Meet Iowa State's distance learning student and faculty bloggers

Professor Steffen Schmidt from political science
Matt, a teacher in eastern Iowa working on a master's in education technology
Brian from Orlando, Florida working on a master's in community development

Faculty liaisons at Parks Library
Subject librarians are available to help faculty with reserve items for distance learning. To find your subject librarian, visit www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/colloff/liaison.html.

Join the faculty teaching by distance education
Iowa State University remains true to the land-grant tradition of extending knowledge far beyond campus borders.

Benefits
Stimulate classes and programs with diverse learners
The learners in off-campus courses and conferences range from advanced high school students to adults. They bring commitment, enthusiasm, experience, and perspective.
Extend your expertise beyond the Ames campus
Combine your teaching expertise with distance education technology.
Gather new research ideas
Tap adult learners' knowledge of current problems and opportunities in their occupational fields.

Continuing education staff ready to help you convert your courses to distance delivery with Microstudio
Microstudio is a technology you can use to convert your course to distance education….easily. Microstudio is a wireless, highly portable system designed to produce high quality distance education and corporate training in a way that requires very little training, is flexible and can incorporate existing material and teaching style. It is appropriate for content that is highly visual and not discussion oriented. Record your course while teaching an on-campus section.

Engineering Distance Education first used this system on the Iowa State campus. Continuing Education and Communication Services has purchased equipment to record courses.

To see a demonstration of the equipment and schedule using it, contact Kris Phelps, (515) 294-7329 or kphelps@iastate.edu.

For professional and scientific, merit staff
Tuition grant applications for ISU employees
The university provides funds through its tuition reimbursement program. Tuition grant applications for eligible merit and professional and scientific (P&S) employees are due May 1 for summer, August 1 for fall, and December 15 for spring.

Information is on the Department of Human Resource Services site, www.hrs.iastate.edu/main/TuitionDevGrants.shtml

ISU Distance Education News is a blog about technology, marketing, pedagogy, and administration in distance education at Iowa State.
Recent postings cover distance education in the College of Agriculture, the Iowa Distance Learning Association conference, using technology for teaching.
Join in at www.extension.iastate.edu/mt/kphelps/.