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LDT at PETE&C 2018

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Banner advertising the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference in 2018

 

Dr. Kirby and a bunch of other Penn Staters will be at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference from February 11 to 14, 2018, at Hershey Lodge. The LDT Program and Penn State World Campus will have an exhibit booth in the expo hall on Monday and Tuesday of that week. If you will attend, drop Dr. Kirby a note and set-up a time to connect. If you could possibly attend, please consider it. Penn State students and alumni have a great presence at this event, and we are happy when we gather our crowd for a group photo, chotolately desserts, and beverages. If you’re in Pennsylvania, we hope to see you there.

Standing Advisement for e-Learning Design Students

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Welcome to the Learning, Design, and Technology Program, and to Penn State University! We are happy to have a diverse student population studying in our programs, including professionals working in K-12 and higher education, corporate, military, and community training, informal learning institutions, and many others who work to facilitate learning for others.

The Postbaccalaureate Certificate in e-Learning Design (code name: ELEARN) is a 12-credit professional development experience offered by the Learning, Design, and Technology Program via Penn State World Campus. The certificate is designed to prepare students for designing and developing digital and/or online learning resources, particularly course lessons (modules) delivered via an online course management system (CMS) like Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, etc. The coursework is focused more on the design and delivery of learning than it is on the technical processes related to programming or managing digital software and hardware. Professionals who work as instructional designers, training developers, instructors, trainers, or administrators of any such personnel would be able to immediately apply the lessons from this certificate into their daily work.

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The program is straightforward: successfully complete the four required online courses for the certificate and students earn the certificate. The courses for this certificate have either the LDT or the ADTED prefix, and are 3 graduate credits each. The four required courses for the certificate are: [Read more…]

Spring 2018 Registration Update

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As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday (in the USA) and the end of the Fall term, our Spring 2018 courses are quickly reaching capacity (see table below). If you’ve not yet registered for Spring 2018 courses, please do so as soon as possible.

If a course (or two) that you would like to take is full, please add yourself to the wait list for the course on LionPATH. We gauge demand for courses based on the official wait list on LionPATH. If you would like to take a course that is full, then the only way we know of your interest is via the wait list. We posted about the wait list previously.

New Student Guidance

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New Certificate for K-12 Explores Online Teaching and Learning

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The Penn State Newswire recently announced the launch of our newest certificate: The Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Teaching and Learning Online in K-12 Settings. New and existing Penn State students may apply for the certificate immediately. The TLOK12 certificate is designed for preservice and inservice teachers to learn the basics of online course design and delivery and apply them to authentic teaching contexts under supervision. K-12 educators who work with blended (or hybrid online and in-classroom) learning settings will also benefit from the certificate.

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Spring 2018 Registration Information

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We’ve not yet entered winter, but now is the time to think about spring—the Spring 2018 term. The LDT program is best able to meet the needs of our students when everyone registers as soon as they are eligible. Penn State opens registration according to student status, with priority going to students who are closest to graduation.

LDT students are eligible to register in LionPATH, via the Class Schedule menu, on the dates noted in the table below, by priority category:

Student CategoryRegistration Open Date
M.Ed. in LDT students with 20+ credits10/13/2017 (Friday)
All students admitted to the M.Ed. in LDT program10/16/2017 (Monday)
All certificate students11/1/2017 (Wednesday)

The LDT courses available for Spring 2018 are summarized in the table below:

LDT Spring 2018 Courses

Reg. StatusCourse CodeCourse NameDelivery TimeframeLionPATH Class NumberNotes
FULLLDT 415ASystematic Instructional Development01/08 - 04/27/186958Filled 11/15
Filling Fast!LDT 467Emerging Web Technologies and Learning01/08 - 04/27/188094
FULLLDT 527Designing Constructivist Learning Environments01/08 - 04/27/188095Filled 11/1
FULLLDT 566Computers as Learning Tools01/08 - 04/27/1828500Filled 11/15
FULLEDTEC 561Measuring the Impact of Technology on Learning01/08 - 04/27/188249Filled 11/1
OpenLDT 581Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Design, and Technology01/08 - 04/27/1824968
Filling Fast!ADTED 531Course Design and Development in Distance Education01/08 - 04/27/1825296Must be enrolled (or enroll) in e-Learning Design Certificate

Please do not delay! Plan your courses now, and register on the day that you are eligible to first register. Delaying registration can create roadblocks to getting into the courses you prefer, so be prompt and be happy!

About Course Wait Lists

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I’m on the Wait List for a course! What do I do now?

Learn all about the Wait List on LionPATH on the Registrar’s help page.

When a course is filled to capacity, students are given the option to add themselves to the wait list for the course.

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In the LDT Online Programs, we gauge student interest in courses according to the registration on LionPATH. If you need a course and it is currently full then you must add yourself to the Wait List on LionPATH for the course. To be clear: emails, phone calls, hallway conversations, blog comments, car magnets, movie theater whispers, etc. are not used to track and tally student need for courses. If you want to take a course, you should be on the Wait List for the course.

Students must add and remove themselves from a course Wait List via LionPATH. [Read more…]

Admissions Timetable – From Certificate to Degree

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The LDT Online Programs has an established admissions timetable, which includes specific deadlines for the receipt of complete applications for degree and certificate programs.

Applications for admission must be complete by the deadlines listed below in order to be reviewed for admission:

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  • APRIL 1 – Complete Application Deadline for Summer Start
  • JUNE 15 – Complete Application Deadline for Fall Start
  • NOVEMBER 1 – Complete Application Deadline for Spring Start

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Understanding the First Week of Class

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The start of each new term, Summer, Fall, and Spring, amplifies the differing needs of the individual members of the LDT Online Programs’ community. Let’s take a global view of all that is happening in the first week of any term so that the programmatic purpose of the methods and schedules of the first week seem a bit more human and coordinated.

Settling-In

First, we have new students beginning their online education with us at the start of every term.

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Our new students are not only adjusting to the course, they are still settling-in with all of the administrative details of Penn State, World Campus, The Graduate School, and the LDT Program. Accessing an online course with us requires numerous steps to occur in sequence across multiple offices or administrations—Program, Department, Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Bursar, World Campus, and Canvas CMS, to name the major players. At each step of the way, some humans need to do some steps, [Read more…]

HelpDesk Now Offers 24-hour Support

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The World Campus HelpDesk now provides 24-hour support for World Campus students and faculty. The announcement read in part:

Demand for after-hours support, student feedback, and benchmarking with our top competitors indicates a need for 24×7 technical support for World Campus students. We are excited to announce that the World Campus HelpDesk (WCHD), in collaboration with the Enterprise IT Service Desk (EIT) will expand technical support hours of operation for World Campus (WC) students to 24×7 via the Shared Service Environment (SSE). This will begin Monday, August 7 as 12:01 am.

Students will continue to receive the high quality of service they are used to, now with round-the-clock support.

Please spread the word so that your students may benefit from this new service.

Midsummer Update 2017

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The timeframe of mid-July to mid-August is a crossroads for the LDT program. Some summer courses have ended, and other courses are nearing their end. Registration for the upcoming Fall term has been open since March, with some of our courses full and others filling. Most of our summer admissions are decided, and those students are making arrangements to begin their first courses.

Here are some program reminders that are perfect for this time of year:

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Fall 2017 Course Registration

At the bottom of this post is an updated summary of our Fall 2017 courses. [Read more…]