Welcome to the College of IST Learning Design eNewsletter
April 2021
Canceled: Next Online Teaching and Learning Conversation
The next scheduled session for Friday, April 30, 2021 from 12:15-1:15 pm ET has been canceled.
Email Chris Gamrat for any questions and ideas for topics for Fall21.
Inclusive Teaching Resources
Learning Design has published a new page of inclusive course elements. You will find ideas for your syllabus and student group formation. Included are recommendations to help students navigate group projects and group assignment examples.
Tech Tip – Codeanywhere has been Approved for use at Penn State
Codeanywhere has been approved for use at Penn State. With Codeanywhere, you set up your development environment once, share with all, and it always works. Students can focus on what they are there for– to learn to code. Codeanywhere supports over 75 programming languages, allows connections to servers using all standard protocols (SSH/SFTP, FTP or FTPS) and has a web-based terminal to run commands.
Did you know?
Safari/O’Reilly is provided free to both you and our students. It does not have a limit to the number of concurrent users. Consider using it in your course. Safari includes more than 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video and more. Includes access to exclusive O’Reilly content and resources from more than 200 other publishers.
Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium Set for May 11-13
This year’s TLT symposium is May 11 to 13. For registration and the schedule visit https://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/
Learning Design Support
The Learning Design team is available to help you!
Review the course support list for instructional designer support or email the Learning Design team with questions or to schedule a consultation at LD@ist.psu.edu.