faculty development

Sep 21, 2012

ELI Online Fall Focus Session: Emerging Technologies, Innovation, and Academic Transformation

Attendees will have the chance to be engaged in exploring current practices and successful models for working with instructional innovations. 

Sep 14, 2011

Office of Faculty Development Fall Workshop Opportunities(Archive)

The Office of Faculty Development is excited to announce the kickoff for this semester's workshop program. 

Mar 7, 2011

Welcoming Students in an Online Course

The following post was created as a way to introduce online instructors to some general best practices when beginning a course.  Grounded in educational research literature, the practices and descriptions below offer an overview that will help instructors reinvigorate their beginning of semester activities. Just as in the face-to-face classroom, you will want to start… 

Feb 14, 2011

April 8 Teaching and Learning Symposium

The Office of Faculty Development will be hosting its first campus-wide Teaching and Learning Symposium (TLS) on April 8, 2011. This event will celebrate exemplary teaching at North Carolina State University. Provost Warwick Arden will be presenting university teaching awards and Dr. Maryellen Weimer, Professor Emeritus of Teaching and Learning, Pennsylvania State University, will deliver… 

Dec 20, 2010

Teaching Strategies for Online Group Work

As an online instructor, working with groups presents a special challenge. Problems in working with online groups are not unique, and concerns about working with student groups in both face-to-face and online environments are certainly expressed to me by other faculty. While difficult to manage at times, I am a big believer in teaming students for certain assignments, because the ability to collaborate with others and the inevitable collaboration and project management experience that comes in working with multiple individuals on an assignment are skills as valuable as the other content that students will take away from my course. 

Oct 13, 2010

Office of Faculty Development sponsors “Thank a teacher” program

Am passing this on from my colleagues in the Office of Faculty Development – love this idea! In order to provide NC State students a way to express appreciation to faculty who have impacted their university experience in a positive way, the Office of Faculty Development (OFD) is implementing a “Thank a Teacher” Program. Through this… 

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… 

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 the… 

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. 

Jan 26, 2010

Office of Faculty Development announces spring workshop schedule!(Archive)

Please note that our colleagues in the Office of Faculty Development have announced their spring workshop schedule. See http://www.ncsu.edu/faculty-development/seminars-workshops/index.html for details.