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Janet Engle

Instructional Developer

Office #: D1445
Phone #:
 708.534.4940
Fax#: 708.534.3073
email: j-engle@govst.edu
 
Experience | Professional Skills | Honors/Awards | Education 

Experience

Governors State Unversity 1994 - Current

2004 - Current: Instructional Developer
Center for Online Teaching and Learning

  • Online Course Development
  • Faculty Development
  • Faculty and student support for online teaching and learning

1994 - 2004: Special Projects Manager
College of Health and Human Services

  • Grant management
  • Grant writing
  • Traning and training development

1996 - Current: Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer

  • MHS in Addictions Studies Program
  • Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning

Previous Corporate Experience

  • Vice President of Business Systems
  • Director of Personnel and Training
  • Director of Training
  • Manager of Documentation and Training
  • Account manager
  • Systems Analyst

Professional Skills

Teaching (Current) 

  • Introduction to Online Teaching
  • Designing Online Learning

Online Course Development 

  • Four course graduate Certificate in Online Teaching 
    • Introduction to Online Teaching 
    • Facilitating Online Learning 
    • Designing Online Learning 
    • Developing Digital Content 
  • Introduction to Online Learning 
  • Drugs and Society: Controversial Issues 
  • Substance Abuse Fundamentals for Health Care Professionals 
  • Planning, Managing and Evaulating Substance Abuse Programs 
  • Content Development for Online Learning 
  • Changing Health Behaviors 
  • Introduction to Health Promotion 
  • Co-developed more than 25 other courses working with faculty content experts 

Successful Grant Submissions 

  • SKIPP (Saving Kinds through Integrated Prevention Programming) - $1 million grant from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration , author
  • Project EXPORT: Developing Infrastructure in Health Disparities Research, - $3 million grant from National Institutes of Health, co-author
  • Enhaning Nursing Practice: Substance Abuse Eduation - $500,000 grant from the Health Resources and Servicees Adminstration , co-author

Workshops 

  • Podcasting
  • Google Docs and Blogs
  • Wikis
  • WebCT course tools (multiple workshops addressing a variety of course tools) 
  • Active Collaborative Learning in Online Courses
  • Assessing Student Learning: Beyond Term Papers and Exams
  • Making Online Life Easier: Picking the Right Tool for the Job
  • Building a Learning Community
  • Creating a Learner-Centered Course

Conference Presentations 

  • 2008: Teaching MI in the University Setting and Cyberspace: MI and the Internet Meet Accepted presentation for the International Conference on Motivational Interviewing Co-presenter with Judy Lewis and Jacque Elder.
  • 2008: Integrating Media Course Content into Fully-Fully Online Courses, co-Presented with Donella Soeka at the Kentucky Educational Television pre-conference workshops on integrating media content into online courses.
  • 2007: Designing Engaging Online Courses: Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies, SLATE Midwest Blackboard Users Group
  • 2007: Teaching Clinical Skills Online: And They Said It Couldn’t Be Done. Co-presented with Judy Lewis, 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin
  • 2007: Designing Collaborative Learning Components for Online Courses. 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin
  • 2007: Beyond Bells and Whistles: The Blackboard Greenhouse
    Exemplary Course Program
    , panel presenter at BB World 2007
  • 2007: Focus on Action: Active and Collaborative Learning in Online Courses, Blackboard World 2007
  • 2007: Introduction to Online Teaching, Exemplary Course Poster Session, Blackboard World 2007
  • 2007: Teaching Clinical Skills Online: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, co-presenter with DR. Judy Lewis at BB World ‘07
  • 2007: Evaluating Exemplary eLearning – a Rubric and Associated Best Practices Poster session, 2007 Educause Learning Initiative Conference (conference proposal accepted). (Co-presenters: Dr. Deborah Everhart, Blackboard Corp., Dr. David Graf, Nova Southeastern University, and Dr. Shirley Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univeristy)
  • 2006: Developing Exemplary Courses, featured presenter, Blackboard Webinar.
  • 2006: Introduction to Online Teaching: Modeling the Use of New Technologies. IMPACT 2006, WebCT User Conference
  • 2006: Faculty Summer Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Focus on Action: Active and Collaborative Learning in Online Courses 
  • 2006: Introduction to Online Teaching, Course Design Showcase. 22 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin
  • 2006: Illinois Online Conference: Introduction to Online Learning, Preparing Students for Success in Online Courses. 
  • 2006: Multiple Cultural Identities, Self-interrogation, and the impact of oppression: Addressing It All in a Mutimedia Online Course. The 23rd Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, Columbia University (Co-presented with Dr. Judy Lewis and Rodney Bullock)
  • 2005 Midwest Regional Educause Conference: Foundations of Excellence: Support Services for Online Learning, Co-Presenter.
  • 2005 Illinois Online Conference Foundations of Excellence: Support Services for Online Learning, Co-Presenter
  • 2004: Faculty Summer Institute, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Beyond Discussion: Incorporating Active Learning Activities in Online Discussion Boards 
  • 2002: Governors State University: Developing Curriculum for Online Courses with WebCT. Eight-day training for visiting faculty from Intercollege, Cyprus (2002)
  • 2002: Drugs and Society: Enhancing Critical Thinking through Interaction and Collaboration. Course Design Showcase, 19 Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin.
  • 2002: Seventh Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference. Principal author, Online Learning Communities: A Model for Applying Tuckman's Theory of Group Development to the Design and Facilitation of Online Courses. Presentation available at http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/presentations/cessar.html  
  • 2001: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services: Issues of Diversity in Substance Use and Abuse. 4-day training for regional human service professionals. (2002)Kankakee County Social Services Consortium, Keynote speaker: Women’s Issues in Chemical Dependency 
  • 2001: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services: Screening, Assessment and Referral for Substance-Related Disorders. 4-day training for regional human service professionals.
  • 2001: Kankakee County Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Conference Speaker: Impact of Chemical Dependency on Domestic Violence(2001) 
  • 2000: Institute of Economic Technology, Joliet Junior College: Change Management, a one-day training for middle management. (2000)
  • 1997: National Association of State Agency Executives (1997). Women’s Issues in Chemical Dependency, Co-Presenter with Dr. Cheryl Mejta

Publications 

  • Training Skills for Non-Trainers. A training manual co-authored with Tom Petrasak under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Screening and Assessment for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Among Adults in the Criminal Justice System. A multi-media self-study curriculum developed under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Ethical Issues in Substance Abuse Counseling. A video-training seminar developed under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Signs and Symptoms of Substance Abuse. Manual co-authored with Dr. Edward Senay under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
  • In Our Best Interest. Monograph on implementing therapeutic communities in a prison setting, co-authored with Lou DiFonso
  • Training the Gender-Competent Substance Abuse Counselor. Co-authored training manual with Dr. Judy Lewis and Dr. Cheryl Mejta under contract with the Illinois Lieutenant Governor's Office and the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

Honors/Awards

2007 WebCT Exemplary Course Award for "Introduction to Online Learning"

2008 Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Award for "Introduction to Online Teaching"

Education

California State Universiy Eastbay, Hayward, California
M.S. Online Teaching and Learning

Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
M.A. Counsleling

Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
M.S. Addictions Studies

Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri
B.A. Psychology