Author: Helen Velk

Feb 24, 2025

March IDIG Online Session

Join us for an energetic, collaborative workshop where you’ll discover and practice proven techniques for increasing student participation online. You’ll explore active learning tools firsthand and develop practical strategies you can immediately implement in your virtual classroom. 

Feb 24, 2025

DELTA Grants LAR 221 Project: An Invitation to Walk in the Park

Through collaboration with DELTA, two NC State instructors transformed their approach to teaching biophilic urban design. Their innovative project features a detailed virtual replica of the Kids Together Playground, allowing users to explore the park environment from both adult and toddler viewpoints. 

Jan 29, 2025

Register for NC State’s Conference on Faculty Excellence

Interested in collaborating with colleagues from all six members of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges on innovative approaches to teaching and learning? Join us for a day-long event to learn more about mentoring, career mapping, critical thinking and more! 

Jan 27, 2025

DELTA Grant Enhances Connectivity and Engagement in Agricultural Course

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs Wendy Warner teaches a course composed of students who are secondary school teachers. With full-time jobs and personal demands, she wanted to streamline her course content with the goal of increasing interactions and professional connections — to foster collaboration in the classroom and also beyond the classroom walls.… 

Oct 23, 2024

November IDIG Session: Accessibility in the Classroom

Instructional Designer Elizabeth Shamblin will share her expertise in designing courses with accessibility in mind as the host of this month’s collaborative meeting. Join us to learn how you can foster student success by using the accessibility resources provided by NC State. 

Sep 20, 2024

October IDIG Session: AI at Work

This session hosted by the Instructional Design Interest Group (IDIG) will be a crash course into the world of artificial intelligence — exploring its transformative potential in the workplace. You will learn about ways AI can enhance productivity, ethical issues and more! 

Sep 19, 2024

DELTA Express Grants Fall 2024 Recipients

DELTA has awarded a total of 13 Express Grants stretching across eight colleges. There were six Course Mapping, two Course Accessibility and five Instructional Tools Grants accepted for the fall. DELTA Express Grants differ from DELTA Grants in that they are shorter and more directed toward course improvement which will last a semester as opposed… 

Aug 29, 2024

September IDIG Session

Join the Instructional Design Interest Group for a discussion about AI’s impact on designing course content to counteract AI-driven cheating. The overarching goal is to enhance students’ AI literacy with a practical understanding of AI’s potential and limitations. 

Aug 21, 2024

How to Make Accessible Lists in Documents and Moodle

Bulleted and numbered lists are a great way to summarize and organize important information, but when they are not formatted in an accessible way, screen reader users will miss out on the fact that your content is, in fact, a list. Manually adding numbers or letters to text is not the same thing as formatting… 

Jul 26, 2024

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 DELTA Grants Recipients

For 2024-2025, 40 recipients will receive a total of $256,000 in 34 new and continuing DELTA Grants distributed among 38 recipients. In collaboration with our faculty and campus partners, DELTA staff members look forward to creating innovative solutions to instructional challenges and increasing student success.