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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

Photo of cover of Dr King's 2017 book "Technology and Innovation in Adult Learning"
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.

 

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