning design officer at the NSW Centre for Learning Innovation producing interactive web-based resources in science and mathematics based on theory-based  instructional design models.

Other senior positions include Learning Development and Evaluations Coordinator at Sydney University implementing a comprehensive eLearning program at the Faculty of Dentistry. Similarly, he designed a blended delivery academic development program at Macquarie University as Director of Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Business and Economics. He is currently a Professor in Digital Learning Technologies and Mathematics Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia coordinating various e-learning subjects across the BEd (Birth-12), BEd (Primary), BA/BEd (Sec) and the DipEd (Sec). Professor Handal also teaches quantitative educational research methods to Masters and Doctoral  students and coordinates the Master of Philosophy (Education) by research program. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta (Canada) and an adjunct supervisor for statistical analysis at Macquarie University.

He is the creator of the Maths Internet Guide at http://mathsinternetguide.weebly.com/ The website showcases over 300 Mathematics websites carefully chosen for their interactivity and grouped into six broad search categories.