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Feb 18, 2016

HI 354: Design Active Learning for DE Course

HI 354, Rise of the American Empire, was developed as a new distance education course to fulfill a large demand from students in the History department. DELTA staff worked with Dr. Nancy Mitchell to design this course by placing a strong emphasis on progressively developing and reflecting on viewpoints, as well as assessing and utilizing…

Feb 18, 2016

BCH 453/553: Support Conceptual Understanding

BCH 453/553, Biochemistry of Gene Expression, is a distance education course redesigned from an existing face-to-face course. DELTA staff worked with Dr. Cynthia Hemenway to reorganize the course materials into topics and modules, develop concept maps and diagrams to represent the knowledge structure, and create various online learning activities to support students’ conceptual understanding. Instructional…

Feb 18, 2016

Measurements Using EverydaY Technologies (MyTech)

DELTA staff collaborated with Dr. Colleen Countryman, a physics education researcher, to design and develop a mobile app named Measurements Using EverydaY Technologies (MyTech), which is intended to provide meaningful laboratory experiences to students in PY 206 (originally PY 205) Physics for Scientists and Engineers I, while reducing the cost of departmental resources. By visually…

Feb 5, 2016

SMART Videos in CH 222/224

DELTA staff collaborated with the 2014-15 DELTA Grant recipient and director of the organic chemistry teaching laboratories, Dr. Maria Gallardo-Williams, to develop an innovative approach to video instruction. With the cooperation of more than 20 NC State students, SMART (Student-Made Audiovisuals Reinforcing Techniques) videos were developed for Chemistry CH 222 and CH 224 labs to administer a heightened…

Jun 11, 2015

ARC 375 [492/590]: Experiencing Cities

Together with the four instructors, Cathi Dunnagan, instructional designer, and David Tredwell, new media specialist, designed the student experience around the concept of traveling to sites and locations across time. Using Moodle’s completion tracking, Dunnagan designed one block as the “Itinerary” that lists each module with itemized content. The itinerary tracks progress and provides quick access…

Jun 4, 2015

Scaffolding Service Learning Inquiry in WGS/STS 210

DELTA staff collaborated with Dr. Deena Murphy, instructor in Interdisciplinary Studies, to redesign the service learning project in WGS 210: Women and Gender in Science and Technology, which is a distance education General Education Program (GEP) course at NC State. Prior to the redesign, Dr. Murphy worked with DELTA to convert the face-to-face version of…

May 28, 2015

ANS 110: Introduction to Equine Science and “Trot to Trophy”

Both a prerequisite course for upper-level courses in the Department of Animal Science and a natural science course for the university’s GEP requirements, ANS 110: Introduction to Equine Science serves a unique group of students with highly varied levels of experience with horses. To help meet this range of student needs and to gather more…

Feb 5, 2015

PB 200: Plant Life

A combined lecture and lab course, PB 200: Plant Life introduces students to the structure, processes and reproduction of higher plants, and to principles of inheritance, ecology and evolution. With funding from a DELTA IDEA grant, Drs. Chad Jordan and James Mickle collaborated with DELTA staff to create a Distance Education (DE) version of the…

Aug 22, 2013

ENT 401 Honey Bee LifeCycle Activity

DELTA collaborated with David Tarpy to create a new Distance Education (DE) version of an existing face-to-face course, ENT 401: Honey Bee Biology and Management. This is an upper-level class that focuses on the biology and management of honey bees. One of the key deliverables was an interactive content-delivery and quizzing activity that emphasized the…

Aug 22, 2013

ADN 414 Demonstration Videos

Teaching skills to students can be difficult in a Distance Education environment. In ADN 414: Color and Light, Charles Joyner teaches his students how to mix paint, paint swatches and apply swatches to a mounting surface to form a composition. Instructional Challenges The primary instructional challenge was teaching students a particular set of skills that…