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Professional Info
Organization: 
University of Illinois at Springfield
Position Type: 
Administrator
Title: 
Director of Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
Personal Homepage: 
Ray Schroeder
Short Bio: 

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, co-founder of the New Century Learning Consortium, and recipient of the inaugural A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award from the Sloan Consortium 2010.

Full Bio/Curriculum Vitae: 
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Discipline: 
Humanities
Discipline: 
Information Technology
Discipline: 
Social Sciences
Area of Expertise: 
Access
Area of Expertise: 
Administration
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Collaboration
Area of Expertise: 
Community
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Cost
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Faculty
Area of Expertise: 
Learning
Area of Expertise: 
Networks
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Scale
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Services
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Students
Area of Expertise: 
Teaching
Area of Expertise: 
Technologies
Area of Expertise Short Description: 

I have been fortunate to hold a leadership role in nearly all aspects of our online program since the inception in 1997. We have received national recognition for "Institution-wide Excellence in Online Learning," shared the inaugural Ralph Gomory Award for Quality Online Learning, and received an excellence award from the Society for New Communications Research for online reputation management through new media. Our online and blended enrollments have grown each term for each of the past 37 fall, spring and summer semesters. Student retention and success have been outstanding.

I have had the good fortune to have presented some two hundred regional and national keynotes, conference presentations, invited college/university presentations, papers, book chapters, etc. One key to my expertise in these areas has been the daily research I conduct in the course publishing three items daily in the online learning udpate blog (more than 12,000 postings) and the educational technology blog (more than 10,000 postings). Another, more recent daily blog is recession realities which chronicles the impact of the recession on higher education.

Area of Interest: 
Access
Area of Interest: 
Administration
Area of Interest: 
Collaboration
Area of Interest: 
Community
Area of Interest: 
Faculty
Area of Interest: 
Learning
Area of Interest: 
Scale
Area of Interest: 
Services
Area of Interest: 
Students
Area of Interest: 
Teaching
Area of Interest: 
Technologies
Area of Interest Short Description: 

My interests are in all aspects of online and blended learning. I have been associated with our online program since the inception in 1997. As we continue to grow the program, I remain vitally interested in all aspects of online and blended learning.

Online Experience Level: 
Advanced

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