Bio - Dr. Scheuermann

A dynamic speaker, Mike frequently participates in education- and technology-related conferences and faculty development days offering keynote addresses, conducting workshops, presenting papers, facilitating roundtable discussions, and demonstrating his broad-based usage of integrated and ancillary technologies as well as his online courses.

In his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Mike received an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics. He received his Ph.D. from Drexel University's School of Education in Educational Leadership Development and Learning Technologies (ELLT). Mike's research related to the perceptions of nontraditional students and their educators relative to the use of collaborative teaching and learning methods in undergraduate classes. In order to begin his Doctoral work, he put on hold his pursuit of a second M.S. at Penn, this time in Philosophy.

During his graduate work, Mike had the opportunity to study in Shanghai, Beijing, London, Windsor, Dublin, Belfast, and Stockholm. He works full time now in Drexel's Instructional Technology Support (ITS) group in its Information Resources and Technology (IRT) department - concentrating on enhancing teaching and learning through the effective use of technology.

Mike spent nearly three decades in industry as an operations manager, trainer, and internal consultant. He has managed multi-dimensional work groups of all sizes throughout the northeast quadrant of the country. He facilitated classes at Rosemont College and has done contract work through Rowan University. His courses have included:

Mike's son, Daniel is an artist who transferred from Drexel's College of Media Arts and Design to the Savannah College of Art and Design (commonly and fondly referred to as SCAD), in the fall of 2003. Daniel graduated from SCAD in 2006 with a degree in Sequential Art, resides in Chicago (Mike's favorite city), and is working on graphic novels while minimizing his footprint on our planet. You can view some of Dan's work here: TheDanHale.com or here: TheDanHaleBlogSpot. (Mike's maternal grandparents were both accomplished albeit amateur artists, in Connecticut.)

	As the Associate Vice President - Instructional Technology Support, at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Mike coordinates the activities of four dozen professionals in four disparate locations who function in the Collaboration and Online Learning Team and the Client Services group. He represents IRT, broadly, throughout every department, college, and school at Drexel – and collaborates with their leadership on an ongoing and rigorous basis. In ITS: The C&OLT is comprised of the Collaboration Team (CT) and the Online Learning Team (OLT) The Client Services Group is comprised of Desktop Support, Help Desk, Facility Services, the ITR Team (at Cabrini College), and the Academic Services Team which is located in Sacramento, California. The OLT (that Mike formerly led) currently supports 45,000 end-users at Drexel University, the Drexel College of Medicine, as well as five partner institutions for which Drexel hosts Blackboard Vista 8 in an ASP model. (The current LMS Roadmap has all schools migrating to Blackboard Learn in 2012.) The OLT provides ongoing discovery, vetting, selecting, training and support for emerging technologies such as: Wimba, TurnItIn, Dreamweaver, Camtasia, Impatica, Respondus, EndNote, and many others. This support initiative is expanding as, for example, Drexel University was the first institution to site-license Impatica - for students, and became a significant user of iWebfolio, for e-Portfolios, when all 2500 incoming freshmen in 2009, and all 2650 incoming freshmen in 2010, were brought up to speed on this application. The CT supports broad-based use of SharePoint for collaboration and SiteCore for Web development. Facility Services, or the Video-Conferencing Team, provides HDVC capability throughout the University community as well as lecture and event capture, Webcasting, archiving, editing, encoding, and streaming. ITR provides the core of the on-site IT department at Cabrini College, a key Drexel partner. Desktop Support. Help Desk. Online Learning. Academic Services provides technology support for all academic classes and institutional events held at Drexel's CGS, Center for Graduate Studies, located close to California's capitol building.

	In 2012, Dr. Scheuermann: Received a joint appointment as Executive Director of the Online Learning Council coupled with his existing AVP role in IRT, in Instructional Technology Support, at Drexel University. was invited to present at: the AAC&U Conference Association of American Colleges and Universities the GMAC Conference Graduate Management Advisors Conference EDUCOMM In 2011, Mike: received an Outstanding Online Instructor award (one of nine Drexel faculty so honored), was invited to participate on the inaugural Drexel Leadership 2020 committee, spoke as an invited panelist at the Campus Technology Summit, presented as an invited speaker at the NFAIS conference, proposed, formed, and Chaired the BLWG, Blackboard Learn Working Group, launching the university's 18-month migration from the Vista LMS to the Learn 9 LMS, was appointed to the Strategic Planning Task Force for Drexel University, served on the Future Search committee to map out the future of the Drexel Libraries, celebrated his 30th wedding anniversary to Donna Hale-Scheuermann, his best friend. In 2010, he: celebrated 10 years at Drexel University, reinstituted the Academic Computer Advisory Committee, joined the Technology Committee on the Board of CGFNS International (Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools), designed and began facilitating an online graduate course for the Drexel College of Medicine, offered keynotes at two regional higher-ed institutions, deepened ITS's data mining and reporting capabilities in both breadth and depth, reporting regularly on same to the President's Cabinet as well as the President's Executive Council, spearheaded IRT's effort to develop a Roadmap for the institution's plan to move itself and its five partner schools onto the Blackboard Learn platform (a two-year project involving 45,000 end users), participated in 11 higher education conferences and events, and continued to participate on most of the Committees and Task Forces at Drexel, as detailed below. In 2009, Dr. Scheuermann: received an individual President's Award, at Drexel, the highest award available to professional staff at the University, designed and orchestrated a complete reorganization of his 48-person Instructional Technology Support sub-department in IRT, positioned the University’s 2500 incoming freshmen to utilize a new ePortfolio application and to set them up for success by leading the development and implementation of the necessary training and support structures for this application, for the faculty, administrators, and students alike, was appointed to the Wimba Advisory Board, served on the Bb World 2009 Conference Committee, served on the search committee for the Dean of Libraries, at Drexel, served on the Innovation and Creativity in Teaching and Learning Task Force, began to chair the Quality sub-committee of Drexel's Online Learning Council, joined the DeL (Drexel eLearning) Deans Council, served on the Sacramento Academic Advisory Committee (for Drexel's new center for Graduate Studies, in Sacramento, California, launched in January, 2009), continued to serve on the Library Advisory Committee, and designed and began facilitating an online graduate course for Drexel's College of Medicine. A dynamic speaker, Mike frequently participates in education- and technology-related conferences and faculty development days offering keynote addresses, conducting workshops, presenting papers, facilitating roundtable discussions, and demonstrating his broad-based usage of integrated and ancillary technologies as well as his online courses. Mike has facilitated completely online classes, almost exclusively at the graduate level, since 2000 in WebCT CE, WebCT Vista, eCollege, Blackboard, Blackboard Vista 3, 4, and now 8, as well as lightweight CMSs hosted by large textbook publishers. He is involved in Drexel University's Online MBA initiatives as well as the College of Engineering's Engineering Management program, which is delivered completely online, and has taught for the School of Education in their MS in Higher Education program. Most recently, Dr. Scheuermann began to facilitate an online course (which he designed) for Drexel's College of Medicine. In his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Mike received an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics. He received his Ph.D. from Drexel University's School of Education in Educational Leadership Development and Learning Technologies (ELLT). Mike's research related to the perceptions of nontraditional students and their educators relative to the use of collaborative teaching and learning methods in undergraduate classes. In order to begin his Doctoral work, he put on hold his pursuit of a second M.S. at Penn, this time in Philosophy. During his graduate work, Mike had the opportunity to study in Shanghai, Beijing, London, Windsor, Dublin, Belfast, and Stockholm. He works full time now in Drexel's Instructional Technology Support (ITS) group in its Information Resources and Technology (IRT) department - concentrating on enhancing teaching and learning through the effective use of technology. Mike spent nearly three decades in industry as an operations manager, trainer, and internal consultant. He has managed multi-dimensional work groups of all sizes throughout the northeast quadrant of the country. He facilitated classes at Rosemont College and has done contract work through Rowan University. His courses have included: Systems Engineering Leadership, Leading Effective Organizations, Leadership and Professional Development, Problems in Human Relations, Problems in Engineering Administration, Organizational Management, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, Business Research, Introductory Statistics, New Technologies in Communication, Business Process Reengineering, Construction Planning and Scheduling, and Customer Service Practica. Mike's son, Daniel is an artist who transferred from Drexel's College of Media Arts and Design to the Savannah College of Art and Design (commonly and fondly referred to as SCAD), in the fall of 2003. Daniel graduated from SCAD in 2006 with a degree in Sequential Art, resides in Chicago (Mike's favorite city), and is working on graphic novels while minimizing his footprint on our planet. You can view some of Dan's work here: TheDanHale.com or here: TheDanHaleBlogSpot. (Mike's maternal grandparents were both accomplished albeit amateur artists, in Connecticut.) Donna Hale-Scheuermann, Mike’s wife, is a CPA and graduated from Purdue University with a double major in accounting and finance. Donna was recognized with the Outstanding Senior Candidate award at Purdue-Calumet in 1991-92.









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