The Northern Illinois University Team
Team Sponsor: Margaret (Peggy) Bailey
Peggy has been teaching courses in instructional design and performance
technology at Northern Illinois University for three years. Prior to NIU,
she spent six years as an instructional designer in business and industry.
She developed and is currently teaching the Advanced Instructional Design
course for NIU's masters and doctoral students in Instructional Technology.
Margaret's research interests include distance education, streamlining
instructional design, and models for problem-based/action learning.
Write to Peggy at
pbailey@niu.edu.
Chuck Ennis
Chuck is currently pursuing a doctorate in instructional technology at Northern Illinois University. While serving on active duty in the United States Navy, he is designing CBT applications for the navy at its basic training center in Great Lakes, Illinois. He received a master's degree in management and a masteržs degree in human resource development from Webster University.
Write to Chuck at
quantcal@aol.com.
Robert Renk
Robert is a Masters candidate in the Instructional Technology program at
NIU. He works as the Business Manager for the NIU Alumni Association and
manages the Alumni world-wide-web home page. He received his B.S. from NIU
in 1987 in Management with a concentration in Human Resource Management. He
worked for six years as a sales manager in the midwest and in the
Washington, D.C. area. He spent two and one-half years working in the
Alumni Career Counselor for NIU. His interests are in CBT and user
interface design.
Write to Robert at
rrenk@niu.edu.
Jeff Salus
Jeff is an I.T. master's candidate in Instructional Technology at Northern
Illinois University. Jeff has his Bachelor's degree in Communications. He
spent the past year as an independent training consultant and recently
joined Whittman-Hart, Inc., in Chicago.
Write to Jeff at
dogtag@niu.edu.
Mary Samardzija
Mary Samardzija is currently working on a doctorate degree in Adult
Education with a cognate in Instructional Technology. Her program focus is
in Human Resource Development. She has a Masters degree in Adult Education
from Northern Illinois University and a Masters in Computer Education from
National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. Prior to her graduate
studies, she taught Social Studies at the high school and middle school
levels for a total of 12 years. More recently she has worked as an
instructional designer and trainer for Commonwealth Edison (electric utility
company). Research interests include action-reflection-learning, accelerated
learning, quality of worklife, and learning communities or learning
organizations.
Write to Mary at
msamard@aol.com.
Catherine Schmitt
Catherine is a doctoral candidate in Instructional Technology at NIU. She
has been a trainer at ComEd and is currently a full-time instructional
designer for Ameritech, a telecommunications company in the midwest.
Write to Catherine at
CATHERINE.A.SCHMITT@x400gw.ameritech.com.
Carl Wrede
Carl will graduate in the summer of 1997 with his Masters degree in
Instructional Technology from NIU. Currently, Carl is employed as an intern
at ComEd in Oak Brook, Illinois where he is involved with management and
evaluation of vendor-delivered training programs. Carl's long term
employment goals include performance consulting or instructional design. He
and his wife, Jodi, have an eight-month-old son named Jack and they live in
Bensenville, Illinois.
Write to Carl at
truckwrede@aol.com.
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