Virtual Training Events
Join us for highly focused sessions conducted by our expert trainers. Topics are geared to facilitate the development of strategies that will enhance online teaching, learning and administrative practices using Desire2Learn's suite of tools in the Learning Environment.
Learn more about our next session Opportunities to Reflect: ePortfolio
Nursing Collab
Faculty members of online nursing programs from many different academic institutions found each other through the ice breaker Discussions forum and are now able to exchange and develop resources together in the Community Nursing Collab. Members share how they are using multi-media programs to create tutorials. Mary Mcclay (Walla Walla University) uses Articulate to create SCORM modules in Desire2Learn.
As resources from the Nursing Collab are developed and shared, they will be published to the Community Learning Repository (LOR). If you are teaching or supporting online nursing programs in Desire2Learn and would like to join the collab, contact us at Community@Desire2Learn.com. As this area continues to grow, we will offer Self Registration on the Community.
Custom Widgets Course Opens in Share Area
If you can envision it, you can create it. Self Register for the Widgets Course to:
- View custom widgets created by other users
- Share your own custom widgets
- Collaborate on new designs
Once you have Self Registered, return to the Share area to access the course from News.
Now Playing in The Spoke
In our latest podcasts, top ranked FUSION 2008 presenters offer a sneak peek at their upcoming webinars from the Connect & Inspire Webinar series. Hear them speak about their own presentations before you register to attend the webinars in the series.
Building an Online World of Resources
The Community Learning Repository (LOR) is currently under construction. So don your hard hats and help us to build our shareable resources. Learning Repository supports metadata harvesting using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard to handle requests for metadata. This will open a whole new world of resources to the Community. To learn more, view the latest Learning Repository documentation in the Documentation Library.
If you have resources that you would like to share, publish your resources to the Test LOR in the Community and drop the Community Coordinator a line at Community@Desire2Learn.com so that we can publish them to the approved LOR.
Sue McKnight Named In Top 50 List of the UK's University Teachers
Sue McKnight
Congratulations to Sue McKnight, director, libraries and knowledge resources, Nottingham Trent University. The Desire2Learn user was awarded £10,000 in recognition of being named one of the UK's top university teachers. An independent panel of academics and students picked the winners on the basis of their innovative teaching techniques and feedback from students and colleagues. Learn more.
In Response
In Discussions you asked:
"I am also interested in your organization's approach/methods. What does your PD cover? How big is your audience? What are your levels of teacher engagement?"
When we have developed some of our course content I would be happy to share our experiences and methods with you.
We will be delivering:
- Information for teachers on 52 new senior secondary (yr 11 and 12) courses being launched in West Australia
- An internal organizational induction program
- Some internal training on our document management system
TerriLyn Brown shares ongoing professional development planning for the Calgary Board of Education. Read all about it and share the plans for your institution:
- Login to the Community.
- Click the Discussions link on the Navigation Bar.
- In the Introductions forum, click the Pleased to Meet You topic link.
- Show the Search options and select to search in First Name and Last Name.
- Type "Jesse Yuen" in the search bar.
Contribute to Your Desire2Learn Community
If you would like to contribute an article to an upcoming issue of 2gether, we'd like to hear from you. We are also always happy to listen to your ideas for the Community or 2gether. Contact us at Community@Desire2Learn.com
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