Welcome to the College of IST Learning Design eNewsletter
April 2020
Join Us for our Next Online Teaching and Learning Meeting
Please mark your calendars and join us on Friday April 24th from 12:15-1:15 PM ET. The meeting will take place via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/836774248
We are planning to talk about how to help our students during this stressful time.
If you are currently teaching a World Campus section, then please go to this link and copy the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HSz1hQ8_WojcdsTJS1x_n_j_GjzhtbKO23wEqHiaY00/edit?usp=sharing
After you copy it, send it to your students via an announcement asking them to complete it, and bring your results to discuss at Friday’s meeting.
The meeting will be recorded for those who are unable to attend. The recording will be placed in Box at https://psu.box.com/s/uoi9p1wtnbf6eamu2hclz6gq3fvickxw
Join us for “Best Practices for Final Exams” on Tuesday April 21
We will host “Best practices for Final Exams” with faculty panelists: Lee Giles, Megan Costello and Rosalie Ocker on Tuesday, April 21 at noon-1 pm ET in Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/145457708 The focus will be on Remote instruction.
More info on the Remote Delivery of RI courses and also recordings of other sessions: https://sites.ist.psu.edu/virusinfo/node/10/#training
Hope you can join us!
Learning Design Support
The Learning Design team is available to help. You can email the Learning Design team with specific questions at LD@ist.psu.edu and one of the team members will get back to you as soon as possible.
Request World Campus Course Templates
If you are teaching a Resident Instruction (RI) version of a College of IST course, then you can request a copy of the World Campus (WC) course template for that course. Many of the courses that run in residence have an online WC version and while the format is different from the RI section, you may find useful elements that you can utilize in remote instruction. You can request templates by emailing LD@ist.psu.edu.
Engaging Students Series: Blending Asynchronous and Synchronous Teaching
Teaching and Learning with Technology will be offering a series of workshops over the next few weeks to help promote student engagement. For a full listing of dates, times, and topics visit: