{"id":130,"date":"2025-09-17T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/dle-new\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:43:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/dle\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Universities of Wisconsin DLE?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our DLE is&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;a learning management system (LMS).&nbsp; Rather, our DLE is a federated, online environment that includes services and tools purposefully brought together to support the needs of teaching and learning in all modes (i.e., fully face-to-face, blended\/hybrid\/hyflex, and fully online).&nbsp; Our DLE challenges the traditional role of an LMS as \u201cthe\u201d platform for managing course documents, quizzes, videos, and the like.&nbsp; By shifting our perspective from an LMS-based content platform to a \u201cdigital environment\u201d that creates information we can act upon, the UW System can then realize the many benefits of an interoperable suite of services and tools that allow us to maximize student access and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the work of Brown, Dehoney, and Millichap, in their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/library.educause.edu\/~\/media\/files\/library\/2015\/4\/eli3035-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015 EDUCAUSE whitepaper on the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE)<\/a>,<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;the five key characteristics of the UW System DLE (UWS DLE) are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Accessibility<\/strong>&nbsp;and the principles of universal design are fundamental, so that all students, regardless of ability and learning preference, can succeed in all instructional modes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provides a platform to support learning and administrative&nbsp;<strong>analytics<\/strong>, readiness and learning assessment, progress mapping, advising, and \u201cearly alerts\u201d to trigger interventions to ensure student success.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collaboration<\/strong>&nbsp;is expected, encouraged, and supported among those within and outside the institution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Components are&nbsp;<strong>interoperable<\/strong>; meaning they are standards-based and work together seamlessly, not stapled together to sit side-by-side.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The environment is student-centered, and allows for a&nbsp;<strong>personalized<\/strong>&nbsp;experience for the student with regard to both content and pathways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These five characteristics emerged as drivers to the design of the UWS DLE.&nbsp; The results of the needs analysis and requirements gathering projects conducted in 2015-2016 by UW System aligned well with the concept of a NGLDE.&nbsp; UW System research work uncovered that students sought a standardized way to access the tools and services they need for completing their coursework, as well as being able to move from course to course easily \u2013 regardless of which institution offered the course.&nbsp; Instructors reported that tools were becoming too complicated and cumbersome, and that they require easier ways to interact with students online, and provide feedback in various forms.&nbsp; Administrators were frustrated by the lack of usable data to help inform their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UW System DLE (UWS DLE) is designed upon a fixed\/flexible framework that provides fixed, consistent processes, student experience, and data management.&nbsp; The UWS DLE allows flexibility to enable pedagogy (rather than technology) to drive the adoption of technology to support institutional needs for teaching and learning.&nbsp; The fixed\/flexible framework applies to all tools and services within the UWS DLE, and provides a means for reducing technology and access barriers among institutions&nbsp;and supports the ability to enrich and further develop cross-institution concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DLE fosters the following improvements for our three stakeholder groups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Instructors \u2013 increased collaboration and sharing of expertise and resources among instructors, thereby reducing redundancy and spurring innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students \u2013 a \u201cone-stop\u201d resource environment alleviates the disparate nature of accessing teaching and learning tools and services, thereby increasing retention rates and improving student learning outcomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Administration \u2013 reduces and standardizes infrastructure, improves support, and provides cross-institution opportunities for common practices, thereby freeing up resources for innovations in teaching and learning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The UWS DLE enables us to provide our stakeholders \u2013 students, instructors, and administration \u2013 the environment needed to thrive in any future that may evolve. We, not providers of \u201csiloed\u201d products and services or exclusive groups, are the \u201carchitects\u201d proactively designing and building the UWS DLE and planning its future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Universities of Wisconsin DLE? 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