Since receiving her Ed.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education in 1991, Dr. Sheffield has taught at California University of Pennsylvania as an Associate Professor. She also directs the Middle School Future Teachers Project for the Office of Social Equity, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Formerly, Dr. Sheffield held a variety of positions in higher education at the Community College of Allegheny County and at Robert Morris College, both in Pittsburgh, and she has worked as an information systems analyst at Westinghouse.
Dr. Sheffield took advantage of her summer in Bloomington to complete an article for Action in Teacher Education about computer literacy among preservice teachers and to continue work on a book chapter which proposes to address classroom diversity issues in teacher education using instructional design techniques. Summing up her experience at I.U., she says it was "a thrill to work with colleagues whose text books I have used in courses that I teach, and whose books I studied from in graduate school."