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Aug 12, 2019

FM 480: An Inside Look at Feed Milling with Augmented Reality

This Exploratory grant uses interactive augmented reality (AR) to enhance the way traditional and distance education students learn about feed milling equipment and processes. With a free mobile app and their phone cameras, students can look inside the different machines in real-time or on-demand, eliminating instructional challenges like inaccessibility, noise and physical barriers. This grant…
Screenshot from the GD 303 augmented reality application to enhance the standard textbook.

Aug 7, 2019

Enhancing the Standard Textbook in GD 303 with Augmented Reality App

For this Exploratory Grant, the team designed and developed an augmented reality app that enhances the textbook, Graphic Design Theory — Graphic Design in Context by Meredith Davis. The app was created to improve students’ learning experiences, increase engagement, and help users better understand core concepts from the textbook. Varied and captivating AR experiences cover…
Peter Hessling at the DELTA Grants Showcase.

May 13, 2019

ELP 344: School and Society

This Online and Distance Education Grant took a fully online course dating back to the early days of online instruction at NC State and turned it into a comprehensive, easy-to-use and relevant course that students will learn from. It relied on year-long discussions about basic concepts of the course and online learning, which are fundamental…
Arthur Earnest uses the Matterport camera system to capture the feed mill in 3D.

May 13, 2019

FM 425/525: Decision Tree for Model Feed Mill Development

This Blended Learning Grant incorporated virtual tours of the custom feed mill facility across multiple courses and assignments to  strengthen the connection between classes in the program. An interactive layout tool increases student engagement and enthusiasm through ownership and interaction with their own facility. Interactive PDF assignments help students with creating decision points and applications…
Screenshot from the FLS 102 course Unity 3D city.

May 13, 2019

Changing Sombreros: FLS 102 Needs a Makeover

This Online and Distance Education Grant was designed to help third- and fourth-year students who are struggling to find engagement and motivation to advance from the undergraduate foreign language requirement to the 200 level. Instructional Challenges The course exhibited high enrollment but low engagement. Many students who begin the course don’t complete it. Grade distribution…
Headphones laying over a smartphone.

May 13, 2019

PRT 491: Sport Facility Virtual Reality Field Trips and Assessment

The theme of this project is empowering faculty. Team members developed a “bank” or collection of video and virtual tours with interactive elements of sports facilities at local, state, and national levels. They also created a scalable solution and procedure for faculty/staff to produce and maintain instructional video and virtual tours on their own and…

May 10, 2019

Applying Theory to Practice: CSC 316 Data Structures for Computer Scientists

The goal of this project was to create supplemental animations for the existing still graphics available in the course. Animations help students achieve better understanding by showing them how algorithms, processes and data structures work. The course redesign uses flipped-learning approach to create more in-class time for problem solving. Instructional Challenges Critical path computer science courses…
Graduate Teaching Assistant works in the CH 222 lab.

May 7, 2019

CH 222: Organic Chemistry Labs in Virtual Reality

As an Exploratory Grant, this project explored the benefits of immersive technology to help address limited access to lab-based education to a diverse population of students, such as deployed military and pregnant students. The team worked to capture five different face-to-face organic chemistry experiences in virtual reality. The experience transports the user into the lab…

May 2, 2018

GlobalVR: Teaching Cultural Competencies Through Virtual Reality

First Impressions, an interactive 360° VR video experience, allows students to learn about culture on both a cognitive and emotional level. This VR-mediated lesson allows participants to dive into the minds of a global project team. The module gives students a chance to experience a situation from multicultural points of view. Virtual reality provides unique…

May 2, 2018

Wolfpack Wellness 101

DELTA partnered with NC State Dining’s Director of Nutrition and Wellness Lisa Eberhart and University Recreation to create a gamified, interactive module to help students get to know the wellness resources that are available on campus. The project also satisfies an objective as part of the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthy Campus Initiative. NC…