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Spring Quarter 2016 Begins Tomorrow!

Posted by Christine Scherer

Welcome back to faculty, students, and staff as Spring Quarter 2016 starts tomorrow, March 29! We’re offering over one hundred sections of our online courses, including several new classes in Information Design & Strategy and Medical & Health Informatics.
Some important dates as we kick off Spring Quarter:

April 1 – Spring Tuition due
April 4 – Last day to add or change a course section
April 11 – Summer Registration begins
May 6 – Last day to drop Spring Quarter class
May 16 – Fall Registration begins

If you encounter any issues with your Spring online courses, please contact the DL team at distanceeducation@northwestern.edu.…

Winter Quarter 2016 Begins Today!

Posted by Christine Scherer

Happy New Year and welcome back to all our faculty, students, and staff. Winter Quarter 2016 starts today, with over a hundred sections of online courses being offered across multiple SPS programs. Included among these programs are several courses in our revised Medical & Health Informatics (MHI) program, including MHI 414, Emerging Federal Regulation & Policy.…

Welcome to Elizabeth Lemke & Krissy Wilson, Learning Designers!

Posted by Christine Scherer

The SPS Distance Learning team is very excited to welcome two more new team members: Elizabeth Lemke and Krissy Wilson. They will both be working as Learning Designers, helping faculty outline, design, and build online courses.
Elizabeth comes to our team from Wiley Publishers, where she worked with Instructional Designers to build online course materials for a variety of clients.…

Welcome to Dr. Reba-Anna Lee, Director of Online Program Development

Posted by Christine Scherer

The SPS Distance Learning team is very excited to welcome Dr. Reba-Anna Lee to the team as our new Director of Online Program Development! In this role, Reba-Anna will oversee our team of Learning Designers, lead our faculty training program, create systems to evaluate course quality, and guide online program development.…

New Faculty Training Begins Monday, November 16

Posted by Jackie Wickham Smith

Each quarter, the School of Professional Studies hosts a four-week, asynchronous training for faculty and teaching assistants who will be facilitating SPS online courses for the first time. Run through Canvas, the training follows the basic format of an SPS online course, which allows faculty and teaching assistants to experience a course from a student perspective while learning about technology, SPS policy and procedures, and best practices for facilitating an online course.…

Fall Quarter 2015 and IDS Launch!

Posted by Christine Scherer

Fall Quarter 2015 started last week, with over a hundred sections of online courses running. Among those courses are the first offerings in our newest graduate program, the Masters of Science in Information Design & Strategy. Students are enrolled in IDS 401 – Models and Theories of User-Centered Design and IDS 403 – Effective Communication.…

news@SPS DL: Graphic Design USA Names IDS as a Program to Watch in 2015

Posted by Christine Scherer

The IDS faculty and SPS DL team are hard at work on designing and building the first courses for the new Information Design and Strategy, but the new program is already attracting attention. GD USA, a lead news magazine for graphic designers & other creative professionals, highlighted the IDS program in their March 2015 feature on Top US Design Schools.…

news@SPS DL: MS in Information Design Coming Fall 2015

Posted by Christine Scherer

Northwestern University School of Professional Studies has announced a new master’s program in Information Design and Strategy (IDS). The MS in IDS is an interdisciplinary program that incorporates of graphic design, business leadership, data analytics, and more. It’s also a field that many of our staff have a professional interest in, as we determine some of the best ways to share educational information through the courses that we help to create.…