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DELTA History

Oct 9, 2024

Blackboard Collaborate Becomes Synchronous LMS

Blackboard Collaborate becomes NC State’s enterprise synchronous learning management system (LMS), replacing Elluminate Live! In May 2019, Zoom became the enterprise video conferencing tool and Blackboard Collaborate was retired.

Oct 9, 2024

Funding Model Changes for Distance Education

When full-time, on-campus students registered for fall 2012 Distance Education (DE) courses, for the first time in more than a decade they didn’t wince at the additional cost. For them, the price tag for taking their class in a lecture hall or taking it online was exactly the same. As a result, the percentage of…

Oct 9, 2024

DELTA Releases its First Learning-Centered Mobile App

Released on iTunes in May 2012, the mobile version of the formerly web-only MicroExplorer 3D is now available as a free app on iPhone and iPod touch. Part of the Mobile Learning Initiative at NC State University, this app uses touch-based navigation to allow users to examine the different parts of a 3D-rendered compound microscope. By…

Oct 9, 2024

Summer Institute Renamed Summer Shorts

The long-running teaching with technology classes held each summer for faculty called Summer Institute was changed in format and in name to Summer Shorts in 2012.

Oct 9, 2024

Mediasite Open to All NC State Instructors

In Spring 2012, DELTA opened classroom content capture enterprise service using Mediasite to all NC State instructors teaching in a Mediasite-equipped classroom.

Oct 9, 2024

Central Control Room in Ricks Hall Annex Goes into Production

The Ricks Hall Annex construction was completed in 2009, which included a Central Control Room (CCR) to remotely monitor and control all DELTA classrooms on campus. The CCR went into operation in pilot phase on January 09, 2012, with two consoles operational. Those two consoles when into full production mode August 16, 2012. Other consoles were…

Oct 9, 2024

DELTA Holds Second Open House

More than 100 guests attended the second DELTA Open House on December 6, 2011, to learn about the many ways DELTA is helping faculty contribute to student success at NC State. Held in the Park Shops building on main campus, the event gave visitors a chance to check out the facility that DELTA’s Video Communication…

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA doubles Proctoring Potential with Cox Hall Testing Facility

To keep up with a rising demand growth for exam proctoring, DELTA opened a new test proctoring facility near D.H. Hill library this year. The number of exams proctored by DE Testing Services is expected to rise from last year’s 23,000 to about 30,000 by the end of this year, a 30% jump. This facility,…

Oct 8, 2024

Dr. Tom Miller Becomes Senior Vice Provost

Dr. Tom Miller becomes Senior Vice Provost for DELTA, Continuing Education, Engagement and Outreach, and the Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI). As a result, some restructuring of DELTA was necessary to allow for Dr. Miller’s new dual roles. DELTA’s restructuring

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA’s First Fully Digital Classroom Created in Poe Hall

In a partnership with DELTA staff and NC State Facilities Division, a team transformed Poe 202, an aging DELTA classroom, into NC State’s first all-digital DELTA classroom. The vision for the Poe 202 Collaborative Classroom was to make an entirely flexible, unique teaching environment that encouraged peer-to-peer interaction, instructor facilitation and remote participation. Responsible for…