Description:

This is a hands-on learning session. We encourage you to bring a laptop and a syllabus (or two) to this session.

Have you been curious about active learning strategies? Would you like to reflect on how to move some materials outside class time to free up face-to-face time for more critical thinking, deeper learning, collaborative projects, and a more thorough immersion in the discipline?

Ray Schroeder will speak and provide hands-on activities about how you can apply active learning strategies in your courses.

Schroeder is the first speaker in our TEACHxperts speaker series.

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. Perhaps he is best known for his social media that includes daily tweets, Facebook, LinkedIn, and five daily blogs on various aspects of news, research, and trends in technology-enhanced learning in higher education.

His recognition includes the Sloan Consortium's highest Individual award - the A. Frank Mayadas Online Leadership Award; the 2011 University of Illinois Distinguished Service Award. He is an inaugural Sloan Consortium Fellow, and was the 2012 Innovation Fellow for Digital Learning by the UPCEA. More recently, he received the 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.