A Record of Leadership in Technology and Online Learning

 

1984 Commencement Address 

 

http://webcast.uis.edu/impatica/OTEL/Ray.html 

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2016 Keynote Rutgers Online Learning Conference “Students at the Center: Redefining Higher Education” 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CXPSCkNCX0&feature=youtu.be

Brief Bio

Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus, Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) and Senior Fellow, Founding Director of the National Council for Online Education at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA).  Each year, Schroeder publishes articles / book chapters and presents nationally on emerging topics in online and technology-enhanced learning.  Ray’s social media publications daily reach more than 12,000 professionals. Schroeder leads an online program with 25 graduate and undergraduate degrees and numerous certificates.  He is the 2010 inaugural recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Online Leadership Award, 2011 recipient of the University of Illinois Distinguished Service Award, the United States Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame Award 2016, and the American Journal of Distance Education/University of Wisconsin Wedemeyer Excellence in Distance Education Award 2016.​

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Recent Presentations

• New Emerging Technology in Continuing and Online Ed
• New UIS New Faculty Teaching Academy: Teaching for Tomorrow
• New Technology Should You Keep Your Eye On (with Jason Rhode)
• New Teaching Professor Emerging Online Technologies
• New Wisconsin UWEX Best Practices
• New The Future of Jobs and Job Training (Pew Internet invited expert contribution - May 3, 2017)
• New Understanding the Faculty Role in Accessibility (Invited expert essay Inside Higher Ed - Digital Learning - March 15, 2017)
• New UNMC and Medical Artificial Intelligence
• New Active Blending for Engagement (Northwestern University)
• New Embarking on Online Teaching
• New Aspiring to Excellence - UPCEA Hallmarks
• New Emerging Online Learning Technologies
• New Perspectives on Digital Integration Approaches
• New Co-author with Vickie Cook, chapter in Change We Must: Deciding the Future of Higher Education (RosettaBooks)
• New Hallmarks Workshop (stand-in for Vickie Cook)
• New Crisis in Illinois Higher Education (ICCHE Pre-Conference)
• Student at the Center Online - Keynote Rutgers Online Conference
• Rutgers Speech Video
• University Partnership for Online Strategies - Syracuse
• Online Leadership Workshop with Vickie Cook
• Assuring Quality in Online Learning
• Continuing Education / Community Engagement (U Utah)
• Technologies Enable Policies, Practices, Pedagogy (ICCET/ICCHE)
• Brief Perspectives on Social Constructivist Online Learning
• Orientation to Online Learning
• Future of Online Learning (and data-informed education)
• Book chapter co-authored on Alternative Models of MOOCs
• Chapt co-authored with Dr. Vickie Cook Centennial Conversations
• TwitterChat #higheredahead 
• Storify transcript of TwitterChat 5/27/15
• UNMC Technologies Putting the Student at the Center
• Student at the Center 
• Innovative Pedagogies and Practices for Student Success Wrkshop
• Building New Online Programs (with Dr. Vickie Cook)
• Online Leadership in 2015 (with Dr. Vickie Cook)
• Emerging Technologies for Online  (with Cook, Gribbins, Morsch)
• Ahead of the Wave - Distance Teaching and Learning Conf '14
• Custom Retention Strategies in Online Programs ~Bb World
• Innovation to Disruption Digital Now Plenary 5/19/14
• Designing Collaborative Courses 4/18/14
• Emerging Technology/Pedagogy in Higher Ed 3/18/14
• Disruptive Technology and Teaching 3/17/14
• Alumni Lunch and Learn - Manifesting MOOCs
• CAUCE Partnerships and Possibilities 
• Illinois Council on Continuing Higher Education 2/5/14
• Online Learning Roundtable Briefing 1/29/2014
• Emerging Tech & Strategy with Witt Salley and Joel Hartman
• NeLA Update at the Sloan Consortium 
• MHEC MOOC Summit Panel
• University of Illinois Faculty Panel
• Higher Education Disruption and Opportunity
• Vortex of Technology
• Disruption and Opportunity
• U of Toronto Int'l Conference ~ Hybrid Learning (speaker notes)
• OER: Potential and Pitfalls (speaker notes)
• The Rapidly Changing Environment in Distance Education
• Generating and Sustaining Faculty Engagement
• MOOCs with a Purpose (w/Carrie, Emily, Michele)
• Game Changers Online in Higher Ed
• MOOCs: Practices, Pedagogies and Place 
• Open Educational Resources Enhancing Classes
• Intro to MOOC 
• National e-Learning Alliance (NeLA)
• MOOC Disruption
• Flipping the Classroom
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• Quality in MOOC Design
• One-Two-One: University/Community College Collaboration
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• SCUP: Building Virtual Bridges in a Time of MOOCs and Mashups
• Reading the MOOC Tea Leaves
• Updated Emerging Open Online Environment
• Making a MOOC
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• Alternative Searching Options
• Open Online Environment Update
• Transforming Graduate Education Online 
• XLi New Visions: Networked World
• XLi Emerging Open Environments
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• Inverted, Flipped and Blended
• Three Learning Innovations
• Paradigm Shift-Open Continuing Higher Education
• Online Learning Transforming Higher Education
• Winterize Your Class!
• Online and on the Move: Mobile Online Learning
• National Press Club: Creating the Classroom of the Future
• Interlocking Social Networking
• eduMOOC: Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow
• Open Future of Higher Education
• Operational and Strategic Issues in Online Learning
• Sustaining and Retaining Online Students
• Building Community in Online Learning
•  Technology Transforming Higher Ed
• 21st Century Higher Ed - the Second Decade
• Continuing Higher Ed Thriving in a Recession
• Difficult Students Online
• Educause Quarterly Article: Sustaining Online Students at UIS
• New Tools for the New Year
• ASSURE Instructional Design
• Active Learning
• Beyond Google and Bing: Discovering a Better Back Rub
• Interlocking Social Networking
• Validating Internet Sources
• Waving to the Future
• Catching the Learning Wave (Fortnightly Mailing)
• Web 2.0 & Social Networking for Small Business
• e-Mentor Article on Google Wave Collaboration
• The Inverted Classroom
• Wave Collaboration in Higher Education
• Learning without Limits (for HP Innovations in Ed Summit) 
• Digital by Design Online
• Technologies Transforming Teaching
• Quality in Online Teaching
• Teaching in a Recession: Technologies, Pedagogies, Practices and Practicalities
• Academic Research Tools Online
• Social Networking Tools in Education
• Digital Petting Zoo 
• PowerPoint(less) - Alternative Web 2.0 Presentation Modes
• Future of English Studies
• Blending for Learning
• Beyond Google & Yahoo: Search Engine Alternatives
• Active Online Learning
• Online Interaction and Collaboration
• Emerging Technologies Delivering Continuing Ed to the World
• Collaborative Technologies for Teaching and Scholarship
• Dennis E. Minor Memorial Lecture
• Transparent Technology - St. Louis Conference
• Academic Libraries 2.0
• Blogging and Micro-Blogging
• RSS Present, Potential, and Promise
• Elements of UIS Online Success 
• Fueling Online Learning
• Access with Quality - Approaching Online/Blended Learning 
• Higher Ed on Second Life: Fall 2007 Snapshot
• Blending for Quality and Access
• Web 2.0 Sampler
• Semester without End
• Web 2.0
• Web 2.0: When Will We Ever Get There?
• FSI - Faculty Summer Institute
• Journalism

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