Education Leaders Program / Wouter Verweirder
Wouter Verweirder
Kortrijk, Belgium
School affiliations
"Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand."
— Confucius 551-479 BC
Wouter Verweirder is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders, where he teaches multimedia and web development. He is also owner of a company called Happy Banana, where he works on award-winning Adobe® Flash® Platform projects.
Currently, he’s working on the Devine (Digital Design and Media) curriculum, a three-year creative bachelor's program combining front-end development with design. Verweirder makes sure the development track is up to date.
In his classes, students learn the basics of programming with ActionScript®, and then advance to larger Flash and Flex projects. His students get a lot of practical experience in lab sessions as well as real-world projects.
