Senior Fellow
Duties and Tasks
The Senior Fellow is to conduct research in the area of online, professional and continuing education. The fellow is to publish and present findings in social media, journals, conferences, book chapters, podcasts, and related outlets to inform and advance the causes of UPCEA and its members.
Daily Readings
In order to be most effective, the fellow is to conduct extensive daily readings - read or scan approximately 100 articles, recordings and news releases every day, seven days a week. The daily readings are selected to stay up-to-date on the latest news and trends in higher education, technology, practices and policies. Selected articles are placed in the queue for the curated reading lists that are disseminated via blogs and other social media.
Google Alerts for:
Higher Education AND AI (~20/day)
Online Learning (~20/day)
Coursera OR Udacity (~15/day)
"Alternative Credentials" OR "Online Certificates" (~15/day)
"Open Educational Resources" (~10/day)
"Budget" AND "College OR University" (~20/day)
Sum of approximartely100 articles each day from Google Alerts
Monitor daily feeds from relevant publications, including:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Inside Higher Ed
eCampus News - Fierce Education
Campus Technology
EdSurge
American Council on Education
Brookings
McKinsey & Company
Fortune - Forbes
Wired - ZDnet
Knowledge@Wharton
Evolllution
What's New in the World of AI? - AutoGPT
Member mailings of OLC, WCET, USDLA, ACHE
A variety of scholarly publications that come out quarterly
Disseminate & publish curated reading lists targeted to audiences
Blog - Professional, Continuing and Online Education Update (3 items daily - 14,500 searchable posts)
Blog - Ray's Curation to become Deans' Daily (1 item daily - 1,500 searchable posts)
Blog - Economics and Change in Higher Ed (2 items daily - 14,450 searchable posts)
Blog - OER Update (1 item daily - 2,100 posts)
Blog - Alternative Credentials (1 item daily - 675 posts)
Threads - ray.schroederonlne - 12 followers, just beginning
Publications and presentations 2023
Commencement Speaker at UIS about AI and workforce needs (1,500+ attending)
EDUCAUSE "Quick Talk" online to 300 sites (approx 1,000 attendees)
University Central Washington Faculty Seminar on Gen AI
UPCEA Short Course w/ Julie Uranis on Gen AI
Distance Teaching and Learning / SOLAR plenary moderator
Teaching and Learning with AI (UCF national conference) Keynote (9/24)
Oktoberbest: a Symposium on Teaching annual University of South Carolina Keynote (10/6)
Innovation and Creation in Ever-Advancing AI - European Business Review
LinkedIn Rock to increase annual impressions to 2,000,000 by the end of the year
Contact Ray
rschr1@uis.edu ~ rayschroeder@gmail.com - ray@upcea.edu
Senior Fellow, University Professional and Continuing Education Assn.
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois Springfield