The Electronic Learning Network

Community | Participation Technologies

The OIT-ELN is experimenting with open-source, database-driven, Web 2.0 technologies in order to facilitate an extended conversation about instructional technology at DSU that is both user-centered and user-constructed.

To date, the community includes a blog (from which you may also vlog or podcast), a wiki, and a survey tool. The blog is your resource—a searchable repository of information about instructional technologies and e-learning at DSU—but also your forum—a place where you can tell your colleagues about techniques and/or technologies you've found useful in your teaching.

Faculty and staff contributions to the OIT-ELN Blog Project are edited and published to a discrete URL; faculty and staff are encouraged think about their blog entries as a service to the university community as well as a syndicated (albeit not peer-reviewed) publication.

Faculty and staff may join in with DSU students as part of the DSUflickr Group, which has been set up both to collect great photos of DSU as well as illustrate the collective power of social networking technologies.

Unlike the Blog and Wiki, the OIT-ELN Survey Project available to faculty to use in their teaching and research. The OIT-ELN will use the application for all of its surveys this fall, and hopes to open it up to faculty in the spring.

• • Blog

    Read (view or listen to) what your colleagues are saying about their experience with instructional technologies via the OIT-ELN Blog.

  • Flickr

    Witness an example of purposeful social networking, and view some great photos of DSU.

  • Survey

    Want to know more about faculty e-learning skill sets and practices at DSU? Have a look at what the OIT-ELN is surveying this year and check back for the findings.