Elise Stevens
Want to hang out at all the popular spots on the University Park campus? Check out this slideshow to get a feel for what it’s like. Places include the Corner of College and Allen, the Hintz Family Alumni Center, Old Main, and the Hub. Next week we will be touring another part of campus so…
Ever wish you could tour the University Park campus? Well, now you can! Join us today as we take a look at some of the spots central campus has to offer. Places include the Pattee-Paterno Library, Palmer Museum of Art, and the Fountain by the Forum. You can also check out popular spots on campus.
Ashley Pipe, production specialist with the quality assurance team for Penn State World Campus Learning Design, keeps an important item on her desk to remind her of family. When Ashley was three and her sister was two months old, her parents ventured across the continent in a van from Alaska to Pennsylvania. As a family of four, they made the trek in only…
Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) has launched the first enterprise architecture (EA) program in North America and the first online EA master’s program in the world. The EA program is in response to the rapidly increasing demand for professionals with a unique combination of skills and perspectives to align enterprise information…
Instructional designer Penny Ralston-Berg keeps an old, dented cloth tape measure on her desk. It belonged to her great-great-grandfather, Charles Thomas Courson. Over the years, her grandpa Charley worked in construction, did yard work and maintenance for the doctors in town, donned a suit to work at the local bank, and even dug ditches for…
A Correspondence Course workbook. Penn State is not new to education at a distance. In fact, the first distance education course or correspondence course, as it was called, began in 1892. Penn State was the first institution of higher education to offer such a program. Under the direction of Professor Henry Waters, this course in…
Multimedia specialist, Nikki Kauffman, has some very special people at her desk. Photos of her children including her son, Jude, who has an auditory processing problem, fill her work space. Learning about his challenges has enabled her to apply new techniques to online learning such as designing course videos, interactive components, and other features that…
Academic adviser Tim Balliett holds a special item that is new to his desk. This holiday season he received a model sailboat from a friend to thank him for teaching and reminding her how to adjust her own sails as she navigates the storms and waters of her own life’s journey. [contact-form 8 “On My Desk…
With final exams coming up, it is important to brush up on your test taking skills. There are many strategies to perform better on exams. Here are some tips to help your semester wrap up well. Test Preparation When it comes to test taking, preparation is a key element. It is important to be as…
Matt’s “Peanut Counter.” Academic adviser Matt Rupert has many amazing things in his office. The one that gets the most attention is a piece of art that he calls the “Peanut Counter.” As soon as he saw it, he understood the joke since he has an economics and political background. He had such a good laugh…