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Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications

DELTA History

Oct 8, 2024

NC State Reaches Largest Deployment of Mediasite

In 2011, NC State had the largest Mediasite deployment in the United States.

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA Student Interns Made a Splash with Downtown Banners

Three DELTA student interns and College of Design students, Jordan Deva, Joe Lawson and Justin Phillips, made a huge public splash on the skyline of Raleigh with their gigantic set of banners that now adorn the L-Building in Raleigh. The L-Building was planned to house a collection of retail and office space with an upper…

Oct 8, 2024

Innovative, Scalable Tools Developed for Online Course

Distance education has come a long way since Dr. Jon Paul Rust, the head of the Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science (TECS) department, started teaching Introduction to Fiber Sciences (TMS 211) via post more than 20 years ago. Back then, lectures were delivered on VHS tapes in the mail and laboratory exercises were completed wherever…

Oct 8, 2024

DE Enrollment Continues to Rise

By the fall of 2010, more than three-fourths of distance education students resided on campus. Out of 7,762 DE students, there was an overlap of 5,062 on-campus students.

Oct 8, 2024

Tony Pearson Wins MCNC Community Choice Award

DELTA’s Tony Pearson was selected as the Community Choice Award Recipient at NCREN Community Day. Read more

Oct 8, 2024

Wolfmatch Game Created to Increase Brand Awareness

The NC State WolfMatch iPhone Game was a mobile development research and student recruitment initiative to generate brand awareness. Game play is based on a classic match-3 puzzle game that features icons and graphics representing a variety of programs and disciplines found at NC State. The player is presented with fun-facts about the university as each level is completed. The…

Oct 8, 2024

reVAMP Launched to Assist Faculty Migration to Moodle

In Summer 2010, reVAMP was launched to begin assisting faculty in the migration from Vista to Moodle. Vista was turned off in June 2011.

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA Ceases to Use DVDs for Distance Education

Technology changed from 2003 when students received videotapes for distance education classes. Then, videotapes were replaced with DVDs in 2005. Fast forward to 2010 and distance education now means online education as most classes migrated to the internet. No More DVDs: Distributing Podcasted Lectures in the Virtual World

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA Develops First Course Heavily Using Social Media to Help Create Community in the Classroom

DELTA staff worked with Cris Crissman to create a Distance Education (DE) version of ECI 521: Teaching Literature for Young Adults. This is a graduate-level course directed to middle-school teachers and MAT graduate students. In this course students explore the realities of teen life, literature, literacy and learning in the 21st century. They do this…

Oct 8, 2024

DELTA Video Communication Services Relocates

DELTA’s Video Communication Services unit relocated and consolidated its base of operations into the top floor of the newly renovated Ricks Hall Annex.