OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime.
The Online Learning Consortium partners with our dedicated member community to achieve excellence in digital learning through innovative programs, research, events, evaluation tools, and professional development designed for diverse roles and contexts.
Setting the global standard in online, blended, and digital learning.
Our Mission
Creating community and knowledge around quality online, blended, and digital learning while driving innovation.
OLC Dimensions of Quality
The Sustainable Application of Quality and Innovation
These five dimensions are the building blocks of quality in online and blended learning, providing institutions and organizations with a way to assess and iteratively improve their efforts at macro and micro levels as they progress towards a more equitable and impactful educational future.
We’ve come a long way to ensure anytime, anyplace learning is possible. Starting out as Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) in 1999, we have been the leading professional online learning society devoted to advancing quality e-Education into the mainstream of education through its community.
The Online Learning Consortium is a Collaborative Community
of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Our staff partners with you daily to promote equity, inclusion, and excellence in online, blended and digital learning through professional development, research, and community connections.
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Virtual | March 3-5, 2026
OLC Innovate provides a path for innovators of all experience levels and backgrounds to share best practices, test new ideas, and collaborate on driving forward online, digital, and blended learning. Join us as we challenge our teaching and learning paradigms, reimagine the learning experience, and ideate on how disruptions in education today will shape the innovative classroom of tomorrow.