Anastasia Trekles, M.S.

Clinical Assistant Professor,
Instructional Technology
Graduate Studies in Education

Anastasia (Staci) Trekles is a clinical assistant professor serving in the Graduate Studies in Education Department at Purdue University Calumet. Her specialty area is instructional technology, having received her Masters degree in this field in 2006. Staci has taught a number of courses, both in-classroom and via distance education, over the past eight years at Purdue Calumet, including EDCI 260, Introduction to Computers in Education, EDCI 566, Hypermedia Applications in Education, EDCI 575 Foundations of Distance Education, EDCI 591C, Advanced Web Design, and EDCI 591X, Human Issues in Technology. The basis for this latter course provides the content for her book, Putting People First: Human Issues in Instructional Technology, published in November, 2009.

Staci has an extensive background with computers and computer-based technologies of many types, and often conducts workshops for practicing teachers in schools throughout Northwest Indiana, as well as at statewide conferences like the Hoosier Education Computer Coordinators (HECC) and Indiana Computer Educators (ICE) Conferences. Having been a regular attendee and presenter at ICE for several years, Staci is proud to have been named to the ICE Board as the Marketing Director, beginning in 2008.

For more information about ICE, including the ICE annual conference for educators across the state of Indiana, visit http://www.iceindiana.org. Staci also teaches many courses for educators and others seeking to renew professional licenses or simply to learn something new, all of which are taught online as independent study. If you are interested in license renewal through Purdue Calumet, please visit our Licensing website.