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April 2011

The New Normal in Distance Education: Adaption Stories A Virtual Four Week Professional Development Event

April 18th, 2011 | Written by: Jen-nien "Ryan" Yang

MSUglobal is assisting with the coordination of the 2011 NUTN Virtual Conference and has recently been given free access for all MSU faculty, staff and graduate students. The keynote for the online conference is on 4/18/2011 at 3pm by Dr. Terry Anderson (Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University) but will be recorded and made available online. The virtual conference also includes access to 6 hours of video presentations and four live chat sessions over the next four weeks.

Please e-mail rozeboo1@msu.edu from your MSU mail account for login information

Moodle Preview Server Now Available

April 15th, 2011 | Written by: Brendan Guenther

Yesterday Libraries, Computing and Technology made an announcement about our progress to-date and our plans for experimenting with and evaluating Moodle.  This has already attracted some attention locally in the State News, in the form of an article and subsequent op-ed, as well as a note o

EDUCAUSE Mobile Computing: A 5-day Sprint hosted at Wills House April 25th - April 29 2011

April 11th, 2011 | Written by: Keesa Muhammad

Join the Learning Design and Technology for any or all of these free, hour-long EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight on Mobile Computing web seminars, presented daily during the sprint at 1:00 p.m. ET (location at Wills House). The web seminars will allow you to interact with the guest speaker, host, and your fellow participants on the topics that interest you the most.