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Board members demonstrate strong commitment to IUPUI through their advice, advocacy, and advancement.īy accepting an appointment to the Board of Advisors, members agree to the following expectations and commitments: IUPUI is proud to have a Board of Advisors whose members have achieved a record of distinguished community involvement and represent a range of expertise and experience with representatives from the education, health and life sciences, business and industry, and nonprofit sectors. Supporting IUPUI philanthropically, enhancing external funding support for IUPUI, and serving as active advocates and volunteers to assist IUPUI in its fundraising initiatives.

Advocating for IUPUI and helping to strengthen relationships between the campus and its many constituencies, including, but not limited to, other area educational institutions, healthcare providers, key community businesses and nonprofit organizations, and state and local government.Providing input on IUPUI’s role and activities in the economic development of the region, relating campus priorities to community needs, specifically to business, industry, healthcare providers, schools, and nonprofits.In addition, the IUPUI chancellor keeps the board up-to-date on educational, research, and community engagement activities or matters of priority relating to the growth and success of IUPUI and higher education in the region and state of Indiana. Fern is an Assistant Professor of Music at IUPUI and Interim Director of the Indiana Learning Collaborative, a consortium of formal and informal education partners whose primary goal is to enhance student achievement in the state of Indiana.īLOOMINGTON and INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - Jay Fern has been appointed manager of online learning technologies for Indiana University, an appointment within University Information Technology Services (UITS) Teaching and Learning Information Technologies (TLIT) division.The IUPUI Board of Advisors serves in an advisory capacity to the IUPUI chancellor. A member of the Oncourse Implementation Team during spring 1999, Fern served as a faculty liaison in this application development project to ensure faculty review and recommendations were included in the new release of Oncourse that became available to the University in July 1999 for fall semester classes ( ). Oncourse is an online course management environment, developed at IU, that allows faculty to post syllabi, grades and assignments so students can access their class information via the Internet.

Students can use Oncourse to view their class information, send course-related E-mail, post assignments online or hold chat room sessions with classmates.Īs manager for online learning technologies, Fern will provide leadership to the Oncourse Team and oversee the project. 'The creation and implementation of Oncourse has enabled us to develop the application aggressively in ways that are responsive to new learning technologies and unique to the learning needs of the University.' 'Our goal is to provide the very best online learning environment for Indiana University,' said Fern.

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ONCOURSE IUPUI FULLĮlmore, Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning Information Technologies and Dean, Information Technology, said, 'After the prototype was developed in the WebLab at IUPUI, moving Oncourse to a full production system demonstrated that teaching and learning systems require a major commitment by campuses, schools and departments to work together to define requirements and develop support. Professor Fern's commitment to involving these stakeholders in the evolving design of IU's environment for distributed learning will make a substantial contribution to the University's progress in this area.'įern received his DMA in Music Education at the University of Southern California with special emphasis in the application of technology to music instruction.