• Post-Secondary Teaching, Technical Education Program, College of Education, The University of Akron, Summer 2001
• Instructional Design, Svenson and Wallace, Inc., Naperville, Illinois, Summer 1994
• Performance Technology, University of Sales Excellence, AT&T, Cincinnati, Ohio, Spring and Summer 1993
• Placement Counseling, Career Planning and Placement Center, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1992
  
• Career Counseling, Counseling and Student Development Center, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1991 and Spring 1992
  
• Career Planning Outreach, Office of Student Housing Services, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1991

Teaching and Learning with Technology

• Crossroads Online Institute (2005, Spring Online). Funds for Improvement in Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), Georgetown University
• Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream (2004 Summer Online). Online Research Workshop, The Sloan Consortium
• Bridging Communities of Research and Practice to Transform Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Focus Session/Workshop (2004 Summer), National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), EDUCAUSE, Santa Monica, California
  
• Empowering Institutional Communities of Practices to Transform Teaching and Learning, Online Spring Focus Session/Workshop (March 17 to April 7, 2004), National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), EDUCAUSE

Developing Literacy and Technology Integration

• Writing and Technology: A Professional Writing Retreat (2005, August). National Writing Project, Nebraska City, Nebraska
• 3rd Technology Matters: Advanced Institute for Technology Liaisons (2005 July), National Writing Project (NWP), Huntington, West Virginia
• 2nd Technology Matters: Advanced Institute for Technology Liaisons (2004 July), National Writing Project (NWP), Huntington, West Virginia
• Invitational Summer Institute on Writing and Teaching of Writing (June 9 to July 3, 2003), National Writing Project at FGCU, Fort Myers, Florida
• Teaching English as a Second Language and Beginning Literacy Instruction Workshops (Summer 1987), International Catholic Migration Commission, Bataan and Baguio City, Philippines

Faculty Development

• Clinical Educator Training (2006, September). College of Education, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida
• Grantsmanship Training Program (February 9 to 13, 2004), The Grantsmanship Training Center, Inc., Los Angeles, California and Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida
• Problem-Based Learning (Summer 1998), Course and Faculty Development, Office of Instructional Technology, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida
• Research Seminar for Graduate Students on Qualitative Methods (March 1997), Division J Postsecondary Education, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

Graduate studies at NIU had been supported by graduate research and staff assistantships from 1990 to 1997 in the College of Education and other university departments or units.

• Graduate Staff Assistant, Counseling Program, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education, College of Education, August 1990 to May 1992
• Graduate Research Assistant, Research and Training Center for Traditionally Underserved Persons Who Are Deaf, June 1992 to January 1993
• Graduate Staff Assistant, Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies, College of Education, January 1996 to March 1997
• Graduate Career Counselor, Counseling and Student Development Center, Fall 1995
• Graduate Research Assistant, Instructional Technology Program, Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies, College of Education, January 1995 to August 1995
• Graduate Residence Hall Advisor, Neptune Residence Hall, Office of Student Housing Services, August 1993 to December 1994