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Technology @ DWU

Dakota Wesleyan University has made a strong commitment to providing contemporary technologies in support of teaching and learning.  Following are summaries of technologies available on campus.

TigerNet
TigerNet, based upon the Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS), is the campus course management system and portal to a wide range of other information.  More than 70% of all DWU faculty employ TigerNet to help facilitate student learning in at least one of their courses.  TigerNet also provides students, faculty, and staff with convenient login access to their personal, academic, and business information in Dakota Wesleyan's administrative computing systems.

MyWeb
MyWeb is the personal web space provided to DWU students, faculty, and staff for display to the general public as well as the campus community.  Both students and faculty use MyWeb for their personal web sites, posting of course materials and/or assignments, and other means of self-expression within the constraints of the campus Policy on Acceptable Use of Information Resources.

Electronic Portfolios
The campus has licensed iWebfolio as its electronic portfolio software application.  Some academic departments (such as Education) already require students to develop electronic portfolios.   We anticipate that such a requirement will become university-wide at some point in the not too distant future.

Online Surveys/Evaluations
As a benefit of Dakota Wesleyan's membership in the TLT Group, we have access to Flashlight Online, a versatile tool for online surveys and course evaluations.  Flashlight Online may be used by students for such purposes as surveys in conjunction with course projects, and by faculty and administrators for a variety of research projects such as alumni surveys, campus opinion surveys, and collection of information from the Mitchell community and prospective students.

Wireless Network
The eConnections@DWU wireless program was initiated in 2000 and now extends to nearly all classrooms, residence hall lounges, the university apartments, and the Rollins Campus Center.  eConnections has made possible wireless network access in many campus locations without physical network access to many potential users.

Computer Labs
DWU Information Systems maintains six computer labs for use by students, faculty, and staff.  The labs in Smith 102 and Education 108 are often used by classes but are available for open computing at other times (and sometimes during classes, with the instructor's permission).  Two labs in McGovern Library - in the Reference area and Tutor Lab - are available all hours that the Library is open.  The Multimedia Lab, located in the Art Building, is a specialized, all-Macintosh multimedia production lab that is available to students in selected majors after hours, with faculty approval.  The lab located in the student lounge in Rollins Campus Center is open 24 hours a day during academic terms.

Residence Hall Network Access
All DWU residence hall rooms (except for the apartments) are wired with two network connections, allowing students who bring their own computers to campus access to the campus network and Internet.  In addition, as noted above, wireless network access is available in residence hall lounges and throughout the university apartments.

Technology Classrooms
More than half of all DWU classrooms are permanently-equipped as technology classrooms, with ceiling-mounted multimedia projectors, instructor stations with computers and network access, and full video playback capability.  All other classrooms are served by portable technologies.  A plan is in place to equip virtually all campus classrooms with permanent multimedia technology by the 2007-08 academic year.  According to a 2004 faculty survey, about half of all DWU faculty use technology in the classroom on a daily basis, and more than three-fourths use classroom technology at least weekly.

The DWU Instructional Technology web site is funded through a Title III
grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
 
         
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