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Presenting at International Adult Education Conference

Presenting at International Adult Education Conference

Dr. King at CIAE 2018

This morning, 10/2/2018 I had the wonderful  experience of presenting and facilitating discussion at the Commission of International Adult Education Conference. The international scholars were thoroughly engaged with the research developed by Masha Krsmanovic (PHD Candidate), Dr. Kathleen P. King, and Dr. Lou Sabina entitled,;

“Where is the Equity? Different states, different hurdles and rules for international students: Affordability of and access to U.S. Higher Education for international students”

In brief, this study reported the unexpected results of our recent research regarding potential equity issues in admissions of international students in U.S.public higher education institutions.

Context: While recent studies have revealed that due to many factors, the U.S. has experienced an unprecedented decline in attracting new international students (IIE, 2017) in higher education. In addition to obvious changes in the political climate and competition, national and institutional barriers contribute to this phenomenon. Other countries, specifically Australia, Canada, and England are seeing their international student population increase while the United States continues to show a consistent decline over the last 10 years. Moreover, the cost of attendance, fees, and additional charges applied to foreign students, vary by dozens of thousands of dollars on institutional or state levels (SHEEO, 2008; US News, 2012).

The Study: Examining international student residency classification issues from a critical race theory perspective, this study included an institutional survey and quantitative analysis of institutional, state, and federal policies. Our objectives were to (1) examine the costs associated with access to undergraduate and graduate education, (2) identify potential challenges to equal opportunity and access of international students, and (3) provide recommendations for increasing the affordability and enrollments of this student population.

This short paper is being developed into a much more detailed manuscript for journal submission.

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2018 CIAE Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.

 

 

TAA Excellence Award for Dr. King’s Book

TAA Excellence Award for Dr. King’s Book

Award and book coverTextbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) announced the winners of the 2018 Textbook Awards.

Dr. Kathleen P. King’s recent publication through Wiley/Jossey-Bass Inc.,  Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning, earned one of these prestigious awards.

The Textbook Excellence Award  recognizes excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. The Most Promising New Textbook Award recognizes excellence in 1st edition textbooks and learning materials. The McGuffey Longevity Award recognizes textbooks and learning materials whose excellence has been demonstrated over time.

Reviewer comments regarding Dr King’s book, Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning:

Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning makes this subject accessible to adult learners in addition to being a resource for a variety of adult educators. The scenarios at the beginning of each chapter and the exercises readers complete at the end of each chapter provide relevant examples and encourage critical thinking opportunities for adult learners.”

Dr. King shared that she greatly appreciated receiving this honor from her esteemed colleagues in TAA. She said, “I am greatly honored to earn such recognition from my colleagues. TAA  is a highly valued professional association of accomplished  academic authors. As an association, we work to support faculty in developing their writing skills, success, and productivity as well as increase the quality of academic books and textbooks.”

The TAA Textbook Awards will be presented during an awards luncheon at TAA’s 31st Annual Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference in Santa Fe, NM, Friday, June 15, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. at the La Fonda Hotel.

View all the 2018 Textbook Award Winners

Nominations for the 2019 Textbook Awards are open September 1 to November 1, 2018. Learn more.

Book Trailer for King’s Wiley Publication!

Book Trailer for King’s Wiley Publication!

The TELLC team published the first of a series of book trailers for  Dr. King’s Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning book.

The book trailer series consists of very brief videos spanning overviews of the book, interviews with the author, and feedback from the field.

Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning introduces educators and students to the intersection of adult learning and the growing technological revolution. Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field, this book explores the theory, research, and practice driving innovation in both adult learning and learning technology, and illuminates a powerful approach to recognize and leverage these opportunities. Building on current trends and research in technology and its use, each chapter illustrates the need, opportunities, and examples of current and future technologies that scaffold adult learning, and provides comprehensive coverage of both current and emerging challenges.

At this time, the author and her team are developing and posting additional instructional resources for Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning.

  • The book has been written and designed to meet the needs of multiple audiences.
  • It can be used both as a textbook for classes which include the topic and as professional development book for teachers of adults.
  • The book features As with other books authored by Dr. King, colleges and universities are already using Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning as a focal point for faculty reading circles.
  • Practical, innovative, compelling and action-oriented: these are a few of the descriptions of King’s work to make the linkages among technology and adult learning exciting and applicable to teachers of adults.

To access these materials and gain more insight into the book’s focus and content, please visit the Wiley publisher site for this book at http://bit.ly/King2017

Praise for Dr. King’s newest book

Kathleen P. King continues to surprise and delight me as she adds even more insights into adult education in this modern world. She has the unique ability to first and foremost capture the practical opportunities and challenges of educating adults, informed by immense personal knowledge, experience and understanding.  I felt affirmed as a professional and challenged to further strive, to grow and to excel as an adult educator.

–       Dr. Shirley Reushle, University of Southern Queensland, Australia             

     

Dr. King’s Newest Technology Book

Dr. King’s Newest Technology Book

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Dr. King’s 2017 Book

Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning equips practitioners to further adult learning and shape the future of the field, while providing a rich perspective for classroom inquiry and research.

“If you teach adults and are thinking about, or are currently using digital tools with your learners, this book is for you. King has done it again! “

Kathy Peno, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Adult Education, University of Rhode Island

Adult learning is on the rise, and there is no mistaking technology’s role; whether they’re learning with or about technology, today’s adult learners come with unique sets of needs and skills that demand specialized approaches. Traditional pedagogical techniques don’t transfer directly, and learning technology requires its own unique approach to development and use.

A comprehensive exploration of technology’s role in adult learning

Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning introduces educators and students to the intersection of adult learning and the growing technological revolution.

Anyone working today with adult learners in this rapidly evolving digital age will benefit from Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning. With twenty years of pioneering the discourse on integrating technology in adult learning and teaching, Kathy King brings a cutting edge understanding to this book.

Roger Hiemstra, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University

Building on current trends and research in technology and its use, each chapter illustrates the need, opportunities, and examples of current and future technologies that scaffold adult learning, and provides comprehensive coverage of both current and emerging challenges.

Uniquely integrating adult learning and technology for global and digital learners, Technology Innovation in Adult Learning is a timely, comprehensive, theory/model based and strategies/discussion rich book. Kathy King’s distinctive expertise and years of research and teaching in both adult learning and technology fields provides readers not only with a wide angle to view a new vista of applying learning theories for adult lifelong learning needs, but also with applicable use of instructional technology tools and examples. .. It is a must-have reference book for anyone who works with adult learners in formal, informal, and non-formal learning environments.

Dr. Qi Sun, Associate Professor, Program Coordinator of Adult Learning & Adult Education; Co-Editor, Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ), The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field, Dr. King’s book explores the theory, research, and practice driving innovation in both adult learning and learning technology, and illuminates a powerful approach to recognize and leverage these opportunities.

 

Visit the book home page for more details

 

 

 

Transforming Education, Educators and Students With Technology

Transforming Education, Educators and Students With Technology

 

Article published in Inside Fordham 9/1//2006

By Peter Catapano

“Theory is wonderful, but if it remains by itself it becomes stale. It gathers its lifeblood in research and practice.” — Kathleen King

If back in the day, say 1995, you were unreasonably distraught when you were forced to trade your Smith Corona for Microsoft Word, or maybe pulled your hair out trying to figure out how to use e-mail, you probably could have used the advice and support of Kathleen P. King, Ed.D., professor of education at Fordham University.

As former director of the University’s Regional Educational Technology Center for Professional Dr King 2008Development (RETC), and recent director of the Graduate School of Education’s program of Adult Education and Human Resource Development, King has made it her mission to help educators cope with rapid change, technological and otherwise. Her core work, founded in the principles of a theory called “transformative learning,” of which she is a major proponent, seeks to turn challenges—or “disorienting dilemmas”—into opportunities for both learning and personal growth. Transformative learning, as King puts it, “describes how people react when they come across difficult points in their life, how they cope and what they learn from it.”

And, as she is quick to emphasize, “Teachers are learners, too.”

King’s approach to adult education takes in several disciplines, most notably technology. She is a techie by nature, well versed in computing and at ease with the general onslaught of technological innovations that have changed the way we live and work in the past 15 years. The resources available at RETC reflect that: podcasts for teachers, computing testing and certification, online education, and a host of other resources devoted to helping teachers and other adults to innovate, teach, and learn. It is a source of knowledge she believes educators sorely need.

As an educator, King said, “technology will throw you into these conflicts,” posing challenges, and sometimes crises. “In the ‘70s,” she says, learning about new technologies was, “a nice thing to do. Today, it’s survival.”

King has a book out this year, Harnessing Innovative Technology in Higher Education: Access, Equity, Policy, and Instruction (Atwood, 2006), edited with Joan K. Griggs. In its conclusion, written with Susan Biro, Ed.D., associate director of RETC, King says, “In the process, we learn that the pathway [to integrating technology into higher education] is not linear, and that as we are learning about technology along the way, we are also learning about our learners, our organizations, and ourselves.” An insight that might have been gleaned from King’s own non-linear career.

There is a spiritual component to King’s work. Before she began her academic life in the early 1990s, King served as a nondenominational missionary in New England. In her research, she is keen to draw lessons from the religious and ethical traditions of many cultures. A recent article she authored looks at transformative learning from the viewpoint of Confucianism.

Her record of accomplishment since she came to Fordham in 1997 is sort of disorienting itself: she has secured, and now oversees, more than 20 grants, several million dollars worth, for the University; she has received several awards for her work in the field; she has authored dozen of articles for journals; and edited, contributed or authored dozens of books, many on technology and learning. Her latest, written with Victor Wang, Ed.D., California State University, Long Beach, Comparative Adult Education Around the Globe, includes observations of educators from Asia and the Middle East, and will be published in both Germany and China in a few weeks.

The idea of transformative learning, she said, “has been dominated by Western interpretation. We need to open it up to our colleagues around the world.”

King—who has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, a master’s in theology, and a master’s and doctorate in education—sees adult education as a perfect fit for someone like herself, naturally drawn to and inspired by a number of different ideas and disciplines. “The theme running through all these interests,” she said, “is how adults learn and change their lives.”

She also believes she ended up at the right university to undertake this work. “Fordham is a very good fit for me. They value theory and research, but also put great value on people and practice.”

Though King’s unconventional ideas have often forced her to take a radical stand with her colleagues, she remains committed to the idea of helping others learn and change for the better.

“I am not to here to promote my political view,” King said. “We are trying to provide a platform where people can step forward into their voice. Transformative learning is about opening up opportunities.”

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