On Thursday, January 5th, 2017, technologists at DoIT in Madison will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance impacting Desire2Learn between 8am and 11am. During this time, Desire2Learn will not be available. Access will be restored as soon as possible after the work has been completed.
If you have any questions about this outage, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
Motivating and Retaining Online Students: Research-Based Strategies that Work
By: Rosemary M Lehman and Simone C. O. Conceição
Motivating and Retaining Online Students is a research-based book which provides effective online strategies that help minimize student dropout, increase student retention, and support student learning. This group will include an opportunity to interact with one of the authors, allowing participants the chance to learn from her experience.
Facilitators: Nicole Weber ( Director of Learning Technology) & Elizabeth Simpson (Instructional Design Specialist)
Meeting dates/times: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 (January 31, February 14, February 28, March 14, March 28, April 11
Room: McGraw 1
To register for this book group, click here: Registration
Can you name one needed change that will advance student learning? Develop your idea, find partners, and write a formal proposal all in one day! Make January 20th a day of real change.
Higher education has always innovated at the intersection of precarities like economic hardship, gender, race, age, while also pursuing the development of public discourse that is predicated on educational outcomes aimed at empowering graduates for success. This Snowbox, or winter sandbox activity, is a place for broad-based collaborative engagements among faculty, academic staff, administration, and students, to catalyze and sustain a culture of Academic Innovation that relates high impact practices to our core principles such as inclusive excellence. The forecast is for a flurry of ideas!
The outcome of this blizzard of activity will be the formation of teams focused upon innovative problem solving in each of the following areas:
Each participant in the Snowbox workshop will receive a $100 stipend for the day, provided by the Provost. By the end of the day we expect a snowstorm of ideas and each person will be eligible to apply for the first cohort of the Academic Innovation Summer Institute 2017 (bring your sunscreen!).
Friday January 20, 8:30-4:00 pm
To register for the Snowbox: https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14964
Register before January 10, space is limited.
If you have any questions, contact David Reinhart, Academic Innovation Coordinator; reinhard@uww.edu.
The D2L eGrading process is now available for the Fall 2016 semester. This process allows instructors to transfer final grades from their Desire2Learn Gradebook directly to their WINS Grade Roster.
If you prefer step by step documentation, that can be found at: WINS eGrading Overview.
If you have any questions or concerns with the eGrading process, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
The UW System Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) Showcase 2017 will be held virtually April 4-5, 2017. Faculty, teaching staff and learning technology support staff – please join us and submit a proposal to present or facilitate by December 9, 2016! Proposals may be submitted at the following website: Virtual Showcase 2017
Our theme is Humanizing Learning, but feel free to submit any relevant topic that you feel strongly about. The idea behind the theme is that while we work with more technology than ever, the human touch is still a vital quality in regards to learning.
This virtual conference offers an opportunity for sharing your successes and challenges in teaching with technology. This conference will provide you with the opportunity to virtually connect with other practitioners and requires neither travel expense nor a significant time commitment.
All presentations will be conducted virtually with technology training and orientation available prior to the conference. The presentations will be approximately 30 minutes in length with 15 min Q&A following. Proposals are sought in the following six general categories:
We look forward to learning more about your teaching and learning experiences! If you have any questions contact the Learning Technology Center.
Winterim Instructors: On Thursday, January 5th, 2017 there will be scheduled infrastructure maintenance taking place between 8am and 11am. During this time, Desire2Learn will not be available. The scheduled work is not expected to take the entire time, and access will be restored as soon as possible after the work has been completed.
As you are working on and preparing your winterim courses, please adjust your course assignments and due dates accordingly.
If you have any questions about this outage, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
All University of Wisconsin-Whitewater faculty and staff are invited to participate in a campus-wide community of practice for online and blended education.
The Community of Practice for Online and Blended Education began in the spring of 2015, thanks to a grant from OPID. Its purpose is to serve as a campus-wide forum to develop, share, and document best practices in teaching online and blended (hybrid) courses at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In addition, it provides a support network for those teaching with technology.
The purpose of our meetings is to build community and meet others who are excited about teaching in the online and/or blended format.
Next Meeting:
Thursday December 1, 2016
2:00-3:30 pm, UC259a
Signup: https://my.uww.edu/signup/Registration/Details/14849
In this session, the recipients of the Community of Practice project grant will share the results of their projects. Two projects were funded: the development of an accessibility template for the ECE4U program, and the creation of assessment videos.
If you have questions about this please contact the Learning Technology Center at ltc@uww.edu or 262.472.1004.
On Friday, November 25, ICIT will be deploying the VBrick Rev 7.12 update to our environment between 7am and 2pm. During this time, the Rev system (http://streaming.uww.edu) will not be available. With no classes scheduled, Friday was chosen as the optimal window to minimize disruption to the campus
In this latest update, the following fixes and enhancements will be included:
If you have any questions or concerns about this update, please contact the Learning Technology Center.
Winterm 2017 and Spring 2017 courses requests are available in the D2L Course Request Application. As a reminder, course requests for a semester become available on the first day of priority registration for students. D2L courses need to be requested every semester.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
11-12pm, UC 262
Lunch included, please register by November 15, 2016
The final session of the active learning series will focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of the online/blended modalities. This session will focus on teaching strategies and tools, including options for collaborative work, discussions, blogs, wikis, clickers, and synchronous meetings. We will also have the opportunity for hands-on practice with the tools discussed.
Please register by November 15: Register Here