IELOL Workshop (Invited Session)

August 19, 2011 - 7:55am | by knanni
Presenter(s)
Lawrence C. Ragan (Penn State University, US)
Bruce Chaloux (Southern Regional Education Board, US)
Marie Cini (University of Maryland University College, US)
Ray Schroeder (University of Illinois Springfield, US)
Wayne Smutz (Penn State University, US)
Cynthia Golden (University of Pittsburgh, US)
Session Information
November 9, 2011 - 1:00pm
Track: 
Leadership, Values and Society
Session Type: 
Pre-conference Workshop PM
Location: 
Oceanic 7
Session Duration: 
1/2 Day - 3 Hours
Abstract

Note:  This session is restricted to 2011 IELOL participants and associated faculty

This program is the final of three components of the Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL). This workshop will enable IELOL participants to report on success of their individual leadership challenges since the face-to-face institute. Faculty will provide feedback and recommendations on the implementation strategies for each challenge.
 

 

Lead Presenter

Institute Directors

Larry Ragan

Lawrence C. Ragan, co-director
Dr. Ragan directs the design and development of a wide range of faculty development services and systems for Penn State's Academic Outreach. Academic Outreach serves learners via online (the World Campus), Continuing Education, and the video learning network. Dr. Ragan designs and delivers professional development programs, establishes a faculty development learning community, and conducts research including the articulation of strategies to help faculty manage the online workload (SMOW) and the definition of competencies for online teaching success (COTS).He has served in leadership roles as co-director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership program (2005-2006), and currently co-director of the PSU/Sloan-C Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning.
   
Bruce Chaloux Bruce Chaloux, co-director

Bruce N. Chaloux, past president of the Sloan Consortium, directs the 16-state Electronic Campus initiative of the Southern Regional Education Board. The Electronic Campus, the South's "electronic marketplace" for distance education courses and programs, has grown to include more than 10,000 credit courses and 500 degree programs from more than 300 colleges and universities in the region.

Prior to assuming his duties at the SREB in 1998, he served in the Graduate School at Virginia Tech for 13 years, including four years as Associate Dean for Extended Campus Programs at the institution’s main campus in Blacksburg and earlier for nine years as Associate Dean and Director of Tech’s Northern Virginia Graduate Campus in suburban Washington, DC. He earlier held positions on the staff of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and as an academic affairs administrator and faculty member at Castleton State College (Vermont).

He has earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Florida State University in 1979 and has business degrees from the University of Florida (master’s in 1972) and Castleton State College.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leadership Faculty

 Marie Cini

Dr. Marie Cini serves as Vice President and Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at UMUC. Dr. Cini has over 20 years of experience with various facets of adult and distance education.

Before joining UMUC, Dr. Cini held the positions of Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Interim Dean of the School of Management at City University of Seattle in Bellevue, WA. In these positions, she led several major change initiatives including greater engagement among faculty, greater role clarity and responsibility, an accelerated program and course development process, a renewed e-campus initiative, a more tightly focused professional and continuing education unit, and closer linkages between academic affairs representatives staff in the US and in international locations.
 
Dr. Cini has also served as the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts programs at Thomas Edison State College in NJ, and as a Director and Associate Professor in the (now) School of Leadership and Professional Advancement at Duquesne University in PA. She also served as the Director of Academic Affairs for the Burns Academy of Leadership at UMCP.
 
Dr. Cini has published and presented on the topics of authentic assessment and academic integrity, leadership development in adult learners, retention and adult learners, group newcomers and innovation, and program development across cultures. As an early adopter of online education, Dr. Cini continues to be interested in the scholarship of learning outside of the traditional classroom space. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.
   
Ray Schroeder Ray Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of Communication, and founding director of the Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Schroeder has numerous national presentations and publications in online and technology-enhanced learning. Ray has published the popular Online Learning Update and Educational Technology blogs for the past decade. He was a Sloan Consortium Distinguished Scholar in Online Learning 2002-2003, 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 co-founder of the New Century Learning Consortium. Most recently, Ray was named the inaugural 2010 recipient of the Sloan Consortium's highest Individual award - the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award. Schroeder is an inaugural Sloan Consortium Fellow.
   
 Wayne Smutz

Wayne Smutz is Executive Director of the World Campus and Associate Vice President for Academic Outreach at Penn State. In these roles, he oversees all credit programs (70+ degrees and certificates) offered through Penn State Outreach whether online, face-to-face, via video, or in blended modes. The World Campus reaches learners in all fifty states and seventy countries.

Dr. Smutz embraces a learner centric approach for adult part-time learners with a focus on enhancing access to quality educational programs, He is committed to ensuring that adult part-time learners have the support necessary to succeed at Penn State.  He has been instrumental in strengthening relationships with academic colleges in order to better serve adults and in enhancing the visibility of the World Campus within Penn State. Attending to the continuing evolution of the World Campus and Academic Outreach, he is currently dedicated to creating an organizational culture of authenticity and empowerment.
 
Dr. Smutz serves on the boards of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association, the American Distance Education Consortium, and the National Observatory for Cross Border Education. He received a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in political philosophy and a Ph.D. in higher education both from Penn State.
   
 Cynthia Golden

Cynthia Golden serves as director of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, whose mission is to support teaching, learning, instructional technology and Pitt Online. She serves as liaison to the Provost’s Advisory Council on Academic Excellence, as a member of the Provost’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, and on other university committees and campus and professional working groups. Prior to joining Pitt, Cynthia was Vice President of EDUCAUSE, where she led professional development activities as well as the association's content and knowledge management initiatives. Before joining EDUCAUSE in late 2001, she served as Executive Director of Computing and Technology Services at Duquesne University, where she had been the CIO since 1998. Previously, Cynthia was manager of business applications in the Information Systems division at MIT, where she also coordinated administrative computing architecture. She was Associate Director of Administrative Systems at Carnegie Mellon University before joining MIT.

She is a frequent presenter at conferences, and author of numerous articles as well as author and editor of the book Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT. She served on the Board of Directors of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the Seminars on Academic Computing, the Northeast Regional Computing Consortium and CAUSE; participated on national conference program committees; and served as a member of many professional association committees over a twenty-year period.
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter 1 Email: 
lcr1@psu.edu