Challenge(s) The Hill Center, a school and training center for both teaching students with learning differences and training K12 teachers on how to teach students with learning differences, desired an enhanced design approach for their online courses that would also include branding for their online course portal, (delivered through the LMS LearnUpon) and their courses, that
Home Horticulture
Challenge(s) Learning horticultural practices has traditionally been a hands-on process. Students interact with the plants, soils and tools to both learn and affirm their understanding of concepts covered. Expanding the offering of this course to online delivery was necessary to meet the demands of this popular course for college students both within and outside the
Hill Learning System (HLS)
Challenge(s) The Hill Center, a school and training center for both teaching students with learning differences and training K12 teachers on how to teach students with learning differences, desired a portal to be designed to help them deliver online instruction to teachers at a distance. They had previously hired an application development firm to develop
Gamification of Sport Management
Challenge(s) Introduction to Sport Management, taught by Edwin Lindsay at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, serves a population of nearly 400 students annually. One of the primary objectives of this course is to expose students to the wide range of courses in the field of Sport Management, and to aid them in
Biochemistry of Gene Expression
Challenge(s) Biochemistry of Gene Expression is a 400 and 500 level course offered at NC State University to undergraduate and graduate students. Among a wide range of topics in the course, students study the physical properties of DNA and RNA, the processes of replication, transcription and translation and how they interact in terms of protein
Digital Imaging
Challenge(s) Digital Imaging is a critique-based digital design course. Students learn several of the Adobe design applications while employing design principles and theories taught in the course. The course was traditionally taught in a computer lab, which limited enrollments to the number of computers in the lab to about 18. To meet a growing demand