Penn State Learning Design Community Hub

Faculty Survey

We talked about how the Faculty Survey Carol and Brett posted could be efficiently revised. In particular, there were questions where the instructor had a long list of choices and it seemed liked some options could be chunked or simplified

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/FacPedSurvey

As a group we decided that we would split into committees to review each each section of the the survey (A,B,C,D). If you want to help with a section, please add your name to the pool in the Adobe Connect Meeting Room (http://breeze.psu.edu/allids).

Using the Learning Design Options

Elizabeth demoed the Hub and talked about how the group could contribute information. Brett

A. Forum Posts

This is a great way of asking questions and passing along news items, interesting finds and links to your cool resources. Detailed instructions are at the Help/FAQ link above (Brett put these up).

1. Click All Forums in the top menu.
2. Click the link for the forum which most closely matches your topic. If in doubt, click Random Topics.
3. If necessary, click the Login at top and log in with your Penn State Access ID and password.
4. Click the Post new forum topic at the top to open the posting form.
5. Fill in a Subject and appropriate tags/keywords in the free tagging field (these are added to the Tag Cloud at the right).
6. Fill in the Body. URLs and e-mail address will be converted to links by default. Tags such as a, b,i,ol,ul,li, dt, dd,dl are enabled.
8. Press Submit to send message. The message will be posted to the front page and the selected Forum.

Each Forum message includes a Comments link at the bottom of each message.

B. Comments to Pages

If you want to leave a comment about a project page (e.g. http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/FacPedSurvey), look for the Comments link at the bottom.

C. Edit Pages

Many users in the ID Lounge can edit project pages like http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/FacPedSurvey by clicking the Edit link at the top. If you are participating in a project, but can't see the edit link, please contact Elizabeth or Brett.

For now pages are in raw HTML, but Elizabeth will investigate some WYSIWYG options.

We hope this information helps. I would like to add that we don't expect posting the the Design Hub to be a full-time job.
If we assume 100 working instructional designers/educational technologist types at Penn State, and each of us just posts once every 3 months, we would still average more than one new post per day. A little bit could go a long way.