Elizabeth C. Scheyder, PhD, PE, is an Instructional Technology Project Leader in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where she supervises a wide variety of initiatives assisting professors who want to improve their classes with instructional technologies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (1987), a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (1995), a Master’s degree in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania (2000) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (2012). Experiences from her first career, as a Professional Engineer licensed in Pennsylvania and New York, continue to influence her work in both Instructional Technology and Educational Linguistics. In 2009, she was named a Turning Technologies Distinguished Educator, recognizing her work with TurningPoint audience response systems. Her current research interests include using various forms of instructional technology and computer mediated communication to modernize pedagogy in all disciplines and to teach advanced ESL/EFL to adult learners. She also enjoys teaching Critical Writing courses, where she shares her love of writing in the digital world with native an non-native speakers of English.
Educational Linguistics
The Impact of Recordings on Student Achievement in Critical Language Courses (2012)
Dissertation abstract.
This study investigates the relationship between the use of classroom recordings and student...
Responses to indirect speech acts in a chat room, English Today (2004)
This study compares one aspect of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to oral communication by examining the...
The Use of Complimentary Closings in E-mail: American English Examples, Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (2003)
This paper attempts to address the lack of clear stylistic guidelines for non-native speakers of...
Review of the book Reflections on multiliterate lives, Language in Society (2002)
Many authors write books and papers about deficits in second language teaching and competence, shining...
Educational Technology
The Impact of Recordings on Student Achievement in Critical Language Courses (2012)
Dissertation abstract.
This study investigates the relationship between the use of classroom recordings and student...
Can You Hear Me Now? Pilot Study of Classroom Recording Technologies (with John MacDermott), Summer Conference of the New Media Centers (2007)
In recent semesters, we have piloted three low-cost ways to make classroom recordings: - Audio-only...
Some Preliminary Findings from the Blackboard Study (with John Noakes, John MacDermott, and Jay Treat), Almanac of the University of Pennsylvania (2004)
Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Recorders play an essential role in emissions monitoring, Control (1996)
PC-based recording devices perform many of the data acquisition tasks required by regulatory agencies today,...
Distributed control takes new shapes under PC pressure, Control (1996)
PCs are making inroads in process control, but DCSs still rule in many applications. Here...
Optimizing Food and Pharmaceutical Process Design with Relational Databases, Proceedings of the Instrument Society of America /91, Anaheim, CA (1991)
When designing a new food or pharmaceutical facility, a relational database is an effective tool...
Relational database applications in manufacturing system design., Proceedings of the Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Vienna Austria, September 1990 (1990)
Relational databases can be implemented as an effective design tool during the Preliminary and Final...