LDT Online MEd

For Students of the Learning, Design, and Technology Programs

Midsummer 2016 Update

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Tulips in front of Penn State shield

The summer term always brings about changes for university types. Current part-time students are often looking to take more courses during the summer, while full-time students often take fewer courses. Members of the faculty use the summer to teach, conduct research, catch up on projects, or spend time with their families. Support staff members are closing out last year’s reports, records, and accounts, and starting up the new fiscal year. Administrators are often starting or ending assignments, projects, and programs during the summer. Prospects and new students are making inquiries and applications, learning of admission decisions, and registering for their first courses. All of the above applies to the LDT program faculty, staff, students, and administrators. [Read more…]

Fall 2016 Registration Update

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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…]

Do everything in LionPATH

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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:

  • Registering for courses
  • Dropping courses before the official start of the course
  • Reviewing grades, transcripts, and schedules
  • Paying bills

Screenshot of LionPATH Launch Page for Graduate Students

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Mid-May 2016 LDT Online Update

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Most Summer 2016 courses offered by the LDT program are underway, and enrollment is strong. Many of our courses filled to capacity, and the remainder were enrolled at expected levels. Thank you to our students who enrolled early.

Nittany Lion Shrine viewed through a blossoming plum tree.Speaking of early enrollment, registration for Fall 2016 courses is now open via LionPATH! If you’ve not yet registered for our offerings in the Fall term, please don’t delay. You will not need to pay for your courses at the time of enrollment—registration and billing are separate processes, and your final balance for Fall courses will be due in mid-August.

If your personal or professional situation changes and you face a need to drop a course, there’s a specialized and directed procedure for World Campus students to drop a course. Note that there’s a difference in terminology that sometimes causes momentary confusion: a single course is dropped, but dropping all courses is called a withdrawal—you are withdrawing from the university for a whole semester (or longer). There are differing financial ramifications and administrative requirements for a drop versus a withdrawal.

To peek at the back-office side of our program, this summer we’re busy developing neLooking onto the Penn State University Park campus from the flower beds of the Arboretum at Penn Statew courses and new certificate programs to broaden our offeringsfor our students. We hope to roll-out complete revisions and as well as new courses in the upcoming 12 to 18 months. Course development and delivery to a Penn State level of quality is a highly involved process, so we’re chipping away. Given that Penn State believes that A Penn State Course is a Penn State Course regardless of campus, location, or instructor, our work to deliver online courses that equal the courses taught on-campus is comprehensive. We’re excited about what lies ahead for us.

Good luck to all of our students for their summer courses. And a warm welcome to our newest students.

There’s a hold on my LionPATH account!?

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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.Cover slide of the Registrar's LionPath Pre-Registration Activity Guide

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.

Canvas tip: Setting Communication Preferences

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Partial screen preview of the Canvas help center article about notification preferencesThe 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.

Special Assistantship Opportunity for LDT Students

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Information Literacy Design Assistantship, Internship, or Fellowship

Thun Library, Penn State Berks

Term: Fall 2016 to Spring 2017 (duration: one academic year)Penn State Berks Campus

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 Course Registration Update – April

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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.

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Fall 2016 LDT Course Registration Update

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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…]

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