best practices

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. 

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. 

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. 

Jun 24, 2024

A Universal Design for Learning Approach to Supporting Neurodiverse Students

More than 1,100 NC State students identified as neurodivergent during the spring 2024 semester. DELTA can help you to connect with all students by offering guidance and best practices for student success. You can learn more about how to support your students with tips on planning, prioritizing, organizing and helping students to stay focused. 

Jul 18, 2023

Teaching Resources: Hybrid and HyFlex Key Takeaways

Which learning modality do you prefer? Learn more about hybrid and HyFlex teaching and technology strategies from a DELTA instructional designer and faculty fellows 

Jul 14, 2023

DELTA Knowledge Base Highlights to Start Your Semester

Did you know the DELTA Knowledge Base articles can provide you with answers to your instructional technology challenges? The solutions are right at your fingertips! Learn more with this month’s highlighted feature articles to help with fall semester planning. 

Jun 22, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: How are Your Students Actually using Moodle?

Did you know that you can use reports generated from Moodle’s IntelliBoard to guide you in your course revisions? Summer is a great time to plan and streamline your course content so you will be ready for the fall. Make the effort to learn more about how students engage with your content to focus your planning efforts. 

May 25, 2023

DELTA Offers Summer Self-Paced Workshops

Want to start the fall semester with a new, more organized approach to your course? DELTA can help with a variety of asynchronous, self-paced online workshops available this summer. Take a look at the choices to discover sessions that suit your organizational needs. 

May 23, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: Getting Organized with the Moodle Checklist

Do you want to foster student success by reducing stress and making course content more manageable? Take a look at this month’s tip on Moodle Checklists. This tool helps break down tasks into smaller ones listed on an interactive checklist. This process also helps you organize and track student engagement. 

May 23, 2023

DELTA Grant Deliverables Promote Student Success in Obtaining Ph.D. Degree in Statistics

DELTA Grant produces self-paced refresher modules in the form of video tutorials and complex 2 and 3D graphics to provide a bridge into this foundational course that is required to earn a Ph.D. in statistics.