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DELTA’s Course Quality Program Fosters Excellence in Online Learning

Author: Nicole Reeve-Parker

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Nov 11, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Dajha Houston

Instructional Technologist Dajha Houston brought her many years of classroom teaching experience to bear on her work at DELTA. 
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Oct 29, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Andrew Wiedner

DELTA Multimedia Specialist Andrew Wiedner flexes his design and illustrative muscles to help tell DELTA’s story through interactive, media-focused web applications. 
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Oct 23, 2024

DELTA Honored with 2024 Quality Matters “Making a Difference for Students” Award

The NC State DELTA Course Quality team was honored with the 2024 Quality Matters (QM) “Making a Difference for Students” Outstanding Impact by a Higher Education Organization award in recognition of outstanding efforts in service of quality assurance practices in online courses. 
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Oct 23, 2024

Dialogues in Digital Learning: Tips and Strategies from DELTA Faculty Fellows

DELTA Faculty Fellows recently offered an interactive workshop to share tips for incorporating multimodal and scaleable educational technologies into course design. These technologies should be part of every instructor’s toolkit! 
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Oct 23, 2024

Ungrading: Empowering Student Success through Feedback and Reflection

Ungrading is a movement to decenter the role of grades in formal learning environments in favor of qualitative instructor feedback and student self-reflection. With support from a DELTA Exploratory Grant, NC State instructor Lisa Falk implemented a variety of Moodle tools in her courses to foster ungrading success. 
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Oct 1, 2024

DELTA Vice Provost Donna Petherbridge Elected to EDUCAUSE Board of Directors

Vice Provost for Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) Donna Petherbridge has been appointed to the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors for a four-year term effective October 1.  
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Sep 27, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Mike Cuales

As DELTA’s Director of Digital Media Innovation, Cuales serves as a creative digital strategist and storyteller. He manages a diverse team of designers, developers and video producers in the creation of innovative multimedia learning experiences. 
Decorative: A group photo of NC State faculty members and DELTA staff members at the 2024 DELTA-Con event.

Sep 20, 2024

24 Years of Digital Innovation: How DELTA Supports NC State Faculty

At the vanguard of digital higher education opportunities, NC State DELTA leads the way in fostering extraordinary digital learning experiences. Rediscover our pillar programs to support instructor innovation and student success. 
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Sep 20, 2024

Collaborative Research Highlights Value of Inclusive Course Design in Fostering Student Success

Initial findings of new research conducted jointly by DELTA Research and the Office for Faculty Excellence suggest a strong correlation between inclusive teaching practices and positive outcomes for students including increased feelings of belonging, perceptions of instructor caring, overall course satisfaction and course performance. 
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Aug 21, 2024

DELTA’s Course Quality Program Fosters Excellence in Online Learning

DELTA’s Course Quality (CQ) Program delivers on our commitment to student success by providing NC State instructors with a comprehensive menu of services, resources and research to ensure the quality of their online and hybrid courses.