Students enrolled in the M.Ed. in LDT program who have completed 15 or more credits are invited to enroll in our new edition of LDT 835 — Supervised Field Experience in Online Instruction. This edition of LDT 835 is geared for those with interest in learning design for online resources as it occurs in corporate, commercial, organizational, and higher education environments. The description offers additional insight: [Read more…]
Students enrolled in the M.Ed. in LDT program are required to complete the Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI) training requirement prior to graduation. The LDT Online M.Ed. in LDT program has received permission to offer our own version of the SARI training that is customized to the typical work and professional settings of our field. The training is fully online and fully asynchronous and requires a few hours per week for three weeks. There is no cost to sign-up for and complete the SARI training requirement for our program—it is a non-credit requirement.
If you are a World Campus M.Ed. in LDT student, and have not yet completed the SARI training, then we ask you to register for and complete the next offering of this training. The next offerings for the training will be: [Read more…]
Below you will find a few key points for your successful navigation of the LDT program. Current students completing a postbaccalaureate certificate offered by the LDT Program may find the responses below helpful.
Greetings all! We’re rolling into the Summer 2019 term. The spring-t0-summer transition is always a hot one for us—we attend graduation on Sunday, and open the summer courses on Monday.
Registration for Summer 2019 courses is drawing to a close. Some sections are full, some have wait lists, and some are ready for enrollment. Contact your assigned academic advisor or Dr. Kirby with questions about course selection.
Summer 2019 courses open on Monday, 6 May 2019. [Read more…]
Students enrolled in the current versions of two LDT courses no longer need to purchase a printed textbook thanks to a partnership among the LDT Program, World Campus, and the University Libraries. The textbooks for LDT 440- Educational Technology Integration, and LDT 832 – Course Design for Learning Management Systems are now available digitally via the University Libraries.
To access these textbooks, go to [Read more…]
Fall 2019 course registration opens to LDT students according to their program (degree or certificate) and the number of credits earned. The timetable for Fall 2019 course registrations is displayed in the following table:
| Course Offering Term | Student Category | Registration Open Date |
|---|---|---|
| Summer 2019 | All students (M.Ed., Certificate, nondegree) | 2/4/2019 |
| Fall 2019 | M.Ed. students w/ 20+ credits earned | 3/21/2019 |
| Fall 2019 | Admitted M.Ed. students (0+ credits earned) | 3/26/2019 |
| Fall 2019 | Accepted certificate students, and nondegree students | 4/9/2019 |
The LDT Program will offer seven courses during the Fall 2019 term. Following the table showing the scheduled courses we will offer registration advice for the various categories of our students.
Dr. Kirby, the program coordinator for the LDT Online Programs, and advisor of all postbaccalaureate certificate students (EDTECH, ELEARN, TLOK12), will be away on leave from approximately 15 July 2019 to 5 August 2019.
Please contact him prior to 10 July 2019 to properly discuss any questions you may have about the Fall 2019 term.
During Dr. Kirby’s leave, he will be serving as the Chief of Staff for Program at the 24th World Scout Jamboree, hosted in West Virginia (USA). The College of Education published a profile of his service as an educator in Scouting.
During the fall and spring terms, students can know the date when the regular drop period ends by looking at the University’s academic calendar. The LDT Online Program’s fall and spring courses generally adhere to the university’s standard schedule for full-term courses.
In the summer, the LDT program offers a number of compressed courses that do run the full length of the summer term. Confirming the date that marks the end of the regular drop period for that specific course requires some quick research in LionPATH by the student.
The University Registrar’s office has produced a visual tutorial to show students how to look up the details of their specific schedule for a specific course. [Read more…]
Sometimes the need arises to drop a course that you currently enrolled in. While this process seems simple, especially in the era of instantaneous digital communication, there are a number of considerations about course drops that impact the consequences that a student might experience as a result of decision.
The World Campus Dropping a Course reference page details the drop process. The reference page includes a video tutorial showing how to drop a course using LionPATH.
LDT students do not need instructor permission to drop a course. LDT students do not need academic advisor approval to drop a course. LDT students do not need to fill out any forms from the Graduate School to drop a course. If you drop a course with LionPATH you should not be asked for additional permissions, approvals, or forms.
There’s an important distinction in terminology between drop and withdrawal. Discontinuing enrollment in a single course (or multiple single courses) is called a “drop” at Penn State. When a student withdraws, s/he is discontinuing enrollment in all courses, and effectively ending their student relationship with the university for the term. If a student is registered to take only one course in a term then drops that one course without entering another available course, that action is considered a withdrawal. The instructions for reducing your credit hours to zero and withdrawing from the term are found on this page.
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.
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…]