Linda Scharp

Linda Scharp, Director of Education Innovation, McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions, has worked in educational publishing for 27 years. As co-founder of the Learning Solutions Group at Pearson Education and in her current role, she has contributed to the instructional design and development of over 600 online courses. She has ten years experience collaborating with career college administrators and faculty developing successful online programs, curriculum, and courses. This experience has provided both a "big picture" and "hands-on detail" view of issues and challenges faced at all types of career colleges.

Linda has been both an acquisitions/sponsoring editor and a development editor for the best-selling curriculum and instruction list in education at Merrill/Prentice-Hall. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Michigan State University and graduate work in instructional design at the Ohio State University. Her passion is learner-centered teaching; she has taught every age group from Head Start through college. Linda served as a curriculum consultant for the teachers and administrators who founded the successful Center for Research and Technology alternative high school in Clovis, California; its mission promotes collaboration with businesses and community agencies to educate students in a cross-curricular, collaborative, project-based environment.