online learning

An expo participant strolls through a water garden in downtown Raleigh through an untethered real-time 3D mobile virtual reality experience. The project is a collaboration between DELTA and the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Design.

Nov 6, 2018

A New Reality for Online Education

Online instruction at NC State is taking on a whole new meaning, thanks to emerging virtual reality technologies and the DELTA staff members who adapt them for faculty and staff to use.

Oct 19, 2018

Faculty Fellow Stacy Supak Enhances Online Learning Experience

As a DELTA Faculty Fellow, Stacy Supak will investigate how experiences in online courses influence student success. She specializes in online learning and teaches half of the credit hours at the Center for Geospatial Analytics.

Aug 23, 2018

Bartlett Receives Award for Online Innovation

Teaching Assistant Professor Michelle Bartlett received the Wagner Innovation Award at the 2018 Distance Learning Administration conference in June. Bartlett’s leadership and innovative solutions as the director of the online Training and Development master’s and certificate programs landed her this award.

Aug 21, 2018

DELTA Announces 2018-2019 Grant Recipients

DELTA awarded more than $240,000 in new and continuing DELTA Grants to 29 recipients across the university including eight academic colleges and the Division of Academic and Student Affairs. DELTA Grants apply innovative pedagogy, instructional technology and course design to solve instructional challenges.

An instructor using Top Hat in his course. He is standing at front of large classroom using a Tablet. Students have cellphones in hand.

Aug 3, 2018

Top Hat Gains Traction at NC State

It’s been one year since NC State acquired a campus license for Top Hat, allowing faculty and students to use it at no cost. We caught up with a few instructors to hear their stories of successfully implementing Top Hat and how the use of this interactive classroom tool is benefiting their teaching as well as student learning.

Angie Smith facilitates a yarn toss activity during her session at the 2017 Summer Shorts program. The group is passing around a ball of yarn.

Aug 1, 2018

Navigating Online Teaching: Perspective from a Faculty Fellow

Teaching Associate Professor Angie Smith began her online teaching journey eight years ago in the Counselor Education program. Read about her new book, collaborations and hopes of helping new instructors navigate online teaching.

Jul 17, 2018

10 Things to Know About DELTA

DELTA fosters the integration and support of learning technologies in NC State’s academic programs, both on campus and at a distance. Whether you’re a new online instructor or have been teaching on campus for a while, check out the top 10 things you should know about DELTA.

Summer Shorts participants in a discussion at DELTA-Con.

Jul 5, 2018

Registration Open for Summer Shorts(Archive)

Join us Aug. 13-17 for DELTA’s annual Summer Shorts in Instructional Technologies featuring a brand new pre-conference WolfWare Bootcamp in addition to general conference sessions on innovative instruction, teaching online and student engagement followed by the second-annual DELTA-Con.

May 1, 2018

WolfWare Outreach Offers a Variety of Non-Credit Opportunities

Wondering just how programs, organizations, departments and instructors from across the university are using WolfWare Outreach? We explore three types of WolfWare Outreach offerings from the Department of Horticultural Sciences, the Intensive English Program, and Industry Expansion Solutions.

Apr 30, 2018

DELTA’s Planning and Assessment Team Positively Impacts Student Success

DELTA's Planning and Assessment team makes a broad impact across DELTA and the university. With a focus on Online and Distance Education programs, student and faculty support, DELTA Grants projects and research, the planning and assessment team works to make data-driven decisions for promoting student success.