Technology Enhanced Learning

Vice Provost for Distributed Education & Instructional Technology


E-Learning Services

What is E-Learning? A complete system that ensures access to technologies that improve the learning environment for students, faculty, and staff, whether on-campus, online, or on-site.

E-Learning Services: The Office of the Vice Provost for Distributed Education and Instructional Technology (VP-DEIT) helps to set the strategic e-learning agenda at the U of M. In addition, the VP-DEIT, in partnership with the Office of Information Technology and other collegiate and administrative units, directly operates, develops, and pilots key e-learning technologies and services to support U of M students, faculty and staff members, and guests. For the latest news in Technology Enhanced Learning, check out our blog (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/tel/blog/).



Current E-Learning Services Supported by the VP-DEIT

E-Learning Services Currently Under Development or Being Piloted by the VP-DEIT

  • CENTSS - By way of a pilot project with the Center for Allied Health, evaluating how to use the CENTSS methodology to improve delivery of student services to online and hybrid learners.

  • Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) - Working with multiple U of M units to acquire a system to provide better service for students across the lifecycle from pre-college through professional development.

  • Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Grant - Providing technological support for the educational components of the University of Minnesota NIH grant (under review).

  • eFolio Minnesota - Via a pilot project, evaluating the applicability at the U of M of the newly enhanced Minnesota electronic portfolio system (currently used in K-12 and at MnSCU).

  • Faculty and staff views for myU - Enhancing current faculty and staff view to provide additional content and features for U of M employees.

  • Learning repository for sharing online learning objects/content - Pilot-testing the Equella learning object repository, which will provide U of M instructors the opportunity to store content once and selectively share learning objects across their different courses, locate and use content generated from other institutions, and manage peer evaluation of learning content quality.

  • Lifelong Learning Web site - Revising the existing web site to provide access to all of the distributed professional development and personal enrichment offerings from across the University of Minnesota.

  • Mobile myU - In partnership with OIT, developing a version of myU designed to display course resources on mobile devices.

  • myU Portal version III - Developing requirements for the next generation of the myU system with an improved user interface, real time data feeds and integration with additional academic tools such as Google Apps.

  • Non-credit registration - Developing with CCE and OIT an enhanced university-wide registration system; producing an RFP for a next generation U-wide system for registration and non-credit transcripts.

  • One45 healthcare education administration software - Integrating tool to map curriculum to student competency tracking and collegiate accreditation. Pilot currently under way in the Medical School.

  • Online course and content sharing - Licensing the National Repository of Online Courses, enabling U of M faculty to use previously developed learning objects/content in their courses.

  • Pachyderm - Enhancing the web-based, template-driven, multimedia authoring system for developing online learning content modules.

  • uSelect transfer - Working with a multi-state online tool for students and advisors for determining course equivalencies, and applicability of coursework when transferring between schools.

  • Web conferencing and webinars - Partnering with OIT to produce faculty and staff development materials encouraging the use of web conferencing and webinars; upgrading the software version and license to support increased use and an expanded feature set.

Contact us: For more information on E-Learning Services, you can contact us at tel@umn.edu or 612-624-0084