NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 23 number 3 - Spring 2003

LRCDA: LTS Faculty Development Services Group

By Donna Petherbridge, Faculty Development Services

The Learning Technology Service (LTS), a division of DELTA (Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications) is a service unit dedicated to providing NC State faculty, staff, and graduate students with support and resources in the area of teaching and learning with technology (TLT). The LTS consists of three groups: Faculty Development Services, focusing on faculty support and training for TLT activities; Online Instructional Programs, focusing on online program design and development; and Technology Development, focusing on technology infrastructure planning and implementation. The majority of the LTS staff resides in the Venture III building on NC State’s Centennial Campus.

The Faculty Development Services group, as part of the integration of the LTS into the Learning and Research Center for the Digital Age (LRCDA), is now located in a newly renovated space on the second floor, East Wing, of the D. H. Hill Library, with offices adjacent to the Digital Library Initiatives Department. This move, which returns core LTS faculty support staff to the library near their former location, will enable Faculty Development Services to continue to provide NC State with technical training, seminars, and consultations from a more-centralized, easily accessible location.

Faculty Development Services provides faculty, staff, and graduate students with workshops and seminars to support TLT activities; hosts, in conjunction with the Libraries, an annual Summer Institute for faculty on TLT issues; runs the Instructional Technology Assistant program; and provides instructional house calls and custom training for faculty, staff, and students engaged in TLT activities. Learn more about the LTS Faculty Development Services group by visiting its Web site at http://lts.ncsu.edu/facdev or by sending an electronic-mail message to learntech@ncsu.edu.