News
Starting on December 20, 2013, courses that are two years old, development courses that have been inactive for two years, and groups that have been inactive for six months in MSU’s ANGEL system will be deleted.
Associated content and records for these courses will also be deleted.
The processThe ANGEL User Support Team is sending specific messages out to affected course and group administrators listing the courses and groups scheduled for deletion. Read Full Article →
IT Services will offer two days of no-cost workshops on research and instructional technology on December 17 and 18. These seminars are also open to graduate assistants (teaching and research).
The workshops are designed to support faculty, academic staff, and graduate assistants in their teaching and research roles by providing seminars led by experts in online learning, and instruction in the use of a variety of software tools. Read Full Article →
IT Services launched the OAuth 2.0 protocol as another authentication option for MSU developers, units, departments, and colleges.
OAuth provides secure authorization to certain details or attributes of a user without the application needing to receive the user’s password.
Additionally, OAuth doesn’t require client software to be installed for an application to use it and is programming language agnostic. Read Full Article →
19th Annual Online Sloan C
International Conference on Online Learning
Hosted at Wills House MSU
November 20–22, 2013
Online Learning: A Universe of Opportunities
MSU Learning Design and Technology would like to welcome you to participate in the 19th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning at Wills house. Read Full Article →
IT Services created an Action Plan to inform the MSU community of the strategic direction IT Services is taking in the 2013-2014 academic year.
This plan was prompted by Michigan State University’s Bolder by Design strategic framework.
The Action Plan explains the specific actions and milestones IT Services is committed to achieving in order to make a difference to the MSU community over the next year. Read Full Article →
MSU LEARNING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (LearnDAT) invites you to attend the next session in our ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices.
DATE: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
PLACE: Main Library, North Conference Room, 4th Floor, West Wing
TIME: 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (8:30 a.m. Read Full Article →
IT Services is warning computer users about a particularly vicious kind of malware, called CryptoLocker.
How CryptoLocker worksCryptoLocker encrypts or freezes large parts of a Windows PC’s hard drive, then asks the user to pay to regain access.
Once CryptoLocker installs itself, it contacts a remotely operated server run by criminals, called a command-and-control server. Read Full Article →
IT Services launched a “sandbox” of the newest version of Desire2Learn (D2L) at next.d2l.msu.edu for immediate play and experimentation before the full upgrade in December.
This sandbox is only for trying out and previewing, not for live teaching. All content remaining in the sandbox will be lost in the next upgrade. Read Full Article →
Michigan State University obtained a license for faculty and instructors to use the Eli Review online peer review platform at no cost to them or students beginning with a fall 2013 semester pilot and running through the next two academic years.
Eli Review allows instructors to create peer-review opportunities that help students learn how to become better writers through a write, review, and revise process. Read Full Article →
November 5–7 | 12:00 noon–3:30 p.m. ET
How Online Innovations Are Transforming Learning
Location: Wills House, MSU
Join us November 5, 6, and 7 for the ELI 2013 Fall Focus Session, "How Online Innovations Are Transforming Learning," hosted at Learning Design and Technology (LearnDAT) where you'll exchange ideas and collaborate interactively with the teaching and learning community—all without leaving MSU!. Read Full Article →
