Welcome to the College of IST Learning Design eNewsletter
March 2021
Join Us for our Next Online Teaching and Learning Conversation
Please mark your calendar and join us on Friday, March 26 from 12:15-1:15 pm ET to discuss takeaways from a year of teaching during COVID and how it has and will impact your teaching going forward. The session will take place via Zoom at https://psu.zoom.us/j/836774248
Email Chris Gamrat if you have requests for agenda topics.
The meetings will be recorded upon request.
“Keep Teaching” Webinar Archive
Keepteaching.psu.edu has sponsored many fantastic sessions on a wide variety of topics to support teaching and learning in the era of COVID. You can access video recordings and slides on the recorded webinars page.
Teaching Site Redesign
We are planning to rework teaching.ist.psu.edu over the summer of 2021 to help keep important instructional resources at your fingertips. We hope to solicit your feedback. More to come soon. If you have initial thoughts, please email Amy Garbrick.
Instructional Designer Course Coverage Update
With the addition of Dean Croll to the Office of Learning Design, we adjusted designer coverage for courses. Starting in February, Dean helped to support some SP21 courses with increasing responsibilities as the semester progressed.
The transition will be completed by March 29.
For more detail, refer to the dashboard listing to view which designer is assigned to your courses: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=230080e06035420e9c0535a50a282760
Tech Tip: TopHat
For those of you interested in learning more about TopHat, the IT Learning and Development group has assembled an overview document associated with their training.
Resident Instruction (RI) Course Templates
Much like the World Campus Canvas shell and course templates, the Office of Learning Design now has a Residential Instruction (RI) Canvas shell. This template is available upon request at the Course Copy Request form. Scroll to the bottom of the course number list to see the “RI Shell” selection.
Learning Design Support
The Learning Design team is available to help you!
Email the Learning Design team with specific questions or to schedule a consultation at LD@ist.psu.edu and one of the team members will get back to you as soon as possible.