About Teaching Education Contact
About Teaching Education Contact

Alex Jacey Ligthart-Smith

I am a higher education computer science and mathematics learning and teaching specialist. I am passionate about the effective teaching and learning of mathematics and computer science fundamentals, data security and governance principles, ethics, and requirements analysis. I am interested in researching university student engagement with mathematics and theory while studying technical disciplines. My broader interests include theory of computation, discrete mathematics, social analysis of technology, and data privacy.

Academic Teaching

I am experienced in teaching programming fundamentals, C programming, algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, and computability. In addition to the university classroom teaching roles, I have worked as a private tutor in mathematics and computer science, and taught coding to primary (elementary) school aged children at Code Camp. In my current role, I support university students with mathematical, statistical, and programming fundamentals, and in developing effective study skills for mathematics and computer science disciplines.

Sessional teaching
Curtin University, School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences
The University of Melbourne, School of Computing and Information Systems

Education

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Innovative Learning and Teaching [Current student]
Curtin University
Master of Philosophy
The University of Melbourne
Master of Information Technology
The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science
La Trobe University