“I believe my thoughts were taken into consideration,” said Tammy Fong-Morgan, an associate professor of Spanish at the South Bend campus who was involved in one of the university’s three LMS pilots.Ĭanvas by Instructure now is fully functioning at all of Indiana’s campuses after a two-year implementation process that began with the 2014-15 academic year. We needed to factor in all those things that faculty and students had to say.”įaculty members say they were heard. “We needed to do a pilot with each of the companies, and ask instructors and students for feedback. “We approached this with a reasonable amount of rigor, especially because we are doing more and more with online teaching and online proctoring,” Morrone added. Morrone, associate vice president for learning technologies at the Indiana University System. Whose idea was this anyway?’ comments,” said Anastasia S. “We didn’t have very many ‘You ruined my life. Just follow the directions located at (make sure that your browser is set to support “third-party cookies”).The Indiana University System’s relatively pain-free implementation of its new learning management during the past two academic years is being called “amazing” and “surprising” by faculty members and administrators. To get a clearer idea of the advantages of the IU eText reader and see how it works, consider taking a look at the course demo in which you’ll have access to several eTexts from different academic fields. Students have access to their eTexts as long as they are enrolled at Indiana University.Students are able to print the text without any additional fee furthermore, they could print the text with comments or just their comments.Students are able to share their eText comments with each other and the instructor.Students are able to highlight text with multiple colors and to annotate it with comments.
Students are able to access the digital version of the textbook through Oncourse via any device that has a web browser (e.g., computer, laptop, tablets, smartphones).Here is a summary of key information about the IU e-text initiative, in case you might be interested in including eTexts in your courses in the upcoming semesters:
Instructors who were considering using eTexts for their spring course had until Octoto submit their requests to determine the availability and cost of the desired electronic text books. Due to the fact that eTexts are available online, students can have access to them at any time and any place, even right from their cell phones, and no longer need to carry heavy books wherever they go. In order to get this low price, all students within the course will be assessed an eText fee which is somehow similar to a lab fee. eTexts are remarkably more affordable than new textbooks the cost of IU eTexts will be just 35% of the original textbook. The two main attributes contributing to the promotion of eTexts are affordability and accessibility. Indiana University joins a few other universities which have also implemented this emerging technology such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin. After a two-year pilot which included over 1,000 students from different academic departments, the Indiana University e-Text initiative will be expanded to all campuses and departments in Spring 2012.
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