Job Title: Research Assistant, Interdisciplinary R&D team
•  Provide expertise in human computer interaction, usability, and instructional design for the project “Online Environment for Multifaceted Problem-Solving Development.”
•  Evaluate the online environment from the perspectives of graphic design, instructional design, and web programming.
•  Develop scaffolding for online problem-solving cases for ISU’s courses in Engineering, Physics, Biology, and History.
•  Extend the use of the software by publicizing it through professional conferences.  

Job Title: Grant Reviewer, Consultant
•  Evaluate projects for technology integration in K-12 and higher education (US and international submissions).
•  Provide feedback on the quality of proposals to both the applicants and the funding agency.

Job Title: Teaching Assistant, Technology, Globalization & Culture
•  Assist course instructors in developing curriculum for this innovative course that bridges engineering, science, and humanities, and is offered in the traditional as well as distance education format.
•  Provide technical support for the course’s speakers like CEO’s of Lockheed Martin, Rockwell-Collins, Dow Jones, Caterpillar, CIO of the NSF, former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, computer visionary Ray Kurzweil, etc.
•  Design and maintain a learning environment in WebCT for the course’s 150 students.
•  Promote the course’s visibility via blog, iTunes, and website. www.theglobalpost.com, www.ede.iastate.edu/itunes.asp.

Job Title: Research Assistant, VR4U (NSF-funded project)
•  Design activities and assess effectiveness of the VR tool developed as part of the project “Integrating Low-Cost Virtual Reality into Design and Technical Graphics Curricula”.
•  Conduct literature review on development of the spatial ability of young engineers.
•  Maintain the project website. www.vrclassroom.org.
•  Organize and implement VR4U summer camp that introduces high school students to virtual reality and industrial systems engineering. 

Job Title: Research Assistant, Office of the Vice-Provost for Research
•  Develop and maintain websites: ISU Research and Fiscal Compliance, Funding Opportunities, National Research Council PhD Ranking Project.
•  Assess effectiveness of ISU’s internal research grants. Collect and analyze the data on outcomes.
•  Evaluate ISU’s grant writing programs.

Job Title: Teaching Assistant, Curriculum and Instruction
•  Teach Introduction to Instructional Technology (CI 201), 2 laboratory sections. Responsible for all aspects of recitation, including preparing and presenting class demonstrations, practicing problems, answering questions and explaining concepts, grading papers and exams, and assigning grades.
•  Redesign and maintain the course website.

Job Title: Research Assistant, Curriculum and Instruction
•  Assisted faculty with the management of “Innovation in Higher Education”, a $300,000 grant.
•  Participated in the organization of the 2001 Summer Academy, C&I, ISU. Conducted a workshop on online video conferencing.

Job Title: Assistant Professor, English Philology
•  Taught a number of courses: Practical English (juniors, seniors); Business English (seniors); English Stylistics (seniors); Theoretical Grammar (juniors); British/American/Australian Studies (seniors).
•  Supervised student teachers (juniors, seniors).
•  Conducted research: rhetoric structure of newspaper texts; translation of cross-cultural phenomena in the prose of bilingual writers; stylistic interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”.
•  Translated/interpreted for the University administration.
•  Coordinated several Peace Corps projects.

Job Title: Teacher of English and German language/literature
•  Taught English language and literature to high school sophomores.
•  Taught German language and literature to high school juniors.
•  Organized and coordinated activities of the contemporary English literature club

Research Interests:

•  Psychophysiological measurement and optimization of learners’ cognitive processing in computer-assisted learning.
•  Cognitive load and cognitive flexibility in hypermedia learning environments.
•  Web design as a tool of developing creative and problem solving skills.
•  Design of web-based learning environments.
•  Open source software to support educational practice and research.

Publications and Conference Presentations:

Antonenko, P. (2006). Open Source in Computer-Assisted Learning: Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. Accepted for publication in Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

Saunders, K., Smith, S., Antonenko, P., Green, T., Peterson, N., Thompson, A. Experiences in Virtual Reality in Classroom for Future Workforce Preparation. Accepted for publication in Journal of Engineering Education.

Antonenko, P. (2006). Exploring Relationships Among Preservice Teachers’ Views of Creativity and Web Design: Implications for Advanced Learning. Under review in Journal of Advanced Academics.

Antonenko, P. (2006). A Novel Approach to Dynamic Assessment of Users’ (Pre)Conscious Information Processing in HCI Interfaces: Neural Oscillations and Electroencephalogram. To be presented at 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). San Jose, April 28-May 3, 2007.

Ryan, S., Antonenko, P., Jackman, J., Kumisaikaew, P., Marathe, R., Niederhauser, D., & Ogilvie, C. (2006). Student Selection of Information Relevant to Solving Ill-Structured Engineering Economic Decision Problems. To be presented at the 114th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Honolulu, June 24-27, 2007.  

Niederhauser, D., & Antonenko, P. (2006). Solution Strategies of More and Less Successful Problem Solvers in an Online Problem-based Learning Environment. To be presented at 2007 Conference of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, April 9-13, 2007.

Antonenko, P. (2006). Ill-Structured Problem Solving Online: Design and Implementation of a Learner- and Instructor-Friendly Learning Portal. Proceedings of the 2007 World Conference on E-Learning. Honolulu, Hawaii October 13-17, 2006.

Antonenko, P., & Thompson, A. (2006). Exploring Relationships Among Preservice Teachers’ Views of Creativity and Web Design. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the American Educational Research Association. 142-143.

Antonenko, P. (2005). Considering the Learner in Educational Hypermedia Design: Cognitive Load or Cognitive Flexibility? Iowa State University Human Computer Interaction Technical Report ISU-HCI-2005-02.

Antonenko, P., Toy, S., & Niederhauser D. (2004). Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment: What Open Source Has To Offer.  Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. 140.

Antonenko, P., & Udin, V. (2004). International Collaboration in Open Source Software Development: Implications for Enhancing Educational Practice. World Conference on E-Learning in Corp., Govt., Health, & Higher Education, 1, 1058-1061.

Antonenko P. (2004). Modular-Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment: Open Source in Education. Human-Computer Interaction Forum – Designing Interaction, Ames, IA.

Antonenko P. (2003). Modern Computing and Modern Education: Teachers Using Open Source Technologies. The International Symposium on Modern Computing in Celebration of John Atanasoff’s 100th Birthday, Ames, IA.

Antonenko, P. (2003). Add Interactivity to Your Online Courses and Projects: A Guide to Designing Discussion Forums, Quizzes, Surveys, Forms. Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference, 1, 230-232.

Antonenko P., Kladynoha V., Kovalchuk Yu. (2002). Virtual Online Laboratory in a K-12 Science Classroom. 2nd International Congress on Information Technology in Contemporary Society, Kiev, Ukraine.

Antonenko P. (2001). Problems of Translating Cross-Cultural Phenomena (based on auto translations by J.Brodski and V.Nabokov). International Conference on the Problems of Comparative Semantics. Kiev, Ukraine.

Antonenko P. (2000). Tirpitz Versus Varyah in J.Brodski’s Auto Translation. Problems of Comparative Semantics, 5, 358-362.

Antonenko P. (1999). Overcoming Communication Barriers between Students and Teacher in an EFL Classroom. Nizhynskiy Visnyk, 48, 18-32.

Antonenko P. (1999). Rhetorical Aspects of News Text Structure in British Broadsheet Newspapers. Master’s Thesis. Nizhyn, Ukraine.

Antonenko P. (1999). Rhetoric Structure of News Text Headlines in British Broadsheet Newspapers. Journal of the Nizhyn Research Society, (3), 8-18.

•  American Educational Research Association (AERA)
•  Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)
•  Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
•  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

•  Administration of operating systems(Unix-based OS’s; Microsoft Windows™ 2000, XP; Macintosh™ OS 9, X).

•  Office applications (Sun Microsystems Open Office™; Microsoft Office™).

•  Graphic User Inteface design (Adobe Photoshop™, Illustrator™, InDesign™; Macromedia Freehand™, Fireworks™, Flash™).

•  Web design (Macromedia Dreamweaver™, Adobe GoLive™).

•  Web scripting (PHP, JavaScript, XML, CSS, HTML, DHTML).

•  Relational database management (MySQL, mSQL, Microsoft Access™).

•  Participated in the design, localization, and publicizing of Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment). www.moodle.org.
•  Participated in the design, localization, and publicizing of XOOPS (Extensible Object Oriented Portal System). www.xoops.org.
•  Provided expert feedback to designers of PHP Webquest. www.phpwebquest.org.

•  Developed and am refining a website for researchers, designers, and practitioners interested in cognitive load issues. www.cognitiveload.org
•  Developed a communication portal for the HCI Graduate Student Seminar. www.hci.iastate.edu/seminar
•  Designed visual identity and a website for ISU’s Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH). www.iastate.edu/~ceah/about.html
•  Developed a website for ISU – Ukraine collaboration initiative. www.ukraine.iastate.edu
•  Designed a website for the Dean’s International Leadership Seminar in Austria and Australia. ISU, College of Education.
•  Created a web-based conference management application for the International Conference on Innovation in Higher Education (ICIHE).
•  Developed an interactive website for ISU’s Design of Teaching and Learning Environments course (CI 503).