student success

Jan 27, 2025

Meet Faculty Fellow Paul Fyfe

Associate Professor of English Paul Fyfe is using his DELTA Faculty Fellowship to explore the ethical implications of incorporating AI tools in the classroom.

Dec 19, 2024

AI Tools in the Classroom Offer Unprecedented Opportunities for Learning

DELTA researchers, instructional designers and multimedia specialists are at the forefront of helping NC State instructors implement generative AI tools in the classroom. Discover several grant projects and related research currently underway in this exciting space.

Dec 19, 2024

High Structure Course Design Improves Student Success

High structure course design is a relatively new approach to inclusive and active pedagogy that prioritizes student success through frequent and structured in-class activities, periodic feedback and instructor-facilitated peer-to-peer interactions.

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Dec 19, 2024

New Interactive Polling Platform Fosters Real-time Collaboration

DELTA is excited to announce a new educational partnership with Wooclap, an NC State enterprise technology tool that will support instructors in fostering student participation and engagement in online, hybrid and in-person courses.

Students experience and use the Talley Student Union on main campus. Photo by Marc Hall

Nov 19, 2024

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions 2024/25 Focuses on (Y)Our Health

Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions 2025 focuses on (Y)Our Health and will be offered Dec. 9 – Jan.5. It is a no-cost, two-credit course that encourages students to explore different disciplines, connect with their professors and peers, and apply learned skills to the world around them.

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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.

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Oct 23, 2024

Dialogues in Digital Learning: Tips and Strategies from DELTA Faculty Fellows

DELTA Faculty Fellows recently offered an interactive workshop to share tips for incorporating multimodal and scaleable educational technologies into course design. These technologies should be part of every instructor’s toolkit!

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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.

Decorative: A group photo of NC State faculty members and DELTA staff members at the 2024 DELTA-Con event.

Sep 20, 2024

24 Years of Digital Innovation: How DELTA Supports NC State Faculty

At the vanguard of digital higher education opportunities, NC State DELTA leads the way in fostering extraordinary digital learning experiences. Rediscover our pillar programs to support instructor innovation and student success.

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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.