One of the goals of the eLearning Team is to raise awareness of the many eLearning activities happening across the campus. If you or your department is involved in any eLearning related activities, let us know! We would love to publicize what you are doing here so that the rest of the campus can see the great work you are doing. Email us at elearning@utdallas.edu.
The eLearning Team has also been very active representing UTD at several national and regional professional conferences. Our presentations are available on the Professional Presentations tab.
Darren Crone, School of Management
Darren Crone is the eLearning Manager at The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. He has worked in distance education since 1999 and is currently a doctoral candidate at Nova Southeastern University. His job duties include overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of over 60 graduate level online courses at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. He has presented his work at numerous prestigious professional conferences.
Mary Dziorny, Information Resources
Mary Dziorny is the Instructional Technology Coordinator at The University of Texas at Dallas. She has been working with technology in various aspects for over 20 years, and she has been an educator since 1996. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of North Texas. Her job duties include primary customer support for faculty, staff and students for WebCT and eLearning related technologies and faculty training and instructional support. Her primary areas of research include educational, or serious, gaming and alternative methods of instruction and assessments for dyslexics in higher education. In addition to her numerous presentations on behalf of UTD, she has also presented her research at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). Her professional portfolio contains more information about her work and presentations.
This page contains presentations given by UTD faculty and staff at professional conferences and seminars. If you or your group has represented UTD in the field of eLearning, please let us add you to this list. Email us at elearning@utdallas.edu.
Presentations given by members of the UTD eLearning Team
Innovations in Online Learning
2007
Growing Pains-Implementing WebCT CE6 Cluster
This session will cover the experiences of UTDallas and the painful transition from a standalone server to a two node cluster to a multi-node cluster during the first long semester of open enrollment of WebCT6. Mistakes made and lessons learned will be discussed in detail.
Clustering presentation
presenter: Aaron Simpson
WebCT Boot Camp: Designing and Implementing Faculty Training
This session will present the process the UTD eLearning Team used to determine which topics should be covered in the Boot Camp, how we located and recruited available resources and experts on our campus, and scheduling, promotion, and implementation of the Boot Camp including participant materials.
WebCT Boot Camp presentation
presenter: Mary Dziorny
2006
Upgrading to WebCT CE6: You CAN Survive!
The University of Texas at Dallas is in the process of upgrading our campus of roughly 18,000 users from WebCT CE 4.1 to WebCT CE 6. In this session, we will discuss our upgrade, from the planning stages to full campus migration, including course content migration and training strategies.
Migration and pilot program presentation
presenters: Mary Dziorny and Aaron Simpson
Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)
2008
WebCT Boot Camp: Designing and Implementing Faculty Training
This session will present the process the UTD eLearning Team used to determine which topics should be covered in the Boot Camp, how we located and recruited available resources and experts on our campus, and scheduling, promotion, and implementation of the Boot Camp including participant materials.
WebCT Boot Camp presentation
presenter: Mary Dziorny
2007
Accommodating Learning Disabilities in Online Learning (Educator Showcase)
Are you concerned about accommodating your learning disabled students in your online classes? Join us for some simple tips and tricks to make your classes more user friendly for your learning disabled students...and the rest of your students, too! We will also discuss ways to accommodate LD students in WebCT.
Acommodating LD Online slides
presenter: Mary Dziorny
2006
Accommodating Learning Difficulties in Online Learning (Roundtable Discussion)
This session will discuss some difficulties experienced by LD students in online learning. Participants will be encouraged to discuss how to best accommodate these difficulties, share any experiences good and bad, and brainstorm some possible strategies for working with documented accommodations in an online environment.
Accommodating LD Online Presentation
presenter: Mary Dziorny
Texas Blackboard Users Group (T-BUG)
Growing Pains - Implementing WebCT CE6 Cluster
This session will cover the experiences of UTDallas and the painful transition from a standalone server to a two node cluster to a multi-node cluster during the first long semester of open enrollment of WebCT6. Mistakes made and lessons learned will be discussed in detail.
presenter: Mary Dziorny
Blackboard to WebCT: Transitioning the Faculty
The University of Texas at Dallas decided to discontinue its Blackboard system and migrate the small number of faculty using it into WebCT. This presentation discusses the processes we used to accomplish this and the lessons we learned along the way.
presenters: Mary Dziorny and Su Wadlow
WebCT Boot Camp: Designing and Implementing Faculty Training
This session will present the process the UTD eLearning Team used to determine which topics should be covered in the Boot Camp, how we located and recruited available resources and experts on our campus, and scheduling, promotion, and implemention of the Boot Camp including participant materials.
presenter: Mary Dziorny
Building a Trail to "Automated" Feeds
Managing a CMS without student systems integration can present quite a challenge for a non-GUI-oriented systems admin! Here's what one such person created to facilitate uploading user and enrollment data.
presenter: Su Wadlow
How Safe is Your Online Learning Environment?
How safe is your online learning environment? What do YOU DO to ensure a safe haven for your online learners?
presenter: Melissa Stokely
WebCT Texas
2006
Triple Migration at the University of Texas at Dallas
The University of Texas at Dallas is simultaneousy moving from WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 to WebCT Campus Edition 6, from SCT Mercury Message Broker(MMB) to LDI for e-Learning, and from Campus Pipeline to Luminus III.3 for the campus portal, which will have single sign-on to WebCT CE 6. In this session, we'll show some of the challenges this presented to the WebCT administration team and how we worked through them.
Triple Migration presentation
presenter: Aaron Simpson
WebCT vs. Blackboard: Which Do Staff Prefer for Online Training?
The University of Texas at Dallas is developing online staff training courses and is faced with the dilemma of choosing an LMS to deliver the courses. UTD has both WebCT Campus Edition and Blackboard Basic already installed on campus. To help us decide which platform to use, we conducted a comparison study between the two platforms to gather staff and faculty opinions and preferences. Come hear what we learned!
WebCT vs. Blackboard Presentation
presenters: Su Wadlow and Mary Dzirony
Upgrading to WebCT CE 6: You CAN Survive
The University of Texas at Dallas has just finished campus migration from WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 to WebCT Campus Edition 6. As part of the migration process, we ran a pilot program on WebCT CE 6 this Spring. In this session, we will discuss how we planned and implemented the pilot program including how we decided upon the number of participants and how we chose them, how we communicated with them throughout the test, and their experiences during the test. We will also discuss difficulties the pilot program revealed and the solutions we were able to find and implement before the rest of the campus was migrated.
Migration and pilot program presentation
presenters: Mary Dziorny and Aaron Simpson
!mpact
2006
Migrating to WebCT CE 6: A Pilot Program Post Mortem
The University of Texas at Dallas has just finished campus migration from WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 to WebCT Campus Edition 6. As part of the migration process, we ran a pilot program on WebCT CE 6 this Spring. In this session, we will discuss how we planned and implemented the pilot program including how we decided upon the number of participants and how we chose them, how we communicated with them throughout the test, and their experiences during the test. We will also discuss difficulties the pilot program revealed and the solutions we were able to find and implement before the rest of the campus was migrated.
Pilot Program Post Mortem presentation
presenter: Mary Dziorny
Triple Migration
The University of Texas at Dallas is in the midst of a triple migration of campus wide systems. We are migrating from WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 to WebCT Campus Edition 6 and from SCT Plus to Banner and SCT Mercury Message Broker(MMB) to LDI for e-Learning, with the WebCT and SCT MMB/LDI migrations happening simultaneously. Come hear about our successes...and learn from our mistakes.
Triple Migration presentation
presenter: Aaron Simpson
Campus Technology Summer Conference
2006
WebCT Campus Edition 6 Pilot Program: A Post Mortem (poster session)
Picture of poster
Pilot Program Post Mortem presentation
presenter: Mary Dziorny
