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Jaclyn Dudek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Teaching and an Assistant Research Professor at the Achievement & Assessment Institute at The University of Kansas. Her work integrates educational technology, place-based learning, and critical pedagogy to reimagine teaching and learning landscapes. She explores innovative uses of telepresence robotics, augmented reality, and creative placemaking to enhance learning experiences in diverse settings.
Research interests include curriculum design, teacher education, spatial policy analysis, and the intersection of technology with environmental and cultural contexts. She emphasizes equity in instructional design through feminist and critical theory frameworks, while advancing methods for visualizing qualitative data and fostering identity-centered online environments.
Her publications highlight trends in combining physical and virtual spaces for education, leveraging university arboretums as dynamic learning partners, and designing task-oriented language learning tasks using telepresence. These studies underscore her commitment to bridging theoretical research with practical educational innovations.
Dr. Dudek collaborates across disciplines, engaging in projects that connect community spaces with educational goals. Current efforts focus on competency mapping in teacher education and policy research that considers spatial dimensions of educational equity. She is actively involved in developing assessment frameworks aligned with evolving pedagogical practices.
