2004 - 2005 Calendar
Director
Vaughan, A.M., B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed Memorial, M.A. British
Columbia
Associate Director/Director of STEM~Net
Parsons, N., B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., MBA Memorial
Associate Director
Hyde, R., B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed. Memorial
Manager, Instructional Development Office
Bragg, E.M., B.A.(Ed) Memorial, M.A. St. Francis
Xavier, D.Ed. Toronto
Administrative Staff
Mahon, P., Secretary
Porter, C., Administrative Staff Specialist
MEDIA PRODUCTION SERVICES
INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE
Distance Education and Learning Technologies (DELT) is a service unit
focused on meeting the demand for Memorial University of Newfoundland's
credit courses and programs for students who have limited access to
opportunities as a result of challenges of time and location.
DELT works with faculties/schools to develop, deliver, and maintain
distance education courses and programs. In addition, DELT provides
on-campus academic support services through the Instructional Development
Office, Classroom Support Services, and Media Production Services. STEM~Net,
a service unit for the K-12 education system, is a partner of DELT.
For information concerning non-credit programs such as personal and
professional development and certificate and diploma programs contact
the Division of Lifelong Learning.
Distance Education and Learning Technologies (DELT) delivers Memorial University
of Newfoundland’s degree and certificate credit courses and programs to distance
education students across the province and around the world. DELT offers
more than 350 courses, in 26 different disciplines and 10 different
faculties/schools to more than 14,000 student registrations annually. Always
innovative, DELT offers over 200 of these courses online. Bachelors’ degrees
are available in business, maritime studies, nursing, social work, and technology;
Masters’ degrees are offered in education and nursing.
Distance education provides on-campus students a flexible
course schedule and students unable to attend a Memorial University
of Newfoundland campus, an opportunity to continue their education
without having to leave family or work commitments to do so.
Distance Education and Learning Technologies works with
academic units and professors to develop, manage and deliver the
University’s distance education programs. Through the student services
office, DELT serves as a point of contact for distance education students.
Specifically, this office provides students with their course materials.
Distance education courses are delivered through the use
of multimedia including print materials (e.g. manual, collection
of readings, textbook), web based, CD/video programs and in limited
courses, teleconference sessions.
The strength of the University’s distance education courses
is the standard of instruction that is equivalent to on-campus courses.
In many cases, the same professor will teach both the on-campus as
well as the distance course. Students receive full university credit
for distance education courses (excluding certificate credit courses
of the certificate programs in Career Development, Criminology, Municipal
Administration, and Library Studies).
For information concerning certificate programs, contact
Division of Lifelong Learning:
Tel.: (709) 737-7979, Fax: (709) 737-8486
For further information on distance education, please contact:
Tel.: (709) 737-8700
Tel (Toll Free): (866) 435-1396
Fax: (709) 737-4070
Website: www.distance.mun.ca
Email: distance@mun.ca
MEDIA PRODUCTION
SERVICES
The media production services encourage and support innovative
teaching practices through the application of instructional technologies
in both on-campus teaching and distance education. In addition, it provides
high-end media support for research, public relations, and other university
activities. Product examples range from the University’s convocation
and basketball broadcasts to award-winning documentaries developed with
various academic units and a large volume of high quality teaching video
used in distance education courses.
The University’s media production unit offers a wide range
of professional media development, production, post-production, and
distribution services. Video services include broadcast-quality studio
and mobile facilities, and production services such as digital cameras,
AVID non-linear editing, digitization, international standards conversion,
tape and CD-ROM duplication, and distribution by satellite and the Internet.
Graphics specialties include print layout and design, illustration,
television graphics and animation, 3D visualization, and design for
the World Wide Web. Technical staff offers consultation, design, installation,
and maintenance services for multimedia teaching facilities. Distance
education services include working with faculty members in conjunction
with the distance instructional designers to develop the courses and teaching
methods appropriate for distance delivery. In addition, the publications
unit coordinates the development of the innovative multimedia distance
teaching resources.
Classroom Support Services provides multimedia and audiovisual
support for teaching in the classrooms of the South Campus. It provides
and delivers portable classroom equipment and the support of fixed
media facilities.
For further information on media production services, please
contact:
Tel: (709) 737-7575
Fax: (709) 737-4635
INSTRUCTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
The Instructional Development Office offers support to the
University’s faculty members and graduate students in the enhancement
of their teaching knowledge and skills. The Office espouses a collaborative,
responsive, and pragmatic approach to developing services and programs
related to teaching and learning.
Among the services provided are professional development
workshops and seminars, and individual and small group consultations.
Support is given for awards applications, administration of course
evaluations, and other activities and initiatives that recognize the
importance of university teaching. The News, a faculty newsletter about
teaching and learning, is published three times a year and a resource
centre offers a collection of books, journals, newsletters, and video
programs about instruction.
For information on instructional development services, please
contact:
Tel.: (709) 737-8629
Fax: (709) 737-4635
E-mail: instrdev@mun.ca
Please direct inquiries to avaughan@mun.ca.
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