2024 Report: Empowering Change Together
As the higher education landscape undergoes rapid transformation, educators continue to seek best practices for creating quality digital, blended, and online learning experiences. However, disparate definitions of quality and differing instructor and student preferences complicate this work. This report addresses the pressing need to bridge the gap between student and faculty expectations, highlighting the critical role of student voices in defining quality education.
OLC Leadership Network Symposium 2023 Report
About the Leadership Network Symposium Leadership has been foundational to OLC initiatives, workshops, and events since the founding of the Sloan Consortium in 1992. As interest in leadership strategy and community-building has grown over the intervening years, we have been inspired by the success of our previous Leadership Network events and requests from leaders across […]
Leveraging Professor-Student Partnerships for Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning
About the Report In January 2021, Eric Loepp, a faculty member in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Will Hinz, a member of the student government, administered a survey to students in order to answer big questions surrounding higher education during the fall 2020 semester. Like other institutions, theirs was […]
Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Change: Realizing the Promise of Professional Learning
About the Report Created By: Achieving the Dream (ATD) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere Research shows that professional learning (often called “faculty development”) has the potential to transform teaching and advance equity, learning and student success. Yet notable gaps in practice undercut its impact. This report, Teaching, Learning, […]
2022 OLC Blended Learning Symposium Report
About the Report In November 2002, at the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, a small group of higher education professionals were discussing a new phenomenon: faculty were mixing face-to-face and online learning instructional techniques in their courses. This new approach to teaching and learning was distinct from both fully F2F and online learning. Faculty […]