teaching with technology

Jul 11, 2014

Service that Scales: Recording Distance Education Courses–From a Distance

When faced with a 20 percent increase in demand for their Distance Education (DE) classroom recording services, Tony Pearson and his team in DELTA’s Video Communications Services (VCS) refused to choose between strong customer service and scalability. Instead, they found a way for their team to serve more instructors and students with the same commitment… 

Jul 3, 2014

Making Education Matter: Transforming Educational Videos to Engage Students

Sarah Egan Warren, assistant director of the English department’s Professional Writing Program, struggled to convince her students that what they learned in her class mattered. These future engineers could easily see how they would benefit from strong math skills or a foundation in engineering principles, but they didn’t always recognize the value of taking an… 

Jun 13, 2014

Supporting Our Faculty: One Instructor’s Experiences with Instructional Support Services

NC State faculty are world-renowned experts in many areas, but they are not always familiar with using learning technologies. That’s why they turn to DELTA’s Instructional Support Services (ISS) team for help. This team of instructional technologists helps build instructors’ skills and confidence as they incorporate technology into their teaching. ISS assists hundreds of instructors each… 

May 1, 2014

What Have We Learned?: A Recap of “MOOCs and OOCs at NC State” Seminar

With staggeringly large enrollment numbers and millions of dollars invested thus far, the MOOCs (massive open online courses) movement in higher education has become impossible to ignore. The question for many institutions now is not “will we be involved?” but “how should we be involved?” That question led nearly 100 individuals from across NC State’s campus… 

Apr 21, 2014

DELTA Now Accepting Proposals for 2014 DELTA Grants!(Archive)

Have an innovative idea for course development or redesign? DELTA is now accepting proposals for this year’s DELTA Grants, a competitive awards program that provides funding and DELTA personnel support to NC State faculty and staff for the planning, design and development of distance education, blended learning, and traditional courses and projects Formerly the more narrowly-focused… 

Apr 4, 2014

Have You Seen Your Video Stats?

Are you flipping your class? Teaching online? Putting additional resources online? As we use video more and more to supplement and drive our courses, tools that allow us to see what our students are watching–and if they’re watching–can help us in making our classes more effective and improving learning outcomes. With the powerful tools built… 

Mar 24, 2014

DELTA Annual Report Now Available Online!

Want to learn more about what’s happening at DELTA? The DELTA Annual Report 2012-2013 is now available online! DELTA staff collaborated this year to create a full online report, developed as a responsive micro-site in HTML5 using the Bootstrap framework. Inside the Report DELTA’s wide range of services impacts a growing number of NC State faculty members, staff… 

Mar 18, 2014

Upcoming Seminar! “MOOCs and OOCs at NC State: Current Work and Lessons Learned”

DELTA is pleased to invite all NC State faculty and staff to its upcoming seminar, “MOOCs and OOCs at NC State: Current Work and Lessons Learned,” where we’ll explore the future of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open online courses (OOCs) at NC State University. The seminar will take place on April 17, from 2:45 – 5:00 p.m.,… 

Jan 24, 2014

DELTA Featured in HigherEd TechDecisions

DELTA was featured in a recent article on HigherEd TechDecisions, which highlighted NC State’s unique blended learning environment as a successful example for other institutions. Dr. Tom Miller, vice provost for DELTA, explained the university’s holistic conception of distance learning not as “a separate program or category” but as “a method of delivering education.” This effective… 

Jan 21, 2014

Registration for My Mediasite Pilot Now Open!(Archive)

My Mediasite adds two exciting new features to our suite of media production and online instruction applications: desktop recording and personal media management. Using a new suite of tools built on our existing Mediasite system, My Mediasite lets you: record presentations or screencasts from a personal computer, capturing video, audio and/or computer images upload previously…