2013

Oct 1, 2013

Learning Analytics in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography

Just as big data has become big business in industries from marketing to medicine, so too has it found a place in higher education. Companies use the “data exhaust” we leave in our wake as we traverse the World Wide Web to generate advice and ads, recommend music and movies, and connect us to friends… 

Sep 26, 2013

Campus Partners Bring Diversity to DELTA Workshops & Seminars

This semester, DELTA has once again partnered with NC State faculty and staff members from several departments to provide a diverse selection of free workshops and seminars. These campus partners will share their expertise and experience on a variety of topics related to teaching and learning with technology, including online course development, course accessibility, social media use and small group collaboration. 

Sep 26, 2013

Website Redesign Features Service-Oriented Approach

DELTA launched a newly redesigned website, focused on helping you learn about our services more easily, get help faster and learn more about our work with university departments, faculty and courses. The service-oriented navigation guides our key audience, NC State faculty and staff, to DELTA’s service areas, where they can explore details and contact information about… 

Aug 19, 2013

Fall 2013 Workshops & Seminars Registration Opens August 26!(Archive)

Attend DELTA workshops and seminars to learn about instructional technologies and online teaching strategies that you can apply to your course Effective communication and engagement in an online classroom. Technical and pedagogical techniques for student assessment. Research-based and real world teaching principles for instruction. Join us this fall for these and other trending teaching and… 

Aug 14, 2013

LMS Updates: August 12, 2013

As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the usability & feature set of WolfWare, DELTA recently made several updates to our campus LMS tools, specifically Moodle and Collaborate. Here is a summary of work performed on August 12th, 2013. Moodle 1. On the courses server, we made login changes allowing for direct to Shibboleth… 

Aug 9, 2013

2013 – 2014 IDEA Grant Recipients

DELTA is pleased to announce the awarding of $80,000 in new IDEA Grants to 10 recipients across six academic colleges. The lead faculty member and title for each project supported this year are listed below: Recipient Project Title Suzie Goodell The Development of a Distance Education Course with a Service-Learning Component: NTR 210- Community Food… 

Jun 5, 2013

Moodle Updates: June 1, 2013

As you may be aware, software like Moodle requires regular maintenance to keep it running smoothly,  performing well, up to date with security fixes, to allow us to change settings and to add new features. We schedule regular maintenance windows to work on all of the LMS tools (usually Saturday mornings) throughout the year. Please… 

May 29, 2013

Summer 2013 Workshops & Seminars Registration Now Open!(Archive)

To see a complete list of offerings and secure your spot, visit delta.ncsu.edu/workshops. 

May 16, 2013

Moodle 2 Courses(Archive)

May 17th is the big day! After planning, programming, preparation and previewing, Moodle 2 is going live for students and summer classes. Please don’t wait till the last minute to upgrade your course for the summer or fall. A few things have changed with Moodle 2, and DELTA wants to make sure you get the… 

May 16, 2013

Moodle Project Spaces

For all Moodle 1.9 Project Space owners, please be aware that you will need to move any Moodle 1.9 project spaces that you are still using to Moodle 2. The owners of Moodle 1.9 Project Spaces are responsible for moving them to Moodle 2 (we do have tools to help you!). Please read the information…