Adrian Janson BSc DipEd MEd

Adrian Janson has been a committed I.T teacher for 15 years with the majority of his career at Melbourne High School, a select entry school for year 9 to 12 boys. Adrian has developed a number of textbooks that have been successfully used in class rooms around the world. His latest books “Visual Basic for Education” and “Visual Basic.Net for Education” (available through this web site) have sold thousands of copies and are based on teaching software development through the use of game design in order to be relevant and innovative in teaching secondary students.

Adrian was a member of the author team that produced the recent text “More Than Just Marks: A Manual for Boy’s Education”. Adrian contributed a chapter entitled ‘Using Computer Programming to Enhance Boys’ Learning in Information Technology’. Adrian’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science [Monash University, Melbourne, Australia], Postgraduate Diploma in Education [Monash University, Melbourne, Australia], Master of Education (Information and communication technologies) [Monash University, Melbourne, Australia].

Adrian is currently the elected President of the Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association (VITTA) and has attended and presented at numerous conferences on IT education both nationally and internationally. He was the project manager and one of the contributors for a recent VITTA project titled “VB.Net Resource Kit” in which he worked with a colleague to produce an extensive multimedia resource kit for educators.

Adrian was selected to be on a Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (VCAA) review committee assigned the role of writing the new Victorian Certificate of Education curriculum for Information Technology and hence he has an excellent knowledge of the curriculum for this subject.