E-Learning Services
E-Learning Services is happy to help faculty and students maximize their online teaching and learning experience. Part of the School of Learning Resources, E-Learning Services provides coaching in online course design and training for a variety of teaching applications used at NNU.
NNU's Online Programs
E-Learning Technologies (the programs we support)
Schedule for Learning Opportunities
E-Learning Services Team
E-Learning Technologies
Blackboard
Blackboard is the Course Management System at Northwest Nazarene University, used to conduct fully online courses and to supplement face-to-face courses.
Blackboard Support for Faculty
Blackboard Support for Students
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Announcement: Northwest Nazarene University will make a transition from the Blackboard course management system to Angel Learning in Spring 2010. Face-to-face or online training is now available for instructors and support personnel. Please visit the Blackboard-to-Angel page for an overview video and details on the Learning Opportunities.
ePortfolios
Electronic portfolios allow students to build resumes and showcase their work for assessment by faculty and recruiting by employers. For the 2009-10 academic year, NNU is continuing to pilot the use of Folio by ePortaro.
Streaming Media
A do-it-yourself station for creating streamed content is available in Media Technology (Wiley Learning Center), or E-Learning Assistants can take care of this for you.
TurnItIn
NNU licenses this plagiarism-detection software to encourage academic integrity. Support and training materials are available for both faculty and students on the NNU TurnItIn support page.
Web 2.0
The phenomenon of social learning can have great impact on a course. NNU licenses Campus Pack by Learning Objects to help instructors incorporate wikis, blogs and podcasts into the academic environment. On the Web 2.0 support page, find definitions and resources.
Schedule for Learning Opportunities
See www.nnu.edu/angel for the current schedule.
E-Learning Services Team
Our office is located on the lower level of the Emerson Administration Building. You are welcome to visit us at any time, or to request a consultation in your own office.
ELS Open House
E-Learning Services will hold an Open House to show off our new office. Come enjoy refreshments any time between 1 and 3 p.m. on Monday, November 30, at our new digs in the lower level of the Emerson Administration Building.
E-Learning Director
Dr. Christine Bauer assists online programs in shaping the overall course design and shares best practices for teaching and learning online. As chair of the E-Learning Committee, she also helps to guide policy development.
Christine has been in the online teaching/learning field since 1995. She completed her Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University in 2003.
Office hours: Mondays, Thursdays or by appointment
Telephone: (208) 467-8240
E-mail: CHBauer(at)nnu.edu
Instructional Technologist for E-Learning
Crystal Nielsen, M.A., develops and delivers training to faculty, students and staff in the use of Blackboard and other applications. She also assists instructors with pedagogical concerns, especially where technologies may help achieve desired goals.
Crystal earned her Master's degree in Educational Technology from San Diego State University in 2003 and her B.A. in writing/journalism from Point Loma Nazarene College.
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Telephone: (208) 467-8782
E-mail: cdnielsen(at)nnu.edu
E-Learning Systems Manager
Carlyle King, M.S., manages Blackboard accounts, courses and enrollments and handles the back-end development of the ePortfolio system. A key responsibility is to provide Tier 2 troubleshooting for issues related to e-learning, thereby keeping those systems running smoothly.
Carlyle holds a master's degree in educational technology from Boise State University and a bachelor's degree in information systems from Western Washington University.
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain
Telephone: (208) 467-8111 (TRC)
E-mail: help(at)nnu.edu (TRC)
E-Learning Assistants
We also have E-Learning TAs on staff during the academic year to help faculty and adjuncts with course development using Blackboard and other online technologies, such as:
- exporting content between Masters and Official shells
- creating online tests
- preparing streamed media
- making course banners, and
- other projects both basic and complex that either you do not do very often or that are time-consuming
To request help from an E-Learning Assistant, please e-mail your need to elearning(at)nnu.edu and include as many details as possible, or call Crystal Nielsen (208-467-8782). She will assign the task to one or both assistants.
Technical Response Center
Our help desk is the Technical Response Center, which provides support to all employees and students regarding Blackboard courses and user accounts, NNU e-mail, computer access, streaming media, phones and other applications. The TRC is a unit of Information Technology.
TRC location: Emerson second floor
TRC hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain time
Student TAs available evenings and Saturday afternoons
Telephone: (208) 467-8111
E-mail: help@nnu.edu
