About the Presenters
Dr. Vickie Cook
Dr. Vickie Cook is the Director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) and Associate Research Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Springfield.
Dr. Cook has been actively engaged providing consulting and faculty development with educational leaders across the U.S. and in Mexico. Her work has been published in a variety of national educational publications. She worked as part of a team that authored the UPCEA (University Professional & Continuing Education Association) Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership. She teaches online in the Masters of Arts in Education graduate degree program at University of Illinois Springfield.
Her current research agenda focuses on two areas: (1) exploring learning and professional development through a heutagogical lens and (2) the impact of a systems approach for online leadership.
Dr. Cook has served on several regional and national committees, as well as having been a long time member of Illinois Council on Continuing Higher Education (ICCHE) serving in multiple roles on the Executive Board and currently serves as Past-President of the organization; serves in the capacity of Online Learning Strategist for the University Professionals & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA); serves as a mentor for the Association for Continuing and Higher Education (ACHE); is a member of the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and serves on program steering committees for the UPCEA Annual Conference and OLC Annual Conference.
Dr. Cook curates top articles in online learning, online leadership, and pedagogy that she shares on LinkedIn and Twitter daily. Follow her on Twitter @DrVickieCook.
Dr. Cook's presentations are available at http://go.uis.edu/Cook
Dr. Cook teaches for the Department of Educational Leadership at UIS.
Ray Schroeder
Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus, Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield and Director of the Center for Online Leadership at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). Each year, Schroeder publishes and presents nationally in online and technology-enhanced learning. Ray publishes five daily blogs on various aspects of news, research, and trends in technology-enhanced learning in higher education.
He is the recipient of the 2002 Sloan-C award for the “Most Outstanding Achievement in ALN by an Individual,” University of Southern Maine “Visiting Scholar in Online Learning” 2006-2009 and inaugural 2010 recipient of the Sloan Consortium's highest Individual award - the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award. Ray received the 2011 University of Illinois Distinguished Service Award. He is an inaugural Sloan Consortium Fellow, the 2012 Innovation Fellow for Digital Learning by the UPCEA, 2014 Illinois Council of Continuing Higher Education Past President's Award for Service, the 2016 United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame Award, and the University of Wisconsin Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Excellence in Distance Education Award 2016.
Follow him on Twitter @RaySchroeder.
Ray's Presentations: https://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder
Phil Vandiver
Phil has produced video for over 25 years, starting in television, and then independently for numerous corporations and educational institutions. He works as a complete producer by writing, shooting, and editing the videos he creates.
As an educator, Phil has developed curriculum and delivered courses in flipped, hybrid and fully online course formats for 15 years. Early on, he worked with his college IT staff to develop a video streaming server and deliver video content for online and hybrid courses. Phil also serves on the college's Online Learning/Instructional Technologies Advisory Team to help set the strategies to successfully implement technology at the college.
Dr. Vance S. Martin
Vance joined COLRS in 2017. For over fifteen years he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in history, humanities, education and technology. He has taught using in-person, online, and hybrid formats. He has over ten years of experience in curriculum and instructional design.
Vance’s research looks at technology use in education, social justice, and the intersection of the two. His dissertation project used wikis in community college history classes, which he found encouraged students to question standard historical narratives and created an environment in which minority students felt represented and engaged. As a post-doc at the University of Illinois, he worked on the redesign of teacher education programs in the College of Education, and helped to develop a leadership training program in partnership with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He also worked on a collaborative international project to deliver educational content to secondary students in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, via cell phones.