Online Education

Mar 10, 2010

Spring TLTR Session: The Horizon Report 2010

The New Media Consortium’s (NMC) (http://www.nmc.org) Horizon Report 2010 describes emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning or creative inquiry on college and university campuses. In this session, a panel of NC State faculty and staff who serve on the NMC’s Campus Leaders Advisory Board (C-LAB) will describe and discuss the six emerging…

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…

Jan 20, 2010

Social Media Marketing in Higher Education

Below is a great article that I ran across on Social Media Marketing in Higher Education. It happens to be a great read and also discusses avenues for future marketing that many institutions are reluctant to grasp. It discusses how to reach students through direct marketing methods by asking them to become ambassadors for you,…

Nov 30, 2009

Tips for Teaching Online

From the desks of: Dr. Donna Petherbridge, Amanda Robertson, & Dr. Traci Temple There are many things to think about when planning and teaching an online course. A lot of what you already know about teaching in a conventional classroom can be transferred to an online environment. We want to share with you four tips…

Oct 15, 2009

Flu-Proof Your Course: Discussions

Coursework in a university depends on a constant dialogue among students and faculty. Your class depends on the interaction and engagement of your students, and getting students involved in class discussions is important. But, if illness makes it impossible for some of your students to attend class sessions, how do you keep them engaged and…

Sep 23, 2009

Upcoming Faculty Seminar Series: Teaching Larger Classes(Archive)

Many classes at NC State are larger this year because of budget cuts and increased enrollment. This seminar series is designed to assist faculty in developing and sharing strategies for effectively teaching larger classes. The Office of Faculty Development, in collaboration with DELTA, announce their fall seminar series: Teaching Larger Classes: Issues and Effective Strategies for…

Sep 21, 2009

“Flu-Proofing” a Course: Where do you start?

As stories related to H1N1 continue to appear in places as varied as our own Technician and in Inside Higher Education, the possibility of social distancing(at worst) or students (or you) missing more class than usual due to the flu (at best), may come to mind. The flu may take a week, or more, to…

Aug 14, 2009

Surviving Internet Explorer – Embracing Standards in Web Design

Designing a web site is a complicated process. Once you have identified the need, the audience and the pieces that connect the two, it is time to focus on implementation. A web page’s layout is a delicate dance of content sections whose relationships are determined by a set of display rules called Cascading Style Sheets…