Originally published in part by UGA Today.

Faculty members Aliki Nicolaides from the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s Department of Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development, and Janette Hill, from the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology, have been honored with UGA’s Outstanding Mentoring Award.

Hill teaches in the online Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Learning, Design, and Technology, the Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Learning, Design, and Technology – Instructional Technology, and the Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Learning, Design & Technology – Instructional Design & Development programs, among others, while Nicolaides teaches in the online Master of Learning, Leadership & Organization Development.

The Outstanding Mentoring Award recognizes excellence across a range of mentoring roles and responsibilities. It is designed to encourage and reward innovation and effectiveness in mentoring graduate students throughout their academic experience. Two awards are presented each year to current members of the Graduate Program Faculty, with categories rotating annually across disciplinary areas.

Aliki Nicolaides

Aliki Nicolaides is a professor of adult learning and leadership in the Learning, Leadership and Organization Development program. Her research explores the intra-active dynamics of learning that generate both personal and societal transformation, with a focus on how learning activates the vital connections between self and society.

Her work centers on creating tools and scaffolds that build individual and collective capacity for inquiry and action. She is co-founder of the Generative Learning and Complexity Laboratory, which brings together scholars and practitioners to rethink learning and development through the lens of complexity and generative knowledge. Her scholarship has contributed to what she describes as Generative Knowing, a philosophical approach to adult learning that emphasizes ways of being and becoming that unlock creative potential. Nicolaides also serves as a founding steward and current president of the International Transformative Learning Association.

Janette Hill

Janette Hill is a professor in both the School of Medicine’s Department of Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences and the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s Learning, Design, and Technology program. Her research focuses on learner-centered environments grounded in a social constructivist framework.

Hill has conducted research and evaluation on millions of dollars in funded projects from local and national organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, local school systems, the UGA School of Medicine, the AU/UGA Medical Partnership, and private industry partners. For more than a decade, her work has focused on medical education and resilience across formal and informal learning environments. She also collaborates across interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research teams with faculty and students throughout the university.