Teaching (and Learning) Through Technology | Faculty and Staff - NC State News

DELTA Grants program empowers faculty to revolutionize classroom and online instruction, summarizes Suzanne Stanard, employee of North Carolina State University.

A graphic design theory textbook comes to life, thanks to a DELTA Grants project that uses augmented reality.

Deb Littlejohn admits it can be difficult to keep college students – especially more than 100 of them – interested in particular courses. That’s why the graphic design professor turned to DELTA for help shaking the stigma that all theory courses are, well, boring.
She won a DELTA Grant last year that will bring her graphic design theory course textbook to life and, she hopes, engage her students in an entirely new way...

There are six types of DELTA Grants, from “rapid design course grants” that enable faculty to quickly produce quality online and distance education courses to “blended learning grants” that combine the best of face-to-face and online learning practices.
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Source: NC State News