Month: February 2023

Feb 28, 2023

2023-2024 DELTA Grants Submissions Accepted Soon

Are you ready to partner with DELTA and set your project proposal into motion? DELTA Grants provide support, key services and financial resources to increase student success through faculty partnerships. The submission system opens April 3, and proposals are due by 5 p.m. on May 1. 

Feb 28, 2023

Does My Course Content Need a Change?

This spring, DELTA is offering the following types of grants: Faculty Fellows, Course Improvement, Critical Path, Course Design and Exploratory Grants. Each grant includes an award stipend that allows you to foster student success by creating/improving course content organization and delivery. 

Feb 27, 2023

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Mariana Gallegos

Project Manager Mariana Gallegos has worked for DELTA for four years. She grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and graduated from Arizona State University before moving to Raleigh.  She also has a real estate license, and prior to working with DELTA, she worked with HGTV. She was responsible for exploring the online aspect of linking products… 

Feb 24, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: Using the Panopto Table of Contents to Reduce Cognitive Load

Help students focus on your content and achieve learning goals by reducing their cognitive load! For example, if you use lecture videos in your instruction, try creating them in Panopto or uploading them to Panopto. Then, use linked time stamps in the Table of Contents feature to help students focus on smaller chunks of information.… 

Feb 24, 2023

DELTA Instructional Consultation: What’s it Like?

If you need guidance on course design, teaching strategies or instructional tools, DELTA can help. These brainstorming sessions are designed to discover the optimal approach for your course content creation, organization and delivery. DELTA experts can help you at any point in the process! 

Feb 24, 2023

Accessibility Tip: Formatting Headings

Headings provide information about the organizational structure for screen readers and sighted users alike. Sighted users and screen readers both skim through a document looking for the relevant sections and properly formatted headings are what makes this possible. Making text bolder and larger is not the same thing as creating headers. Use the built-in headers,… 

Feb 24, 2023

LearnTech Implements Knowledge-Centered Service Approach to Enhance Self-Service Offerings

The Instructional Technology Support (IST) team revamped its process for creating and publishing knowledge articles to enhance self-service resources for faculty and staff. In addition, a new Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) channel exists in the DELTA Slack workspace to expand the reach beyond the LearnTech team across campus. 

Feb 20, 2023

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor and DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren looks for innovative methods that support her teaching initiatives and students. She’s excited to explore further what we can learn from data about our teaching, our students' learning and our processes. 

Feb 18, 2023

IntelliBoard Encourages Faculty Intervention

Want a simple way to discover which students need support before the first project or exam is due? A new enterprise tool, IntelliBoard, provides analytics that answer this question, and we have the inside scoop from DELTA Faculty Fellows about their experience with the tool. 

Feb 13, 2023

Three Classroom Strategies for ChatGPT

Ready or not, ChatGPT has arrived and similar Chatbot releases are on the horizon. DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren shares an overview of this new release as well as three teaching strategies to assist in working with this new platform.