immersive learning

Apr 30, 2021

They’ve Got Chemistry: A Popular App Impacts Student Learning Across Lab Sections

A difficult topic in an organic chemistry lab gets a high-tech, pandemic-proof makeover through an exploratory DELTA grant.

DELTA develops and innovates immersive technology for students at NC State.

Apr 28, 2021

Developing Immersive Learning Technologies with DELTA Grants

DELTA staff and faculty at NC State have developed and innovated various immersive technologies for online learning. With the help DELTA Grants, immersive technologies have made courses at NC State more engaging and effective.

Feb 2, 2021

Teaching the Pack: Maria Gallardo-Williams

Maria Gallardo-Williams of the Department of Chemistry is innovating with technology to bring the lab experience to students, wherever they are.

Dec 11, 2020

DELTA Collaborates with NC State CVM to Create Laboratory Experience Unlike Any Other

Part basic training, part choose your own adventure, the series of virtual-reality videos will offer students interactive lessons on biotechnology laboratory techniques.

Several screen grabs of the virtual meeting with read transparent overlay. Actors sit around a conference table to simulate the meeting. Text: Inside an IEP: A Team-Based Approach to Effective IEP Meetings.

Oct 21, 2020

Inside an IEP: Immersive Meetings to Prepare Future Teachers

Assistant Professor Jamie Pearson and a team at DELTA are leveraging virtual reality and PlayPosit to create virtual meetings that will better prepare future teachers to support students with disabilities and positively impact the educational experience.

Sep 8, 2020

Batting 1000: Feed Milling Awarded Third DELTA Grant

It’s grants, not baseball, but the NC State Feed Mill Education Unit’s power hitters, Associate Professor Adam Fahrenholz and Area Specialized Agent Marissa Herchler, are batting a thousand. Since 2018, Fahrenholz and Herchler have applied to the DELTA Grants program three times. Every time, their application was accepted. In a year filled with challenges, the new grant was some of the best news they’d had in a while.

Screenshot of a photoscan from Umstead State Park

Sep 1, 2020

DELTA Explores On-Location Photoscanning

As part of our new DELTA Explores series, we’re sharing how we research, test and explore the latest in immersive technology and its role in teaching and learning — how we Think before we Do. Immersive Media Developer Stephen Waddell shares a few 3D models captured through photoscanning at William B. Umstead State Park.

Close up of a microphone with the cover off. Mic is gold and shows the array.

Aug 21, 2020

DELTA Explores Working with Spatial Audio for Distance Education

As part of our new DELTA Explores series, we’re sharing how we research, test and explore the latest in immersive technology and its role in teaching and learning — how we Think before we Do.

Ethiopian woman in a bright patterned dress feeds a cow long grass.

Jun 29, 2020

Tackling Global Health with Virtual Reality

A DELTA Grant project developed in collaboration with Assistant Professor Andy Stringer and the College of Veterinary Medicine will allow veterinary students to explore global health challenges, diverse farming practices and cultural contexts in virtual reality.

Apr 29, 2020

Lending Expertise: NC State Organic Chemistry Virtual Reality Labs Shared Globally

Hear from Maria Gallardo-Williams as she talks about sharing her organic chemistry virtual reality labs to help other instructors continue teaching during the COVID-19 outbreak.