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Thursday, Sept. 14 | 1:30 p.m. | Library 124

Don’t miss your colleagues, Travis Dolence and Jean Kramer, as they walk through Integrating Library Services into D2L Brightspace, the first of a yearlong series from Online & Extended Learning and the Faculty Development Center – Supercharge your Courses with D2L Brightspace. Each attendee will leave with knowledge of Library resources and a handout.

To register, check your email or contact Online & Extended Learning via support@mnstate.edu or 218.477.2603, option 3.

Please join Provost Joseph Bessie in congratulating MSUM’s newly tenured and promoted faculty members, and wishing them continued success in their careers.  Read the rest of this entry →

With fall semester just beginning, Travis Dolence is offering assistance with your distance education classes. As the Distance Learning Librarian, Dolence is dedicated to helping you and your students and can provide assistance in the following ways:  Read the rest of this entry →

Thursday, May 12 | 7-8 p.m. | Library Porch Read the rest of this entry →

With faculty beginning to plan for summer and fall semesters, Travis Dolence is offering assistance with your distance education classes. As the Distance Learning Librarian, Dolence is dedicated to helping you and your students locate quality research materials and assistance.

• Creating online course-specific “pathfinders” or help sheets for Library resources. These online help sheets can be tailored for any class and can included web resources, library databases,books, etc. (see examples at http://libguides.mnstate.edu/)
• Acting as library liaison for distance learning students. Many students appreciate having a “point-person” to help them with questions and direct them to assistance. Read the rest of this entry →

With Summer Semester here, Travis Dolence is offering assistance with your distance education classes. As the Distance Learning Librarian, Dolence is dedicated to helping you and your students locate quality research materials and assistance.

*Creating online course-specific “pathfinders” or help sheets for Library resources. These online help sheets can be tailored for any class and can included web resources, library databases,books, etc. (see examples at http://libguides.mnstate.edu/) Read the rest of this entry →

With summer semester here, Travis Dolence is offering assistance with distance education classes. As the Distance Learning Librarian, Dolence is dedicated to helping you and your students locate quality research materials and assistance.

• Creating online course-specific “pathfinders” or help sheets for Library resources. These online help sheets can be tailored for any class and can included web resources, library databases, books, etc. (see examples at http://libguides.mnstate.edu/)
• Acting as library liaison for distance learning students. Many students appreciate having a \”point-person\” to help them with questions and direct them to assistance. Read the rest of this entry →

If you are a faculty member who has previously had materials on the library’s electronic reserves system and would like to activate your summer classes, contact Jenny Jensen (jensnjen@mnstate.edu or 477-2342) in the library. She will send you a paper copy of the materials you have had on electronic reserves and we will be able to re-activate those materials. Additional materials may be submitted using the electronic submission form.

For faculty who are new to e-reserves, it is not too late to begin putting your materials in the library’s electronic reserves system for your classes. The advantage of using e-reserves is that your students can access your course reserves materials 24/7 from virtually anywhere, and multiple students can access the materials at the same time. Read the rest of this entry →

Distance Learning Librarian Travis Dolence is available to help faculty and students locate quality research materials and assistance.

* Creating online course-specific “pathfinders” or help sheets for Library resources. These online help sheets can be tailored for any class and can included web resources, library databases, books, etc. (see examples at http://libguides.mnstate.edu/ ) Read the rest of this entry →

Travis Dolence, Distance Learning Librarian, is dedicated to helping faculty and students locate quality research materials and assistance. Here are some examples of what services he provides:

* Creating online course-specific “pathfinders” or help sheets for Library resources. These online help sheets can be tailored for any class and can included web resources, library databases, books, etc. (see examples at http://libguides.mnstate.edu/ )
* Acting as library liaison for distance learning students. Many students appreciate having a “point-person” to help them with questions and direct them to assistance.
* Collaborating in course management software (e.g., Moodle or D2L). For example, I am happy to be added to the class as an instructor, so that I can directly assist students with research questions via message boards, chats, etc.
* Providing library/information literacy instruction. There are several models that can be used to provide instruction to distance learners: Read the rest of this entry →

Congratulations to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, and also to Travis Dolence, MSUM’s Distance Learning Librarian, for being recognized by MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) with a “MERLOT Outstanding Partner Award” for significant contributions and support to academic technologies and educational leadership. This award is reserved for partner institutions with a five-year history as a MERLOT Higher Education Partner or Affiliate. Dolence is on the Editorial Board for MERLOT’s Library and Information Services division. He’ll be attending the Sloan Consortium/MERLOT/MoodleMoot symposium, “Emerging Technologies for Online Learning,” July 20-23, 2010, in San Jose, Calif. MnSCU will be recognized during a special ceremony at the conference for its work with MERLOT.