Biography for Shaun Neill Taylor
Shaun Taylor is Vice President for Product Development at Videodiscovery
and creator of Bioethics Forums. Mr. Taylor has a B.S. in Zoology
and a M.Ed. in science education. He has taught middle school
and high school science. Much of his career has been spent developing
science curriculum: first through the auto-tutorial biology lab
at University of Washington and then with the hands on energy
education activities with the Alternative Energy Resources Organization
in Montana. Since 1986 he has directed the development of science laserdiscs
and software at Videodiscovery, Inc in Seattle.
He has produced more than 30 videodiscs and dozens of CD-ROM software
products. Mr. Taylor won special recognition from the New York
Film Festivals for the Science Sleuths series and recently was
nominated one of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers by the Video
and Multimedia Producer magazine. His is broadly interested in
using all kinds of technology to improve science education. He
is keenly focused on the use of dramatized scenarios such as Bioethics
Forums, Science Sleuths, and STS Forums which have the ability
to capture students' imagination and provide a rich, yet structured,
problem solving environment. He is currently working
on a two-year NSF grant to develop an electronic performance-based
assessment system which will use multimedia and state-of-the-art
software logic to assess students' higher-level thinking skills.
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