Browsing by Author "Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle"

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    Adult Education And Faculty Development: Expanding The Reach In The Academy
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2004) Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle
    This evaluation study examines how faculty development courses on teaching and learning (OTLA) contribute to the “learning community” at a Midwestern University that promotes engagement “in the discovery of knowledge, the integration of learning experiences, and [faculty’s] applications through civic and professional leadership.” The study has three objectives: 1) Investigate how participation in the courses promotes collegial relationships across campus. 2) Understand the impact of the courses on faculty participants in establishing a collaborative culture around teaching. 3) Recognize the components of OTLA courses that contribute to the collaborative culture around teaching. Through this study, I seek to find ways that collaboration around teaching and learning occurs interdepartmentally at the university.
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    EMBRACING AND EXTENDING THE MARGINS OF ADULT EDUCATION:EXPERIENCES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
    (2005-11-21T18:23:41Z) Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle; Wise, Meg
    Adult educators, working in non-traditional interdisciplinary settings, sit at the confluence of where the margins of several disciplines meet to exchange ideas on how to advance theory and practice to facilitate adult learning. This paper uses two case studies of how adult educators work in interdisciplinary non-traditional adult education organizational settings—a state-level family literacy initiative and an interdisciplinary online adult patient education research and development program—to improve programs that facilitate adult learning. The paper concludes with a discussion of barriers to and strategies for integrating adult education principles into mainstream programs.
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    Expectations And Experiences With Teaching Women At A Private College In Saudi Arabia
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle
    The focus of this research is to understand the expectations of faculty and administration at Effat College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I assessed the college’s current status to understand ways to “improve the quality of education at the school” by interviewing the faculty and administration about how they saw the roles. I sought to identify and understand the many issues facing this newly established college in order to build upon its strengths and support its growth and future success. As the college was still developing policies, procedures, and systems, the faculty—mostly expatriate teachers—were very uncomfortable because the expectations and experiences differed significantly between faculty and administration.
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    Working With Interdisciplinary Teams Of Boundary Spanners: The Challenges And Potential For Adult Education
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Wise, Meg; Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle
    Innovative research and development for holistic adult on-line health education (eHealth) is increasingly conducted by interdisciplinary teams of boundary spanners in grant-funded academic institutes. Typically, these teams include fields that represent the whole person with an illness in their social and technological context: medicine, nursing, social and counseling psychology, social work, systems engineering, and the communications and information sciences. However, adult education does not typically sit at these collaborative research tables. This paper uses a case example of a sole adult educator working in such a setting to explore how adult education fits into this new boundary-spanning field of practice and scholarship.