Dr. Karen Wilson Scott
Dr. Scott brings to Human Resource Training and Development a background which includes 28 years in corporate communications and education at the Idaho National Laboratory. Dr. Scott’s teaching expertise in adult teaching and learning, focusing on learner-centered teaching and self-directed learning, combines her higher education background in adult education with her industry background in organizational learning.
In addition to teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, Dr. Scott advises theses and dissertations and maintains an active research agenda, publishing and presenting papers nationally and internationally emphasizing: adult learning, autodidactic and self-directed learning, congruous autonomy, self-assessment, organizational learning communities, and qualitative research methods. She also teaches summer pre-service classes for professional-technical teachers through the Idaho State Division of Professional-Technical Education. Dr. Scott serves as a managing editor of The Qualitative Report (a peer-reviewed international online journal), and on the editorial review boards of two other peer-reviewed journals, the International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, and the Journal of Adult Education. She is an active member of the International Society of Self-Directed Learning, the American Society of Training and Development, the Mountain Plains Adult Education Association, the Idaho Lifelong Learning Association, and other professional organizations in adult education.
Karen Wilson Scott
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
B.A. 1974, Linfield College
M.Ed. 1999, University of Idaho
Ph.D. 2002, University of Idaho