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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
Contact us: For more information on E-Learning Services, you can contact us at tel@umn.edu or 612-624-0084
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
- Digital Campus Web Site (digitalcampus.umn.edu) - Provides a single location where students and potential students can view descriptions, application information, course schedules, and resources for all U of M online credit and non-credit programs and certificates.
- Digital Campus Student Service Center (digitalcampus.umn.edu) - Gives potential and existing students (via phone, chat or email) information concerning which U of M online programs and courses are right for them and how to get started. Phone: 800-991-8636
- Digital Campus program marketing - Through the Digital Campus project, produces print and electronic materials and attends marketing events to promote the U of M's online and hybrid offerings.
- iTunes U (itunes.umn.edu) - Coordinates the U of M iTunes U project including work with faculty and maintenance of the U of M iTunes U website.
- Learning Platform (access at myu.umn.edu) - Provides an integrated set of academic tools to support student learning and faculty teaching. Tools include course management (Vista, Moodle), my Library, iTunes U.
- Metrics - Tracks latest data related to online and hybrid courses and programs offered at the University of Minnesota. Also tracks usage of myU/Learning Platform.
- MnLC (www.mnlc.info) - Represents U of M in Pre-K -20 partnership website providing information to students on online learning opportunities across the educational lifecycle and joint licensing of technology tools and educational materials.
- myU Portal (myu.umn.edu) - Provides comprehensive and personalized information for University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff including special "My Courses" and "My Library" pages, and integrated links to educational resources along with student and employee information.
- Online faculty course development workshop - Supports online workshop for faculty teams seeking to develop online courses.
- Online course and program development - Supports development of strategically important classes that provide core curriculum for online programs or help relieve "bottlenecks" in resident instruction.
- Online learning quality improvement - Coordinates the nationally recognized Quality Matters peer review program for online courses.
- Online process improvements - Works with partners to improve: listing and reporting online courses/programs; multi-campus online enrollment process; and academic policies to support online learning
- Program and course syndication - Works with select units to syndicate online course offerings to other institutions. Initial pilots have been carried out with the Alcohol and College Life course.
- Video production support - Provides financial support for the production of introductory faculty course videos and short academic video podcasts.
- Workforce Investment Act (WIA) clearinghouse - Coordinates WIA certification of U of M credit and non-credit courses to serve displaced workers.
- 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