teaching with technology

Jul 28, 2011

Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit 2011(Archive)

From July 11th to the 13th, I attended and presented at the Blackboard Collaborate Community Summit. 

Jun 3, 2011

Announcing 2011-12 RFP for DELTA Large Course Redesign Pilot Grants

The 2011-12 RFP for DELTA Large Course Redesign (LCR) Pilot Grants has been released, with a submission due date of July 22, 2011. 

May 19, 2011

East Coast Game Conference 2011

The Triangle Game Conference started as a way for the local game developers to get together and share insights and techniques with anyone interested. 

May 17, 2011

Join us for the Summer Institute Open Elective Day(Archive)

This Friday (May 20th) is the final day of our annual Summer Institute on Teaching & Learning with Technology. 

Apr 25, 2011

TMS 211 – Weaving an integrated course

Distance education has come a long way since Dr. Jon Rust started teaching Introduction to Fiber Sciences (TMS 211) via post more than 20 years ago. 

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 22, 2010

Quality Matters and Course Evaluation

Over the years, DELTA has helped many instructors by reviewing their courses and offering suggestions for improvements. As a next step towards ensuring the quality of online courses, DELTA has been working during the last year to define and establish a course evaluation process for both fully online and blended (face-to-face and online) courses. The… 

Oct 16, 2010

Reflections on Educause 2010

A number of colleagues (and myself!) attended the Educause conference (which focuses on Information Technology and Higher Education) in Anaheim, CA, the week of October 12. I enjoy the opportunity to attend this conference when I can because I find that the sessions tend to be around the larger, strategic issues that higher education faces…