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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.

CryptoLocker 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 →

The Michigan State University Police Department is investigating an attempted theft of employee direct-deposit payroll earnings.

On Friday, October 18, two employees reported receiving email confirmation of a change in their direct-deposit designation.

Police say that valid credentials (MSU NetID and password) were used by a perpetrator to modify the employees’ banking information on the EBS HR/Payroll (SAP) system. Read Full Article →

IT Services shared further details with the IT community about the network outage on September 25 at the IT Exchange meeting on October 10.

The September 25 network outage started just before 1:00 p.m. in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences (BPS) building where traffic containing millions of MAC addresses originated.

This traffic at BPS was processed by the Tier 1 network switches using a significant amount of memory. Read Full Article →

MSU LEARNING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (LearnDAT) invites you to attend the next session in the ongoing Breakfast Series: Conversations on Online Pedagogy and Best Practices. 

DATE:        Wednesday, October 9, 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 →