This post serves as a reminder of the Educause 2009 Online conference that will be taking place in 120 Linton Hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday courtesy of Libraries, Computing and Technology and the College of Arts and Letters. We hope to see you there for all or part of this experience, including a presentation by [...]
November 4, 5 and 6, Libraries Computing and Technology and the College of Art and Letters will be hosting a live EDUCAUSE 2009 Virtual Conference in 120 Linton Hall. We have registered for this one location and have selected the presentations that will be shown, primarily focusing on topics for those of you interested in [...]
As announced by Byron Brown, the first in a series of presentations examining MSU’s LMS future.
Gerd Kortemeyer, Lyman Briggs College. Course management system demonstration/discussion: LON-CAPA.
TIME: THURSDAY, October 15, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: The Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall
“Including Quality in Your Online Courses: The ‘Quality Matters’ Program.”
TIME: Friday, September 25, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: 105 Natural Science Building.
The Quality Matters program was created a few years ago at the University of Maryland with support from the U.S. Department of Education, and it got tremendous play at conferences on online [...]
On 9/21/2009, The State News published an article about online learning, reaching out to not only students but also vuDAT’s Brendan Guenther, and instructors Dr. Stephen Thomas, Dr. Ethan Watrall and Dr. Yong Zhao. The article can be read here and offers a glimpse into students’ views of online learning, as well as what some [...]
The ANGEL administrators replaced the old database server with a new one, which has twice the capacity for load and use. This should improve ANGEL’s performance and reliability. The administrators continue to monitor the system. If you encounter issues, please notify Distance Learning Services at 5-2345 or 1-800-500-1554, so the problem can be diagnosed ASAP.
The following memo was sent to the Deans, Directors and Chairs this afternoon by ATS director Tom Davis, in response to the issues seen on the ANGEL system September 8 and 9, 2009:
The ANGEL service is currently experiencing severe performance issues, to
the point of being unusable during peak periods. These issues appear to be
directly related [...]
The following was posted to http://servicestatus.msu.edu this morning:
Additional database tuning was performed at both the application and database layer, in an attempt to stabilize the system. ANGEL has remained stable throughout the night, and we are continuing to closely monitor the system. The ANGEL vendor is still engaged and working closely with the Service Sponsors.
Some [...]
The following information on today’s ANGEL outage was just posted on MSU Service Status(http://servstatus.msu.edu) by the ANGEL service sponsors”
The ATS Service Sponsors along with the ANGEL vendor have made several modifications to ANGEL’s database in order to improve performance and stability. The system is functional, but heavily loaded. Content exchange has been turned off during [...]
Michael Feldstein published an article on his ‘e-literate’ blog today that lightly summarizes a webinar he attended hosted by the Delta Initiative, a consultancy group, in cooperation with the Cal State system. The post I’m referring to “The State of the LMS: An Institutional Perspective” provides a brief synopsis of the webinar as “an excellent, [...]
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