Michael Jensen

Instructor, English

M.A. in English/Professional Writing, University of Alaska Fairbanks

MSc in Counter-terrorism, Liverpool John Moores University

B.A. in Spanish, Brigham Young University

Mike has been teaching at the community college level for 30 years. He teaches composition, speech, and literature at the Sheridan campus, as well as leading the capstone course on occasion. Mike is particularly interested in online learning and sees it as a way to increase diversity in the student body by opening the world of higher education to many who in generations past would have been denied such an opportunity.

Mike has served on the Online Learning Committee, the Digital Learning Workgroup, the Faculty Senate, and the Faculty Development committees. He is Quality Matters certified.

Mike has participated in numerous professional conferences. His most recent conference presentation was titled, “Making it Relevant: Constructivist Theory and the Use of Analogies in the Online Classroom,” delivered at the Colorado Community College CONNECT conference, and subsequently delivered as a webinar presentation.

Mike has had three books published, including two travel guides and a composition textbook (The Super Compact Guide to Effective College Writing, published in 2015), as well as numerous magazine articles and a weekly newspaper column.