More summer travel updates from staff and faculty

Sandra Daffron, Associate Professor and Director of the Continuing and College Education Master’s Program for Woodring College of Education combined a family vacation to Europe with the opportunity to present her research on Transfer of Learning to professors of higher education at Downing College, Cambridge University, England. 

Over a 5-year period , Daffron and students from the CCE program and previous Adult Education master’s program, surveyed 500 professionals from 17 professional groups about their learning methods and how they transfer new information to their jobs. 

Daffron and Mary North, graduate of the Adult Education program, have written a book based on the research, Successful  Transfer of Learning.  The book is due to be published early 2010 by Krieger Publishing. Daffron, North, and another graduate of the Adult Education program, Gail Goulet, presented their research at Cambridge University in early July.  

Goulet, a doctoral candidate at University of Glasgow, Scotland, invited Daffron to present the research at U of Glasgow following the Cambridge presentation; in the photo at right, North and Goulet stand outside Cambridge University.

The three-week European vacation included time exploring Italy, England, Scotland and Ireland.  Daffron and her husband brought along her daughter and 2 grandsons for a week in Italy.  

The trip was a fantastic trip and Daffron recruited several colleagues from U of Glasgow to come to Bellingham for the Oct. 23-25 Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults to be held on the WWU campus.

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