Flower Darby celebrates and promotes effective teaching in all modalities to advance learning outcomes for all students. She’s an Associate Director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri. Prior to that, she held roles such as Assistant Dean of Online and Innovative Pedagogies and Director of Teaching for Student Success. These roles have allowed her to build on her experience teaching in person and online for 30 years in a range of subjects including Psychology, English, technology, education, leadership, dance, and Pilates. In her current work and publications, Darby empowers faculty to teach engaging classes in all modalities so that all students can learn. She is the lead author (with James M. Lang) of
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes. Her new book, The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Online Classes, comes out Spring 2026.
