Hello students! Summer 2016 course registration has proceeded slow and steady, which is both good and bad. What’s good is that most of our current students have used the available time to register for courses that they need. But what’s bad is that there is a large number of current LDT 
degree and certificate students who are missing their chance to enroll for the courses that they want before the wave of newly admitted students snap-up a much of the good stuff. Our program is best able to support our students’ needs when each student registers as soon as s/he is eligible to register, and as far as Summer 2016 courses are concerned, our current students have been able to register since February 3, 2016. Please remember that payment is not due at time of registration—register first, pay when the bill becomes due later. [Read more…]
Archives for March 2016
World Campus Canvas Course Orientation for Students
The ANGEL course management system is retiring after a long service to Penn State University (and many other universities across the world). The new course management system is named Canvas. Canvas is in operation now for some Penn State World Campus courses, including some LDT courses. Come Fall 2016, virtually all World Campus courses will be delivered via Canvas.
If you’ve not yet taken a course delivered by Canvas, you would benefit from browsing through the World Campus Canvas Course Orientation for students. It will help you prepare for the new structure and layout of courses delivered via Canvas. The new course management system is not overly complicated (in fact, it is much more intuitive than ANGEL), but new things take some time to learn, so give yourself a head start.
LDT course descriptions page
The LDT faculty developed a helpful set of course descriptions for our program’s online courses. The LDT Course Descriptions 
page includes course descriptions that are more detailed and insightful about the course’s content and purpose than the university’s official course descriptions. The page also has a sortable table to visually represent the degree and postbaccalaureate certificates that each online course can apply toward. Check it out—it is a handy planning tool for students!
Reblog: Meet the Penn State World Campus Librarian
Torrie Raish
LDT doctoral student Torrie Raish now works as the Penn State World Campus Librarian. She was introduced to the World Campus student community in a recent Corner of College & Allen post on the World Campus student blog. She will use her learning design background to support the development of information literacy in all World Campus students. Congratulations Torrie!