Abbreviated
Curriculum Vitae
Raymond
E. Schroeder
Office of
Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
University of Illinois at Springfield
One
(217) 206-7531 fax: (217) 206-7539
schroeder.ray@uis.edu
Professional,
Administrative, and Faculty Experience
Director, Office of Technology-Enhanced
Learning,
Founded
unit in 1997 on grant from U of I Online. Initiated, facilitated and suppored
online programs and offerings (sixteen online degree programs with 1,500 student
majors, more than 9,600 online class registrations, greater than 90% course
completion rate over the past twelve months); coordinated faculty development
and training in online pedagogy and technology; promoted online program
nationally; expanded full time staff to five, plus Visiting Research Professor,
Research Specialist, and Faculty Liaison academic hourly . PI or co-PI on
more than $3,600,000 in grants for online learning initiatives from major
granting and contracting agencies including: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), University of Illinois
Online, Illinois Century Network, Illinois Board of Higher Education, SBC,
Elluminate, Sloan-Consortium, Illinois Department of Public Health, Illinois
Department of Transportation. Taught more
than 30 online class sections over the past nine years. http://otel.uis.edu/ http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinegrowth.jpg http://online.uis.edu/info
Online
Program Awards:
2008 Society of New Communications
Research Excellence Award: http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2008/11/uis-office-of-technology-enhanced.html case study: http://www.newcommreview.com/?p=1352
2008 Inaugural Ralph E. Gomory Award
for Quality Online Education: http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/2008/10/uis-wins-national-award-for-quality.html http://www.sloan-c.org/awards/2008sloan-c_awards_brochure.pdf
2007 Excellence in Institution-wide
Online Teaching and Learning Programming:
http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2007/11/sloan-consortium-award-presented.html http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/books/pdf/2007awards_complete.pdf
Individual award – 2002 Most
Oustanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual http://www.sloan-c.org/awards/awards2002.asp
Faculty
Associate, appointed to
Faculty
Fellow, Vice President for Academic Affairs Office, assigned to University of
Illinois Online (May 2000 - May 2002)
Professor
of Communication,
Director
of Television Office,
Interim
Executive Director of Institute for Public Affairs (1992-1993)
Instructor
of Radio and Television,
Part
time 1971-1975; full time 1975-1977 teaching graduate and undergraduate courses
in broadcasting, radio and television news and television news film.
Radio
News Reporter, WILL AM/FM, (1971-1975)
Selected Blogs
and Grant Projects
Web
Logs (daily publications – more than 25,000 postings since 2001)
Online
Learning Update Web Log http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html Widely-read (1,800+ RSS subscribers) and
syndicated daily update of news, research and issues in online learning. First page ranking for online learning in Google/Yahoo!
Educational
Technology Web Log http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html Widely-read (2,000+ RSS subscribers) and
syndicated daily update of news, research, and issues in educational
technology. First page ranking for educational technology in Google/Yahoo!
New Technology Web Log http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogger.html Daily postings of new and emerging
technologies related to learning dissemination
Recession
Realities Web Log http://recessionreality.blogspot.com Daily postings on impact of the recession on
higher education
Ed-Cast:
the Higher Education Podcast Repository
Funded
on a grant from the
New
Century Learning Consortium – http://nclc-online.ning.com Founded with co-PI Burks Oakley on a grant
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
NCLC is an innovative online collaboration led by UIS and including six
regional state universities located across the U.S.: Cal State Eastbay,
Southern Oregon, Southern Maine, Oakland, Chicago State, and Louisiana Tech
University
BASUAH
– Brothers and Sisters United against HIV/AIDS
Funded
on a grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health, this online project
trains college-age minority students to serve as peer mentors in the Chicago
area – in collaboration with OTEL Assoc Director Shari McCurdy
HECA:
Inter-Institutional Online Collaboration to Promote Diversity
Funded
on a grant from the Illinois Board of Higher Education Higher Education
Cooperation Act, this project promotes shared online classrooms among the
diverse campuses of
http://online.uis.edu/partners/csu/index.aspx
HECA: Increasing Retention in
Online Courses through Peer Mentoring 2007-2008
Funded on a grant from the
Illinois Board of Higher Education Higher Education Cooperation Act, this
project involved UIS training faculty and students at seven Illinois Community
Colleges on online peer mentoring.
http://www.ilcco.net/ILCCO/resources/HECAPeerMentoringFinalReport.pdf
National
Conference: PI and Chair
Online Learning in an
Emergency: Delivering the Curriculum When the Campus is Closed - New
Orleans, Louisiana - Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
September 20-22, 2006
Visiting
Scholar, University of Southern Maine 2006-2009
Three
year appointment, making periodic visits, presentations and consultations with
the administrators, faculty and staff at USM on online learning theory,
practices and research http://usmctel.blogspot.com/
Keynotes, Speeches, Presentations and Publications
Book Chapter (15) -
Semester without End: Keeping the Class Connection Open via RSS- Wired for
Learning: An Educator’s Guide to Web 2.0, pages 247–252
Copyright © 2009 by Information Age Publishing (in publication)
Program
Senior Faculty: Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning – the Pennsylvania
State University – August 10-13, 2009
April 20, 2009 – MA
in Distance Learning, University of Maryland University College, University
Park, Maryland – Five Year Program Review Visitation and Report – with Gary
Miller (the Penn State University) and Steve Tello (UMass Online Lowell)
April 17, 2009 – Illinois
Council on Continuing Higher Education Northern Conference IIT Wheaton Rice
Campus – keynote: Technologies
Transforming Teaching
April 16, 2009 – eLearning
Collaboration of Colorado Annual Conference Vail, CO – Online Higher Education in a
Recession
April 4, 2009 – UCEA Annual National
Conference Boston, MA – Technology Petting Zoo (coordinated session for
Learning, Instruction, and Technology Commission)
January 29, 2009 – University of Illinois at
Chicago eTeaching Symposium – Featured Speaker: Online Collaboration in Teaching and
Research
January 9, 2009 – UCEA Workforce
Development Forum: Preparing a Global Economy Workforce Clearwater Beach,
FL – Keynote: Technologies Transforming Workforce Development: Preparing for
the Future
January 7, 2009 – 9th
Annual University Symposium on Teaching and Learning at Illinois State
University – Early Bird Keynote: Emerging
Technologies Delivering Education to the World
November 13, 2008 - Focus
on Teaching and Technology Conference - Keynote: Transparent Technologies
Transforming Teaching - Ray
Schroeder
November 6, 2008 - Annual
ALN Conference - Beyond
Google & Yahoo: Web 2.0 Enhanced Search Engines That Will Forever Change
the Way You Search! - Maureen Yoder, Lesley University and Ray Schroeder
October 28, 2008 -
Louisiana Tech University - Second Annual Dennis E.
Minor Memorial Lecture - Quality Active Online Learning
October 17, 2008 - UCEA
West Annual Conference - Instructional Design: What Is It and Why It Matters -
Valeria Pietz (Washington State Univ) and Ray Schroeder
October 7, 2008 -
University of Southern Maine - Lewiston-Auburn College Blended Learning
Workshop - Blending for Quality
and Access
October 4, 2008 - Midwest Academy of Management - Saturday Keynote: Collaborative
Technologies for Teaching and Scholarship
October 3, 2008 - Illinois
Council on Continuing Higher Education - Opening Keynote: Emerging Technologies: Delivering
Continuing Education to the World
August 8, 2008 - Engines That Will Change the Way You
Search! 24th
Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference Madison, WI (published in proceedings)
August 8, 2008 - Web 2.0
Forum - Blogging
and Micro-Blogging – 24th
Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference Madison, WI
July 21-23, 2008 – New Century Learning Consortium – First
Annual Conference (chair)
June 20 2008 - Online Interaction and
Collaboration - University of Missouri at St. Louis Faculty Workshop
June 3, 2008 - Active Online Learning,
Making the Transition from Face-to-Face to Online Pedagogy Summer Institute -
Montclair State University
May 22, 2008 - From Active to Passive
Learning, Fairleigh Dickinson University TNT Faculty Institute
May 21, 2008 - e-Learning and Strategic
Master Plan Goals, Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board - Janet
Poley, Ray Schroeder, Muriel Oaks, Cable Green
May 8, 2008 - Desert Walk with Tech Talk
- Web 2.0, Sloan-C Emerging Online Learning Technologies Conference, Carefree,
Arizona
May 8, 2008 - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Sustain
Course Delivery When the Campus Is Closed, Sloan-C Emerging Online Learning
Technologies, Carefree, Arizona - Carrie Levin, Burks Oakley, Ray Schroeder
May 8, 2008 - Live and Learn: Campus
Closure and Academic Continuity, Sloan-C Emerging Online Learning Technologies,
Bruce Chaloux, Janet Moore, Ray Schroeder, and Don Spicer
April 18, 2008 - Telecoop Annual
Conference (Breckenridge, CO), Beyond
Google and Yahoo: Engines that Will Change the Way You Search
April 16-15, 2008 - Advanced Techniques
with Podcasting for Educators - Sloan Consortium - Burks Oakley and Ray
Schroeder
April 9, 2008 - Keynote Address, Elements of Online Success,
E-Learning Day, Northeastern Illinois State University
February
25, 2008 - Online
Higher Education,
February
22, 2008 - Keynote Presentation (via Elluminate) Moving from Passive to Active
Learning -
December
6, 2007 - Everything Online: Marketing,
Managing and Evaluating Online Programs,
November
11, 2007 - WCET Annual Conference,
October
25 - November 2, - 2008 Sloan-C Workshop Learning 2.0 - Burks Oakley and Ray
Schroeder
October
18, 2007 – Keynote: A Web 2.0 Conversation
and Dinner - UMass Lowell
October
15, 2007 – RSS
and the Endless Semester, Distance Education
Report, pages 1, 8, Volume 11, Number 20 ISSN 1094-320X
October 8, 2007 - Faculty Training
UIS/CSU/NEIU HECA - Web
2.0 -
October 3, 2007 - Web 2.0:
Perpetual Beta - Sloan-C View, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2007, ISSN
1541-2806
September 17 - Situation
Room: Preparedness in
August 10, 2007 - Semester without End:
Keeping the Connection Open via Web 2.0 - 23rd Annual Distance Teaching and
Learning Conference -
August 8, 2007 - A Web 2.0 Sampler Pre-Conference Workshop - 23rd Annual Distance Teaching and Learning conference - Madison, Wisconsin - Deb Antoine, Emily Welch, Ray Schroeder
June
28, 2007 - "Academic
Continuity in University Emergencies"
June 20-29, 2007
- Sloan Consortium Online Workshop Series Learning
Online 2.0 - Engaging, Interacting, and Syndicating Applications - Sloan Consortium - Burks Oakley and Ray Schroeder
May
16, 2007 - Keynote Address "Web 2.0: Syndicating to Enhance
Learning" 2007
Illinois Faculty Summer Institute
May 10, 2007 -
"Evolving
Technologies on the Web" - Illinois
Association of Minorities in Government - Veronica Halloway and Ray
Schroeder
May
5, 2007 - "Web 2.0:
Enhancing Engagement in Online Education" - Sloan-C View,
Volume 6 Issue 5 - May 2007 ISSN 1541-2806
April 23-25,
2007 - Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale J-School
Guest Lectures and Paul Simon Public Affairs Institute "Future of the
Media" Seminar
April 20, 2007 -
Keynote Address Syndicating Learning: Web 2.0 Connecting the
Learning Community Southern
Illinois University at Edwardsville Tech Fair
April 12, 2007 - "Online Class without an Ending: RSS Technologies Extend Class beyond the Semester" TELECOOP - Telecommunications Cooperative of Colorado Estes Park, Colorado
March 22, 2007 - "Avoiding
Disaster with the Help of Online Education" The Chronicle of Higher
Education
March 15, 2007 -
"Podcasting in Higher Education: Current Trends and Applications" Sloan Consortium Online Workshop - Burks Oakley
and Ray Schroeder
March 13, 2007 - Podcasting for
Continuing Professional Education - National Association of State Boards of
Accounting CPE Conference -
March 1, 2007 - Quality in Online
Learning -
February 27, 2007 - Community of Practice -
February 10, 2007 - "Podcasting
in Higher Ed: Reflective, Disruptive, and Evolving" - Sloan-C View,
Volume 6 Issue 2 - February 2007 ISSN 1541-2806
December 6, 2006 - Boundless
Opportunities: Online Schools and Advanced Networking Internet2 Fall Member Meeting
- Jacqueline Moloney, UMass Online; Ray Schroeder
November 13, 2006 - Weaving a Dynamic Web: Web V. 2.0
Applications in Education, Social Networking and Virtual
Conferencing American
Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium - Margaret Maag,
November 10, 2006 - Web 2.0 Technologies: Enhancing Instruction, Promoting
Collaboration, Changing Institutional Practice 12th Annual International ALN Conference - Shari McCurdy, UIS; Maureen Yoder,
November 10, 2006 - Moving
towards a Tipping Point in Online Learning 12th Annual
International ALN Conference - Claudine SchWeber, UMUC; Maureen
Yoder, Lesley Unniversity; Ray Schroeder
November 8, 2006 - Innovation to Application
Pre-Conference 12th Annual
International ALN Conference - Larry Cooperman, UC Irvine; Larry
Ragan, Penn State University; Ray Schroeder
October 20, 2006 - Online Teaching
Partnerships - SLATE
(Supporting Learning & Technology in Education) Annual Conference,
October 16, 2006 - Addressing
Diversity through Inter-Institutional Collaboration Online - Society of
College and University Planning,
September
27-29, 2006 - Retention
Strategies for Online Student Success - Vail,
September
20-22, 2006 - Online Learning in an
Emergency: Delivering the Curriculum When the Campus is Closed -
August 4, 2006 - 22nd Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference -
Ed-Cast: An international podcasting collaboration to enhance access and
knowledge - Ray Schroeder and Prof. Margaret Maag, University of San
Francisco (published in proceedings)
August 2, 2006 - 22nd Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference -
Pre-Conference Workshop - Blogging, RSS, and podcasting: Interactive online
teaching, learning, and virtual conference tools - Prof. Margaret Maag,
July 19-20, 2006 - Academic Impressions Online Workshop - "Achieving Diversity through Online Academic Collaborations"
- Ray Schroeder and
July 5, 2006 - "Podcasting
in ALN" - Sloan-C View, Volume 5 Issue 7 - July 2006 ISSN 1541-2806
June 21, 2006 - Academic Impressions Online Workshop "Syndicating the Learning Process: Pods, Blogs, Wikis and
Writely" - Ray Schroeder and
May
23, 2006 - "Syndicating
Learning through Blogs and Pods" - Illinois FSI 2006
- Ray Schroeder and Professor Michele Gribbins (UIS)
May
12, 2006 - "Blogs,
Pods and Web 2.0" -
March 7, 2006 –
Keynote address “Pods,
Blogs, and RSS: Syndicating the Learning Process” at the Maryland Distance Learning Association
Spring Conference
March
2, 2006 – Invited Presentation - Podcasting, Enhanced Podcasting
and the Higher Education Podcast Repository –
Ed-Cast –
McCurdy,
January 5, 2006
– Keynote address “Online Learning: Hyper Linking Higher Education to the Future”.
Seton
Hall University Faculty Winter Institute – Ray Schroeder and Professor
Margaret Maag,
Burks Oakley and
Ray Schroeder “Adding Clicks to Bricks.” (book chapter) Elements of Quality
Online Education: Engaging Communities, Volume 6 in the Sloan-C series 2006
Chuck Dziuban,
Joel Hartman, Mary P. Niemiec, Burks Oakley II, George Otte, Anthony G.
Picciano, and Ray Schroeder “2004 Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning in
Higher Education” (book chapter) Engaging Communities: Wisdom from the Sloan
Consortium 2005
November 19,
2005 – “Inter-Institutional
Collaborations Using Online Learning Technologies” Eleventh
Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks
–
November 4. 2005
– Keynote address “Harvesting the Promise of Distance Learning: Emerging Trends
and Practices” – 13th Annual American Association for Collegiate
Independent Study – Ray Schroeder
August 5, 2005 –
“Inter-institutional
collaboration in the delivery of online learning”
– 21st
Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference – Shari McCurdy and Ray
Schroeder (published in
proceedings)
July 27, 2005 –
“Inter-institutional Online Class-Sharing to Promote Diversity” Syllabus
2005,
June 29, 2005 –
“Achieving Diversity through Online Inter-institutional
Collaborations” – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
ED-Media 2005 World
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications,
Montreal, Quebec – Shari McCurdy and Ray Schroeder (published in proceedings)
June 7, 2005 –
keynote address “Blogs, Wikis, and Musings on the Future of Online Learning” –
Governor’s
State University Faculty Summer Institute
April 17 – 19,
2005 – “Blended Learning Research Roundtable” Sloan-C Invitational
Workshop on Blended Learning
March 25, 2005
Invited speech – “Web and the 21st Century University”
March 23, 2005 –
“Weblogs and RSS: Tools for
Information Dissemination”
March 22,
2005 – “Inter-Institutional Class Collaborations Online”
November 12-14,
2004 - “Panel: The
November 9-10,
2004 - “Internet for Administrators:” Illinois Education
and Technology Conference,
October 20, 2004 - “State of Online Learning at the University of Illinois” – First Annual UIUC Campus Retreat on Online Learning - Allerton, Monticello, IL
October 15, 2004
– “Disseminating Best Practices and News in Online Learning “ Second
Annual Slate Conference
June 22-23,
2004, Invited Presentation “Online Learning – Planning, Practice and Pedagogy”
May 25, 2004 –
keynote address “Changing
Age-Old Assumptions in Higher Education” at the Faculty
Summer Institute,
April 26-28,
2004 – Sloan-C
Invitational Workshop on Blended Learning and Higher Education, UIC,
April 21, 2004 –
EDUCAUSE
Midwest ,
April
1, 2004 – “Blogging in Online
Learning and Professional Development” Catch
the Technology Wave – UT,
February 23 –
27, 2004 – University of Wisconsin Distance Education Certificate Program
– Web Logs and Distance Education
August 15, 2003
– “Blogging
to Disseminate Best Online Learning Practices and Technology News” 19th
Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning (published in proceedings)
August, 2003 –
Keynote Address – Cyber Camp 2003 at
“Blogging
Online News and Research,” Journal
of Asynchronous Learning Networks,
July 2003, vol. 7, issue 2 ISSN 1092-8235
June, 2003 –
Educause Southeast Conference: “Creating a Campus Technology Blog”
January 9, 2003
– Teaching Effectiveness Institute: Interactive Methods of Teaching – Northern
“One Path to the Blog: An Odyssey in Tracking and Sharing Technology with the Online Higher Education Community,” ACM eLearn Magazine, June, 2003
December 10,
2002 – Challenging Your Gifted Students through the Internet – Illinois Gifted
Education Conference
October 23, 2002
– Internet
Update for Administrators –
October 9, 2002
-- , 21st Century Education: When the campus comes to the student
rather than the student to the campus – UIS Alumni
Association “Taste of UIS” Lecture Series
April 18, 2002 –
Sloan-C
Visit to William Rainey Harper College
February 14,
2002 –
September 19,
2001 – Future
Trends in Education Technology -- Illinois Office of Educational Services
Advisory Council
August 17, 2001
-- Policies
and Practices for Successful Scaling of Online Learning Programs – Annual
Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison –
Ray Schroeder/Harry Berman (published in
proceedings)
May 9, 2001 –
Invited Speech - Interacting with
Online Students –
May 8, 2001 – Transition from On
Campus to Online Learning –
February 22-23, 2001 – Sloan-C Visit to St. Cloud State University
“Institutional
Infrastructure Support for Online Learning,” Journal of Metropolitan Universities, Winter 2001, Vol. 12, number 1
“Online
Classes Are Mainstream…,” On Campus, March, 2001
November
16, 2000 – Preparing
Students for Online Success – Illinois Council of Community College Administrators – Ray
Schroeder/Burks Oakley
October
19, 2000 – Online
Higher Education –
October
17, 2000 – Internet
for Administrators – Illinois
Education and Technology Conference
September
21, 2000 – Invited Speech – The New Media –
March
31, 2000 – Invited Speech - Online Learning in Higher Education –
February
18, 2000 – Validating
Internet Sites & Challenging
Gifted Students – Cicero Public Schools Dist. 99
December
8, 1999 – Internet and the Gifted -- Illinois Gifted Education
Conference
October
1, 1999 --
“Review of
May
20, 1999 –
March
25, 1999 – CIHEC Designing Intstruction to Meet Students’ Needs – “Integrating
Technology into Instructional Design “
February 5,
1999 – Teaching and Learning Using the Internet-Distance Learning Conference –
“ Political
Science Online – Roundtable”
Integrating Internet into the Rural K-12 Library (book chapter), Wired Together: The Online Classroom in K-12, Hampton Press, 1998, Zane Berge/Mauri Collins, eds.
“Online
Higher Education Notebook,”
(Destination Illinois Award, October 1998)
“The $2,500
Paper Weight,” On Campus, February
1997
“Cyberlinking
to Students,” On Campus, December/January
1996
“
“The
Cable/College Connection: A White Paper,”
National
“Cable
Operator/City Hall Relationship:A Symbiosis,”
Great Lakes Cable Conference,
“The Promise
and Responsibility of the Information Age,”
Commencement Address,
“Computer
Conferencing: Exploding the Classroom Walls,”
T.H.E. Journal, February, 1981, volume 6, Number 2
November 1980
“The Global Village through CAI,”
Computerized Language Instruction Consortium Conference at
“Up Link to the
Future:Teaching Broadcasting in the Future Tense,” Feedback (BEA Quarterly), August 1978, pp. 22-23
Recognition
Visiting Scholar – University of Southern Maine
August, 2006-2009
Sloan-C “Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN” award, 2002 ALN International
Conference, Orlando, FL November 8, 2002
Sloan-Consortium “Distinguished Scholar
in Online Learning 2001-2003”
Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in Education
Commencement Speaker SSU 1984 – selected by students to deliver commencement
addresss
UIS Employee of the Year 2000
Education
M.S.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972
A.B. Augustana College, Speech, 1970
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