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2010

Aug 6, 2010

Congratulations to DELTA’s Pride of the Wolfpack Winners

DELTA honored four new recipients of the Pride of the Wolfpack Award at the DELTA staff meeting on Thursday, August 5. The award is given to NC State employees to recognize their unique contribution to their unit, college, or the university. Emily Brooks, a new DELTA employee in Distance Education, also received a Pride of the… 

Jul 19, 2010

3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Online Learning

This week, Sloan-C is hosting its third annual symposium on Emerging Technologies for Online Learning. The conference focuses on the effectiveness of emerging technologies for online learning, emphasizing research, application, and best practices in the use of these technologies. The schedule is jam-packed and covers a broad spectrum of topics with something for everyone. This… 

Jul 13, 2010

Join us for the Elluminate-sponsored webinar “Blended Sessions,” Friday, August 6, 10-11 AM

If you want to use Elluminate to host events with a face-to-face audience and remote partipicants, this session is for you! Corey Spivey, our Elluminate Customer Success Manager for NC State, will be leading a webinar on "Blended Sessions" on Friday, August 6 from 10 - 11 am. 

Jun 14, 2010

Instructors Create Coursepages in Just Days at Twelfth Summer Institute

Each summer, DELTA sees an increase in the number of faculty members charged with the task of putting some or all of their course content online. This sometimes daunting request leaves faculty members with a choice: Meander all summer through scattered resources on online teaching tools and methods, or attend DELTA’s one-week Summer Institute on… 

May 21, 2010

Register Online for Summer 2010 Workshops and Seminars

Gain practical Web skills, learn approaches for Learning Management System (LMS) migration and add to your repertoire of effective teaching with technology strategies. 

May 18, 2010

Join us for the Summer Institute Open Elective Day

This Friday (May 21st) is the final day of our annual Summer Institute on Teaching & Learning with Technology. And as is tradition (well, a NEW tradition), we are opening up access to the Summer Institute workshops & seminars to all NCSU instructors & support staff. Throughout the day, we are offering 12 different sessions… 

May 14, 2010

DELTA Launches College Course Templates for Instructors!

NC State course tools have a new look! College Course Templates provide a growing set of free and easy-to-use designs for NC State courses. Each design package provides a consistent visual solution for the tools used most in NC State courses. It gives instructors a great starting point, allowing them to focus on the content of their course… 

May 12, 2010

Upcoming and Available DELTA RFPs in support of Distance Education and On-Campus Courses

DELTA currently has three different Grant programs that support NC State Distance Education programs, individual course development and traditional, large enrollment courses. Read more to see if pursuing a grant through these programs is right for you! 

Apr 29, 2010

No More DVDs: Distributing Podcasted Lectures in the Virtual World

Media Distribution Moves to the Virtual World When students signed up for a video-based Distance Education (DE) course in 2003, they had to pay a $50 deposit for a box of 25 VHS tapes containing all of their class lectures for the semester.  In 2010, when students sign up for a video-based DE course, all… 

Apr 28, 2010

NC State Receives Three Awards at 2010 Rich Media Impact Awards Ceremony

At Sonic Foundry’s 2010 Rich Media Impact Awards ceremony on April 15 in Madison, Wisconsin, North Carolina State University was named a finalist in two categories and won the Prolific Use Award. Sonic Foundry’s sixth Rich Media Impact Awards, an annual recognition of excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite in business, education,…