The table below shows the LDT courses available for Fall 2016. All courses offered in the Fall 2016 term have the LDT prefix.
Masters and certificate students in the LDT program are encouraged to register as soon as they are eligible. Registration for Fall 2016 courses for masters and certificate students opened May 2, 2016. As of July 1, 2016 LDT course reached 65% overall capacity. Do not delay—please register via LionPATH as soon as possible. [Read more…]
LionPATH, Penn State’s new student information system, has been phased into daily use since Spring 2016. Students, especially those enrolled in a LDT program degree or certificate, should now be using LionPATH for all of their student information needs, including:
Every student, every semester, begins with a hold on their LionPATH account that prevents the student from being eligible to register. The holds are administrative, and they are easy to fix.
Prior to registration, a student must accept a Financial Responsibility Agreement, and read through and complete a Pre-Registration Activity Guide. The University Registrar has help documentation about these tasks at this page under the heading Complete the Pre-Registration Activity Guide and sign the Financial Responsibility Agreement. Alternatively, you may click the image on the right to be taken to the video tutorial for the Activity Guide.
Clearing those two holds should then allow you to register. If you are still unable to register after clearing those holds, the most direct path to resolution is calling the World Campus Student Support group at 1-800-252-3592.
The Canvas course management system (CMS) offers useful features for pushing notices about our courses right to you. If this is your first semester using Canvas, then your settings might all be at the default, and you might want to receive better notices of those announcements. You can use this guide to adjust your personal notification settings.
If you have questions or issues with Canvas, your best bet is to contact the World Campus Help Desk, as those specialists are available and well-prepared to help you solve your technical problems. Information about contacting the Help Desk for technical support is here.
Term: Fall 2016 to Spring 2017 (duration: one academic year)
Description of Work: The candidate will be tasked with working alongside Reference Librarians at the Thun Library at Penn State Berks in a new project that will help to map all college course syllabi and learning objectives to the new Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy framework. [Read more…]
Summer 2016 courses for the LDT program begin on May 11. If you’ve not yet registered for your summer courses, please register as soon as possible.
This summer term’s registration is the last time that students will use eLion for course registration. World Campus students may also register for courses (now and in the future) by calling World Campus at 1-800-252-3592.
If you are a new Educational Technology Integration certificate student and you seek advice about courses, please be sure to read the standing advisement for certificate students, and then contact Dr. Kirby if questions persist.
If you are a new master’s degree student (M.Ed. in LDT), please correspond with your assigned advisor if you seek advice about courses.
The status of each of our Summer 2016 offerings is below.
LDT certificate and degree students may begin registering for Fall 2016 courses beginning Monday, May 2, 2016.
Online registration for courses offered in Fall 2016 and beyond will be achieved solely through LionPATH. eLion will no longer be used for course registration. World Campus students are also able to call World Campus student services at 1-800-252-3592 to register for courses over the telephone.
Students are able to see the Fall 2016 course schedule on LionPATH now, and that schedule is also below. Comprehensive LionPATH help documentation is available online. To search for LDT courses, sign in to LionPATH then click Main Menu –> Self-Service –> Class Search / Browse Catalog –> Class Search. You then see a search display, and you should select Campus = World Campus and Subject = LDT. Your search display will look like this: [Read more…]
The following documents are common requests from LDT students: [Read more…]
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…]
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.