2010

Mar 1, 2010

Summer Institute Application Now Open

Now in its twelfth year, the DELTA Summer Institute offers a great way for faculty to learn about instructional technology tools and techniques that support teaching and learning at NC State. The Summer Institute is being held May 17-21 in the D.H. Hill Library. The morning cohort runs from 8:45am – 1:30pm and the afternoon cohort… 

Feb 26, 2010

Engineering a Dynamic Statics Course

When students walk into an engineering course, they expect long lectures and complicated explanations. However, when students enter the 2009 experimental offering of MAE 206: Engineering Statics, they become something more than passive learners: they become managers, reporters, or skeptics. Students are transformed because of Dr. Anna Howard, teaching associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace… 

Feb 26, 2010

Moodle Express Workshop Available Online

We have a new Moodle workshop available online now - the Moodle Express: Top 5 Basics. This is a one hour workshop that covers... 

Feb 25, 2010

NC State Gertrude Cox Award Honors Campus Technology Innovators

Four NC State instructors and staff were honored with the Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence for Teaching and Learning with Technology at a ceremony in Talley Student Center on Monday, February 22. 

Feb 23, 2010

New Elluminate Tools

We recently released two new tools for use with Elluminate.  Both tools are available at https://delta.ncsu.edu/projects/elluminate/ Reporting Tool Moderators can now check meeting and recording attendance reports.  After clicking “My Meetings” or “My Recordings” you will see a list of all of the sessions you created, starting with the most recent.  Clicking the number in… 

Feb 22, 2010

ELI Spring Focus Session on Mobile Learning, March 3-4

DELTA and NCSU Libraries are co-hosting an exciting EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative event titled "Mobile Learning 2.0: The Next Phase of Innovation in Mobile" on March 3rd and 4th at DH Hill Library. 

Feb 16, 2010

Attrition in DE Courses and Strategies to Increase Retention

Have you heard your colleagues make the following statement? “Students are dropping out of my online course and the numbers are higher than I experienced in my face-to-face course. Why is the attrition rate so high? What can I do to increase retention?” Have you wondered if attrition rates are really higher in distance education (DE) courses? Do you want to know more? Then, read on! 

Feb 15, 2010

CALS Magazine Features Award-Winning Distance Education Course

A new Distance Education course, FS 201: Food Science and the Consumer, was recently featured in Perspectives Online, the magazine of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at NC State. In the article Dr. Keith Harris discusses his enthusiasm toward teaching about the science behind food, his experience in creating an instructionally-sound online course,… 

Feb 12, 2010

Interactive Technology Facilitates Gender and Science Education

Elementary school kids were drawing their best version of Einstein, his hair sticking straight up, wearing a long white lab coat, holding a test tube filled with potent bubbling, green liquid. As the NCSU Distance Education (DE) students collected and showed these drawings, the kids recognized the drawings had one thing in common: the scientists… 

Feb 5, 2010

Flu-Proofing Your Course: Planning Your Course to Anticipate Student Absences

Because there is a possibility that either you or many of your students may be absent from your course during the semester due to flu-related illness, it is important to develop contingency plans so that the course can continue and the students can complete essential components of the course. These contingencies can be reflected in your syllabus in areas of assignments, alternative in-class participation requirements, attendance and make up requirements, course calendar, and communication arrangements.