While you may not want development assistance, you can still consult with vuDAT to gain benefit from our creativity and experience. Our team enjoys bouncing ideas around and innovating. We are just waiting for interesting challenges from you!

We are willing to enter flexible consulting arrangements to assist your project teams or your grant projects. Or, even just brainstorm ideas with you. If you want to talk about anything that relates to online learning, please contact us today to see how vuDAT might help.

Here are some topics people frequently ask our help with...

Teaching Online

vuDAT can help if you face challenges in your online course or even if you are just beginning the transition to the online teaching environment.

Instructional Design

vuDAT has experience making content more modular, repackaging content, and creating online courseware for multiple audiences. You can make use of this experience to choose better strategies to get the most from your content development efforts. We can discuss instructional design strategies with you to ensure the needs of your diverse set of learners are met.

Emerging Technology

You probably hear of a new trend in instructional technology every month. vuDAT is often the first to learn a new system or software on campus. You can benefit from our ability to adapt quickly using new technologies. We can help you move beyond the hype and apply the right technologies to your instructional challenges. After we explore options with you and help you focus your idea, we can explore implementation strategies and projects.

Learning Games

If you are trying to incorporate interactivity, simulation or game elements into your course, vuDAT can help. Most learning games are difficult to create because of the scope of effort and cost involved with development. vuDAT's experience building interactive learning tools will allow you to emerge from the early design process with a clear idea of how to start and what resources you'll need.

Assessment & Evaluation

As many online instructors have, you may be challenged with how to assess the effectiveness of your course or how to evaluate student learning. You can benefit greatly from the ideas and proven strategies vuDAT has developed with the many online instructors that vuDAT has worked with over the last 10 years.

Multimedia and Graphic Design

Your ideas can be made into reality by our team of technology specialists. You may not be able to draw yourself, but by working with vuDAT you can take advantage of our focus on implementing online learning solutions. Take a look through our portfolio to see what we can bring to your project.

vuDAT's services are available free-of-charge to MSU blended and fully-online credit bearing courses and can be contracted for other projects both on and off-campus. To have our team add distinct graphic appeal and custom interactivity to your course, contact vuDAT today.

Software Development and Programming

If you don’t have the time or desire to program tools for your course, take the time to contact vuDAT to see if we can be of help. In many cases, we can perform these functions for you and leave you free to create and teach your course content.

Faculty Development Support

One of vuDAT’s missions is to help faculty learn about the technologies available to them for instruction. We coordinate with others on campus to bring you mini-lectures such as our Breakfast Series, as well as week-long intensive courses, such as our Hybrid 101 Workshop. We produce online documentation and training materials for campus-supported LMS. In addition, we are glad to visit your department or attend a staff meeting to talk about the world of technology and teaching at MSU.

To arrange a first contact meeting please call 517.432.0711.