Ireta's undergraduate work was in Art Education and took place at four universities (Oklahoma State , Univ of Md , Univ. of Minn . and Wayne State ). She has both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from Wayne State University. Ireta also earned a certificate in Gerontology from WSU and has become a Performance Improvement Technologist through the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI ).
Her varied career has included substitute teaching in public schools, Instructional Design of patient and staff training at a large hospital, director of training within a human services agency, teaching at the university level (Oakland University , Wayne State University , and Virginia Tech University ) and now serves as the Instructional Developer for FaCIT at Central Michigan University.
Ireta enjoys using her creative, diverse background as she works with faculty to increase innovation in the classroom.