DELTA fact sheet
Services
Providing resources and support for technology-mediated teaching and learning
- Instructional services help desk email and phone support
- Distance education information and services for faculty and students - help desk email, phone, or fax support
- Summer Institute for immersive faculty training opportunities, workshops, seminars, and individual sessions for teaching and learning with technologies needs
- Web sites provide comprehensive information, links, FAQ support, registration and orientation services, and other resources for teaching and learning in technology-enriched teaching and learning environments
- Marketing and partnership development creates awareness of DE learning opportunities and facilitates collaboration
- Assessment and diversity activities help extend NC State's land grant mission to underserved populations
- Access to online research materials & reports
Learning Management System (LMS) Support
Managing NC State’s learning management system online infrastructure for Vista, WolfWare and Elluminate courses, including:
- Server setup and configuration
- System level backups
- Account creation and access control
- Content, communications, and performance management
- Upgrades and retrofits
- Grade submission technologies
- Assessment tools
Distance Education (DE) Video Conferencing and Classroom Support
Supporting and maintaining distance education classrooms through:
- Facility planning for enrollment growth in DE
- Design consulting and system engineering
- Course productions, taped, live, or via webcast
- Video conference scheduling and facilitation
Media Distribution
Supporting students at a distance through distribution of course content via CD, DVD, and television broadcast.
Online and Technology-Enhanced Course Production
Supporting planning, design and development of online courses, programs and resources through:
- Project management
- Instructional Design and Multimedia Production
- Assessment
- Usability and accessibility
- Coordination of IDEA instructional research and development grants
Video Production
Supporting the university community through:
- Field production and shooting
- Non-linear editing
- Producer/director services
- Satellite down-linking
- Video streaming
Facts and figures
- Established July, 2000
- Locations: DH Hill Library, Partners I & Venture III
- 63 full-time permanent staff + temporary staff and student assistants
Areas of Expertise
- Distance Education & Distributed Learning Environments
- Distance Education Faculty and Student Services
- Distance Education Program Planning and Development
- Project Planning and Management
- Budget and Resource Management
- Marketing and Partnership Development
- Instructional Design
- Assessment
- Diversity
- Teaching with Technology
- Multimedia
- Information Technology
- Systems Management
- Web Development
- Database Management
- Video Production
Distance Education Facts – FY 2007
- 250+ faculty
- 950+ courses and sections
- 46 degrees, certificates, subject specializations
- 14 additional DE initiatives in development
- 8,475+ students served
- 16,000+ enrollments
- 20.5% average annual growth over five years
Faculty Support Services Facts – FY 2007
- Summer Institute 43 participants
- ITAP 9 projects completed
- 1,051 regular workshop enrollments
- 201 unique participants in regular workshops
- 225 unique participants in Custom Training
- 3,018 Remedy Calls resolved
- 251 Instructional House Calls conducted
- 25 course production projects
- 3,578 hours of video classroom production
- 255 hours of remote field video production
Learning Management System Usage – Spring 2007
- Vista/WebCT: 1,106 course sections with a total enrollment of 30,508
- WolfWare: 1,861 course sections with a total enrollment of 58,478
- Total NC State students using Vista and/or Wolfware: 25,184 (86% of total population)