Tod Treat, Dean of Academic Services, Parkland College, Updated April 20, 2005

Presentations

• "Riding the Fast Track to Where? Accelerated Programming in the Community College." (w/ staff from Parkland College and Joliet Junior College). ICCCA Conference, November, 2004, Chicago, IL.

• "A team-teaching model for teaching forensic science to non-majors."  18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Ames, IA (w/ Paul Sarantakos and Carrie Grimsley). July 19, 2004.

• "If it's not seat time, what is it?" A workshop for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, February, 2004.

• "Distance Learning in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education: A Comparative Study" League of Innovations 2003 Conference on Information Technology, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2003.

• "A Survey of the Use of Distance Learning in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education." League of Innovations 2003 Conference on Information Technology, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2003.

• "Alternative Delivery Strategies." A workshop for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, September, 2003.

• "The Learning College: Displaying our values."A workshop for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, (w/ Andrew Holm) September, 2002.

• "Issues in Online Learning," A guest lecture for the Illinois Online Virtual Guest Lecture Series, November 2001. 

• "Evolution of an Online Science Course," Faculty Summer Institute, Illinois Online Network, May, 2001

• "Assessing & Comparing Outcomes in a Lab-Based Science Course Delivered Traditionally and Online,"  “Best Practices: Past, Present, and Future”
  ICCFA Conference November, 2000

• "Teaching Across Different Delivery Modes: Creating Flexible Learning Spaces."  Illinois Prairie Higher Education Consortium Distance Learning Conference, Eagle Creek State Park, June 16, 2000. ("Growing Up Digital" by John Seely Brown, Change, March/April 2000)

• "Course Authoring Tools", Illinois Higher Education Distance Learning  Conference(w/ Tom Ramage), Bloomington, IL, February 5, 1999

• 14^th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning,"Teaching Information Literacy Skills in Online Courses", (with Lisa Hinchliffe, Online Coordinator, Illinois State University Library), Madison, WI, August, 1998

• Rock Valley College, "Online Course Development," (with Jim McGowan, English Faculty), Rockford, IL, January, 1998,
• National Research Council Technology Roundtable, Invited Paper (with Lisa Hinchliffe, Reference Librarian), "Classroom Technology Assessment and Research: Exploring Technology as a Learning Tool", Washington, D.C., May, 1997
• Eighth Annual Conference for College Teaching and Learning, Presented, "Development of an Online Course" , Jacksonville, FL, March, 1997
• Seventh Annual Conference for College Teaching and Learning, Presented (with Genell Hooper-Harris, Elementary Education Faculty), "Technology Integration Across Disciplines", Jacksonville, FL, March, 1996

Publications

• Benson A. D., Johnson, S. D.,  Taylor, G. D., Treat, T. E., Duncan, &J., Shinkareva, O. N. (2005). ACHIEVEMENT IN ONLINE AND CAMPUS-BASED CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (CTE) COURSES .Community College Journal of Research & Practice, 29(5), 369-394.
• Treat, T., Henry, M., & Kristovich, S. (2004). Knowledge management and the learning college. Community College Journal. 75(2): 42-47.
• Johnson, S. D., Benson A. D., Treat, T. E., Duncan, J., Shinkareva, O. N., & Taylor, G. D. (2004). Teaching skills based courses at a distance. Community College Journal. 75(2): 9-13.
• Johnson, S. D., Benson A. D., Treat, T. E., Duncan, J., Shinkareva, O. N., & Taylor, G. D. (2004). Internet-Based Learning in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education. Journal of Vocational Education Research 29(2). Published online at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JVER/v29n2/johnson.html .
• Johnson, S. D., Benson A. D., Treat, T. E., Duncan, J., Shinkareva, O. N., & Taylor, G. D. (2004). Distance Learning in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education: A comparative study of campus-based and online courses, a research project funded by the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE). Published online at http://www.nccte.org/publications/infosynthesis/r&dreport/DistLrng5_Benson/DistLrng5_Benson.html .
• Johnson, S. D., Benson A. D., Treat, T. E., Duncan, J., Shinkareva, O. N., & Taylor, G. D. (2003).Distance Learning in Postsecondary Career and Technical Education: A national survey of community colleges, a research project funded by the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE).
• Harris, Z., Rouseff-Baker, F. and Treat, T. (2002). Faculty Learners Create a Learning College. Community College Journal. 72 (5): 29-31.