Rondi Schei

About Me

Rondi Schei I am the Program Dean for Course Design and Quality for Online Learning. My primary responsibilities are to manage the course development workflow and the instructional design team and provide faculty and departments with high-quality online courses. I also co-chair the Accessibility Work Group for the Oregon Community College Distance Learning Association (OCCDLA).

My educational background is quite broad. I have an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from a liberal arts college with minors in Business Management and Environmental Science. I have Masters degrees in both Economics and Environmental Science & Management. In addition, I have three graduate certificates: Management in Science & Technology, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and Sustainability.

I have taught in higher education for 13 years as part-time faculty. I taught a variety of economics courses, but have also taught Business Communication and Statistics courses. My Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics courses both used open educational resources (OER) and my Microeconomics course was nationally recognized by Quality Matters.

Previous Roles

Co-chair: Accessible Digital Environments Committee (ADEC)
Part-time Faculty: Taught a variety of economics courses, Business Communication, and Statistics courses.
Online Program Manager: Developed, implemented, and managed a new instructional design program.

Previous Faculty Support Roles

Online Development Facilitator focusing on Accessibility in Online Learning: Review online courses for web accessibility, provided accessibility training, and tested technological tools for adoption.
Instructional Technology Specialist at the Rock Creek Campus: Trained faculty on a variety of instructional technologies, like D2L Brightspace.
Online Faculty Mentor for Online Learning: Provided instructional design guidance for faculty developing new online courses and reviewed finished courses using the QM Rubric.

Contact Info

Office: Sylvania Campus, TCB 116
Email: rondi.schei@pcc.edu
Phone: 971-722-4720

PCC Best Practice Blogs

Organizing Content for Student Success!1: Learn how to organize your course files in a way that simplifies the student experience. Posted April 3, 2020
Increasing My Presence 11: Rondi Schei shares some techniques she uses to increase instructor presence and engagement outside of assignment feedback. Posted February 13, 2020
Video recording made easy: Rondi Schei explains how to improve the process for recording your PowerPoint slides directly in the latest version of the software. Posted October 21, 2019
Assignments using Google Tools 2: Rondi Schei shares how she has helped instructors use Google apps to provide collaborative assignments in conjunction with their online course. Posted April 29, 2019
Tips for great looking emails 2: Rondi shares how to make your emails effective, attractive, and accessible. Posted February 25, 2019
Organizing Content in D2L Brightspace 2: Rondi Schei makes recommendations about content organization for improved student usability. Posted May 8, 2018
“Hacking” the PCC stylesheet 1: See how you can customize the way your content looks while still maintaining the accessibility and mobile-friendliness of the PCC stylesheet. Posted February 13, 2018
Embedding YouTube “Clips”5: Rondi describes how she used snippets of youtube videos to fill out her OER text/course. Posted February 5, 2018