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FACULTY
Michael Dieter, MLIS, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Mike Dieter was first exposed to health informatics as a graduate student studying information science. He became intrigued by the diverse ways in which information can be used to reduce risk in decision making. After finishing that degree, he sought out an information science program specific to healthcare, which led him to UIC. As a graduate student here, Mike worked with Annette Valenta, the founder of UIC's health informatics program, helping her to transform classroom courses into an online curriculum. He joined the HI faculty in 2001. In his current doctoral studies, Mike's practical experience in curriculum development for e-learning underscores his dissertation, "Transformative Distance Learning: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Perspective Change in Adult Learners."
Mike received a master of business administration in 2000 from UIC, a master of library and information science in 1997 from Dominican University in River Forest, Ill., and a bachelor's degree in biology in 1973 from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill. He is finishing his doctorate in the UIC College of Education's program in curriculum studies and plans to defend his dissertation in 2008.
Areas of interest
- Curriculum development, design and evaluation in adult distance learning
- Social informatics
- Information literacy: the ability to use technology to locate, evaluate and apply information
- Systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis
