Rogers was a professor of professional education at Bemidji State University who is currently serving as the dean of the School of Education and Graduate Studies at Valley City State University in North Dakota.
Presented by Minnesota Online, the Pioneer Award recognized Rogersą contributions and service to online teaching and learning. She is a past chair of the Minnesota Online Council and served as a faculty representative on the E-Learning Task Force. She also was a participant in the first E-Learning Summit in 2000 and is a member of the Minnesota Commissioner of Education's Online Learning Advisory Council.
Part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Minnesota Online is a collaborative enterprise between Minnesota State Colleges and Universities campuses that promotes online offerings and sets the guidelines was well as best practices for online courses and services. It serves as the system's gateway for more than 1,850 online courses and 157 online degree, diploma or certificate programs. In the last academic year, more than 41,000 students took courses through Minnesota Online.
Rogers consults internationally on E-learning, is the author of several articles on instructional technology, and regularly presents at technology and education conferences.
Her recent work includes the publication of an edited book, Designing Instruction for Technology-Enhanced Learning, and is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning Teaching, and Technology Applications published in 2005.
A past Gerry Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, she was the keynote speaker at UT 2001, a technology and education conference held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
She received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota.