Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko

PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Phone: 352-273-4176
Mailing Address: PO Box 117048, Gainesville, FL 32611-7048
Email: p.antonenko@coe.ufl.edu

Primary research area

Learning, Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Adult Education, Bilingual / Bicultural Education, Cognition, Collaboration and Teaming, Creativity, Data Collection and Analysis, ESOL, Educational / Instructional Design, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Integrated Classrooms, International Education, Language and Literacy Development, Middle School / Jr. High, Mixed Methods, Motivation, Online and Distance Education, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Research / Program Evaluation, Science Education, Stealth Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, Therapeutic Relationship

ABOUT

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Honors and Awards:
  • Visiting Professor, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique (Fall, 2011)
  • Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hewlett Packard Philanthropy, and International Society for Technology in Education Consultant, NASA INSPIRE and NASA Digital Learning Network
  • Research Excellence Award: Antonenko, P. (2007). The effect of leads on cognitive load and learning in a conceptually rich hypertext environment. Ames, IA.
  • Best Conference Paper Award: Ryan, S., Jackman, J., Antonenko, P., Kumsaikaew, P., Marathe, R., Niederhauser, D., & Ogilvie, C. (2007). Student selection of information relevant to solving ill-structured engineering economic decision problems. Proceedings of the 114th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. Honolulu, HI.
  • Best Poster Award: Antonenko P. (May, 2003). Modern computing and modern education: Teachers using open source technologies. Presented at the International Symposium on Modern Computing in Celebration of John Atanasoff’s 100th Birthday, Ames, IA.
  • Teaching Excellence Award Nominee (2003). Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

EDUCATION

  • PhD – Curriculum and Instructional Technology / Human-Computer Interaction, Iowa State University, 2007, Dissertation: The Effect of Leads on Cognitive Load and Learning in Conceptually Rich Hypertext, Advisors: Dr. Ann Thompson (Instructional Technology) and Dr. Dale Niederhauser (Human-Computer Interaction)
  • MS – Linguistics, Nizhyn Gogol State University, 1999, Thesis: Rhetorical Aspects of News Text Structure in British Broadsheet Newspapers, Advisor: Dr. Serhiy Potapenko
  • BS – Teaching of English and German Language and Literature, Nizhyn Gogol State University, 1998

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Cyber-Eye: Empowering Learning through Remote Visualizations using Unmanned Aerial Systems
Codebreakers: Cultivating Elementary Students’ Interest in Cryptography and Cybersecurity Education and Careers