Professor of Education, Jones International University 
"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become." --Ben Herbster
About the Instructor
Richard NeSmith teaches graduate/doctoral students online for an international university. Formerly Dean of Education at North Greenville University in South Carolina. Prior to that he was Professor of Science and Technology at Eastern Illinois University and Lake Erie College (OH), respectively, preparing teachers and preservice teachers in the Colleges of Education. He has lived, studied and taught secondary school in Australia, South Carolina and Georgia. Richard holds eight university degrees, including the Doctor of Science Education from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia (2004).
Richard has taught science, history and math at the middle school and high school grades, chaired a secondary science and mathematics department during his 9 years as a classroom teacher, in addition to having experience as an administrator at various levels, including such a career prior to education.
Richard's most recent works includes eighteen journal publications, a dissertation entitled, Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Effective Teaching and Learning in the Middle Level Science Classroom: The Effects on Student Achievement, and an interactive human biology CD-ROM textbook entitled, Human Biology: Entering the 21st Century (2004). The latter is a digital science textbook developed from his perceiving a need for a "student friendly," yet thorough textbook for his Human Biology students. The uniqueness of this interactive multimedia approach is the more than 35,000 internal links, most of which are cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, for the purpose of helping science students learn the "language of science." In addition there are many other resources, as well as over 600 html files, 50 articles, 120 reports (totaling more than 6,400 files), and 13,500 Internet links for those with access to the World Wide Web.
His interest includes: curriculum, and middle school education; learning theory, classroom environment, student perceptions, the middle school concept, the use of interactive media in education, distance education (E-learning), and the improvement of teaching of science and mathematics.
He enjoys reading, hiking, baseball, tennis, field-research, and collecting spiffy epigrams.
Richard is married to the lovely Melissa NeSmith, a special education
teacher. He has two sons, Ricky and Wendell, and one daughter-in-law,
Gennah. Richard and Melissa have two dogs, Shy and Boots (both were
rescued pups). And, as of May 23, 2008, they have a new member of their family by adoption, their new-born son, Caleb Jon NeSmith...Welcome, to this world, Caleb, we love you very much.
My wife looks on as my "friends" bestow upon me their Aussie hospitality and generosity. With friends like these, who needs comedians?
This is Shy, a rescued pup; part Australian Cattle Dog and part Labrador Retriever. I think the left ear is the former and the right ear the latter.
Boots is a border collie and lab mix.
Our son, Caleb, came into our family in spring of 2008. What a blessing he is to us!
Early SPRING 2010!!!
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