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Lucas Sanders practices playing piano using the Piano+ interactive method book created through a DELTA Grant in partnership with Olga Kleiankina from the Department of Music. Photo by Erin Zanders. The student is playing piano and has a tablet in front of him with the Piano+ loaded on the screen.

Aug 19, 2019

Class Piano Goes Digital

Through a DELTA Grant, a team of staff members partnered with Associate Teaching Professor Olga Kleiankina from the Department of Music to transform MUS 107: Class Piano I by creating an interactive web book to replace the standard method book.
Members of the project team. From left to right: Dan Spencer, Jessica White, David Tredwell, Traci Lamar, Chris Willis. In front of TADA home screen projection.

Apr 29, 2019

Textile Archive Design Application: Bridging History and the Future of Textile Design

Exploratory Grants let you match your creativity with our resources to create groundbreaking new technologies. Learn how Professor Traci Lamar and a multidisciplinary team of DELTA staff members combined forces to bring a colorful collection of textile patterns back into NC State classrooms.

Mar 21, 2019

Teaching (and Learning) Through Technology

NC State’s DELTA Grants program empowers faculty to revolutionize classroom and online instruction. Learn how a team of DELTA staff worked with Deb Littlejohn to transform her graphic design theory course using immersive media. Submit a DELTA Grants proposal starting April 8 through May 17. Attend an info session or group consultation to help prepare your proposal.

Mar 11, 2019

DELTA Grants Available to Help Faculty Transform Learning

Are you a faculty member who has a great idea to engage your students, but lack assistance to get it done? Or are you seeking funding to develop or improve a course with the latest technologies or research-based best practices? Partner with us through DELTA Grants. Read more for important dates and processes for the 2019-2020 cycle.

Mar 1, 2019

Experience DELTA Grants through an Interactive Digital Poster Session

Are you interested in how DELTA Grants projects impact student success? Or how the partnership between DELTA and faculty members works? Join us for our DELTA Grants Showcase on March 25, 2019, from 2-4 p.m. in the Hunt Library Teaching and Visualization Lab.

A screenshot of the low-poly environment with realistic textures.

Jun 8, 2018

A Work in Progress: Immersive VR Environment for LAR 457

As part of an exploratory grant project for a landscape architecture course, Postdoctoral Research Scholar Muntazar Monsur and Teaching Assistant Professor Carla Delcambre are working with a team of dedicated DELTA staff members to create an immersive, 3D environment that students can explore using virtual reality headsets.
3D printed biomolecules.

Apr 25, 2018

A Work in Progress: Tactile Teaching Tools for Inclusivity in Science Education

DELTA team members began working with Teaching Assistant Professors Claire Gordy and Melissa Ramirez to build a website where educators at NC State and beyond can share 3-D printable designs to enhance student learning in biological science courses.
Photo of Arthur Earnest, Betty Black and Hal Heatwole at Merchants Millpond for BIO 181.

Oct 27, 2017

Exploring Immersive Experiences in Biodiversity

After wrapping up three video shoots at different locations across North Carolina, DELTA’s project team shared their experiences as well as the future vision of immersive experience and story-based learning in 360° environments.

Sep 3, 2015

DELTA Grants Recipients attend orientation

On Monday, August 31, all new DELTA Grants recipients were invited to an orientation meeting in EB II on Centennial Campus. After a greeting from Senior Vice Provost Tom Miller, the grant recipients paired off for an icebreaker activity. Each pair introduced their partner to the group and shared what his/her grant would be focused…