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Aug 13, 2010

NC State University Learning Management System (LMS) update

Contributions from: Dr. Donna Petherbridge, Dr. Martin Dulberg, Stacy Gant, Greg Kraus, David Howard, Jeff Webster, Laura Stephenson, Bill Hicks & Daniel L’Hommedieu Gearing up for another academic year while continuing our LMS transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle, and moving toward a single point of entry (WolfWare) for our enterprise-level, Web-based instructional systems has… 

Jun 14, 2010

Instructors Create Coursepages in Just Days at Twelfth Summer Institute

Each summer, DELTA sees an increase in the number of faculty members charged with the task of putting some or all of their course content online. This sometimes daunting request leaves faculty members with a choice: Meander all summer through scattered resources on online teaching tools and methods, or attend DELTA’s one-week Summer Institute on… 

May 21, 2010

Register Online for Summer 2010 Workshops and Seminars

Gain practical Web skills, learn approaches for Learning Management System (LMS) migration and add to your repertoire of effective teaching with technology strategies. 

May 14, 2010

DELTA Launches College Course Templates for Instructors!

NC State course tools have a new look! College Course Templates provide a growing set of free and easy-to-use designs for NC State courses. Each design package provides a consistent visual solution for the tools used most in NC State courses. It gives instructors a great starting point, allowing them to focus on the content of their course… 

Apr 9, 2010

Testing Services Experiences Unprecedented Demand

Not many people like to hear the words “more tests.” For students, these words mean more all-nighters, cramped hands, and waiting anxiously for grades. For instructors, these words mean grading even more 50-question, five-page tests filled with barely-legible responses. But for DELTA Testing Services, “more tests” means an exciting opportunity to implement innovative technology to… 

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 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 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… 

Feb 5, 2010

Flu-Proofing Your Course: Planning Your Course to Anticipate Student Absences

Because there is a possibility that either you or many of your students may be absent from your course during the semester due to flu-related illness, it is important to develop contingency plans so that the course can continue and the students can complete essential components of the course. These contingencies can be reflected in your syllabus in areas of assignments, alternative in-class participation requirements, attendance and make up requirements, course calendar, and communication arrangements. 

Jan 11, 2010

Flu-Proofing Your Course: Student Presentations

If flu strikes, there are several options that will allow your students to give presentations, either to you or to everyone in the class.