teaching with technology

Mar 27, 2023

DELTA-Con 2023 Set for May 9

Preparations are underway for the 7th annual DELTA-Con, NC State’s unconference experience, scheduled for Wednesday, May 9 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. This day-long experience allows faculty, staff and graduate students from area higher education institutions to share their knowledge, expertise, and best practices on a wide variety of topics. 

Mar 27, 2023

Changes for DELTA’s Media Production Services

DELTA’s Media Production Services has a new organizational structure with new team names! The new unit name — Enterprise Digital Media — and structure allows DELTA’s professional resources to better support the university and reflect the scope of new technologies. 

Mar 23, 2023

Tools to Think Through the Complexities of AI Text Generators in the Classroom

Interested in learning about how to incorporate new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into your classroom teaching strategies in a responsible manner? DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren shares appropriate tools to help instructors and administrators navigate the complexities of utilizing AI technologies in course content. 

Mar 21, 2023

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Kyle Bunds

Associate Professor Kyle Bunds will work with DELTA and NC State University Libraries to promote Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology use in the classroom. As a DELTA Faculty Fellow, he will facilitate the technology selection process for instructors and students. 

Mar 21, 2023

What’s New in Moodle?

Want to learn tips and tricks to use in Moodle? Features such as “jump-to-top” and “gradebook user report” are featured in this article by Instructional Technologist Kerri Brown Parker. There are no major updates this year, and you can now request Moodle courses for the 2023 summer and fall semesters. 

Feb 24, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: Using the Panopto Table of Contents to Reduce Cognitive Load

Help students focus on your content and achieve learning goals by reducing their cognitive load! For example, if you use lecture videos in your instruction, try creating them in Panopto or uploading them to Panopto. Then, use linked time stamps in the Table of Contents feature to help students focus on smaller chunks of information.… 

Feb 24, 2023

DELTA Instructional Consultation: What’s it Like?

If you need guidance on course design, teaching strategies or instructional tools, DELTA can help. These brainstorming sessions are designed to discover the optimal approach for your course content creation, organization and delivery. DELTA experts can help you at any point in the process! 

Feb 24, 2023

Accessibility Tip: Formatting Headings

Headings provide information about the organizational structure for screen readers and sighted users alike. Sighted users and screen readers both skim through a document looking for the relevant sections and properly formatted headings are what makes this possible. Making text bolder and larger is not the same thing as creating headers. Use the built-in headers,… 

Feb 24, 2023

LearnTech Implements Knowledge-Centered Service Approach to Enhance Self-Service Offerings

The Instructional Technology Support (IST) team revamped its process for creating and publishing knowledge articles to enhance self-service resources for faculty and staff. In addition, a new Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) channel exists in the DELTA Slack workspace to expand the reach beyond the LearnTech team across campus. 

Feb 20, 2023

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor and DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren looks for innovative methods that support her teaching initiatives and students. She’s excited to explore further what we can learn from data about our teaching, our students' learning and our processes.