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Summer Sessions: On-Budget, On-Time, Online Posted by: bodewedl / March 1, 2017 March 1, 2017 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Despite a long and lingering winter, it is almost time for PLU students to begin planning for summer. Instructors and advisers have an opportunity to talk with students about the advantages of participating in Summer Sessions. Consider how online summer courses at PLU can meet a variety of student needs: On-Budget PLU online summer courses are budget-friendly and

Helping Students “Stay Connected” This Summer Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer You may have noticed PLU promoting a new summer session campaign called “Stay Connected”. The campaign hopes to improve retention, decrease time to matriculation, and increase enrollments in summer session courses. A February 2015 survey of PLU students found:     86% have never enrolled in a PLU summer course.     76% plan to work over summer break.     59

Where’s my Sakai course? Posted by: Jenna S / January 7, 2013 January 7, 2013 After you’ve logged into Sakai, your Sakai courses will be listed as tabs across the top of the Sakai window. If you are enrolled in more courses than fit across the page, the right-most tab will be called ‘My Active Sites’. This tab contains all your courses listed by semester. Note that not all PLU courses have corresponding Sakai sites. It may take as long as 24 hours after you register for a class before your

great if there was a simple checklist to help you review your course’s design? Well, read on… In support of the PLUTO Institute and initiatives, PLU holds an institutional subscription to the Quality Matters (QM) Program. The program rubric contains 44 standards to assess the design of online and blended courses. Quality Matters standards are based on best practices and help to guide the development of quality courses while providing a process for peer review. With PLU’s subscription to Quality

PLU Forges a New International Partnership for Continuing Education Posted by: Silong Chhun / August 20, 2021 August 20, 2021 Pacific Lutheran University is partnering with SkillUp Online, a private education company headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in North America (Bellevue, Washington) and Europe, to provide a range of affordable, online, continuing education technology and soft-business skills courses to local, national, and global communities.The initial launch of program

New engineering minor offers students invaluable internship opportunity Posted by: vcraker / March 23, 2022 March 23, 2022 Pacific Lutheran University leaders recently announced two new natural sciences programs. Officially launching in fall 2022, students will be able to pursue a major in applied mathematics and/or a minor in engineering and industry. The engineering and industry minor will take advantage of courses already offered by the university’s physics department to students in the Dual

PLU announces new mathematics major, engineering minor Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 14, 2022 March 14, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University leaders recently announced two new natural sciences programs. Officially launching in fall 2022, students will be able to pursue a major in applied mathematics and/or a minor in engineering and industry.The applied mathematics major builds upon the existing mathematics courses, incorporates

If you lived with your classmates, what would learning look like? Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 2, 2018 April 2, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsFor many college students, residence halls are the fertile grounds of first-year camaraderie from which lifelong friendships spring. At Pacific Lutheran University, students get to roll that experience over to the classroom by enrolling in courses thematically linked to their Residential Learning Communities (RLCs) — an

they liked and disliked about how Sakai was used in their courses. All students interviewed said they had taken courses where some tools on the Sakai site menu were not used. They described their frustration as a scavenger hunt where they clicked on the tool menu item but found a dead end with no content, wondering why the tool was even there or if they had missed something. When you create your Sakai site, it includes a default set of commonly used tools that appear in the left menu. But you can

understanding. PLU students volunteering at the Emergency Food Network in Tacoma.× It is one thing to offer general education courses. It is quite another to integrate the range of disciplines and design an educational experience that makes clear to students what their business management course has to do with their anthropology course, and what their anthropology and business courses have to do with the weekend they spent volunteering at a food bank, and what all three experiences have to do with the