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Mar 5, 2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Training Opportunity

For anyone who ever creates content for online consumption, understanding search engine optimization (SEO) will add value to every project you work on and every page of copy you write for web from that point on.

Mar 4, 2010

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute Offered

Our colleagues in the Office of Faculty Development would like to announce their first Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Summer Institute. This institute will provide an opportunity for NC State faculty to work collaboratively with peers and develop research projects focusing on teaching and learning. The SoTL Institute will meet for five days over…

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…

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 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…

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…

Jan 11, 2010

DELTA Spring Workshop Registration Now Open(Archive)

Registration for DELTA’s Spring 2010 Workshops and Seminars is now open to faculty, staff & graduate students. Our Spring classes start on Tuesday, January 26th and continue through April 29th. During this time, we are offering over 75 classes.

Jan 6, 2010

Hooray, Wimba Create License renewed!

For a more recent update read Wimba Create (formerly Course Genie) License Expires 11/30/2010. We previously announced that Wimba Create / Course Genie would no longer be supported at NC State. When NCSU told Wimba that we would be cancelling our license agreement, they made us an offer too good to refuse. We’re happy to…