As an instructor, Dr. Michael Windelspecht has taught human genetics, introductory biology, and genetics in the traditional, online, and hybrid environments at community colleges, military institutions, and comprehensive universities. For over a decade Dr. Windelspecht served as the Introductory Biology Coordinator at Appalachian State University where he directed a program that enrolled over 4,500 college students annually. Dr. Windelspecht currently serves as an adjunct professor of biology at ASU where he teaches non-majors biology and human genetics in the online and hybrid formats. He got his education from Michigan State University and the University of South Florida. He is also active in promoting the scientific literacy of secondary school educators. He has led multiple workshops on integrating water quality research into the science curriculum, and has spent several summers teaching middle school teachers from Pakistan. As an author, Michael Windelspecht has published 5 reference textbooks, and multiple online and print lab manuals. He served as the series editor for a 10-volume work on the human body. For years he has been active in the development of multimedia resources for the online and hybrid science classrooms. Along with his wife, Sandra, he owns a multimedia production company, Ricochet Creative Productions, which actively develops and assesses new technologies for the science classroom.