Advancing Digital Learning Leadership Everywhere

Your Pathway to Excellence in Digital Learning

The Online Learning Consortium™ (OLC) 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.

Devoted to Advancing Quality Digital Learning

Since our founding in 1999, we’ve become the go-to source for everything related to digital learning. Thousands of educators rely on The Online Learning Consortium for expert guidance, professional development and resources to help them excel in digital learning.

Join the Online Learning Consortium at Our Annual Events

Our events attract a dynamic and engaged audience, offering exceptional opportunities to network, explore emerging technologies, and exchange insights on online, blended, and digital learning. Join thousands of faculty, administrators, course designers, and professionals committed to advancing quality digital education.

Challenge our teaching and learning paradigms, reimagine the learning experience, and ideate on the innovative classroom of tomorrow. Discover OLC Innovate 2025

Get the latest information of online learning research findings, current practice, emerging trends and promising new technologies. Discover OLC Accelerate 2025

New Approaches to Enhance Digital Teaching Programs

OLC offers of courses designed to help educators worldwide strengthen teaching strategies, delivery methods and learning activities.

Enroll in a workshop to enhance your professional development and online learning skills.

Attend our webinars hosted by industry experts covering the latest online learning topics.

Become a master by designing an effective learning environment in your field of interest.

Get certified and enhance your skills to be more effective in the principles of online teaching.

As Learning Evolves, So Does Our Understanding of It

OLC Publications and Resources keep you on top of a world where technology is radically changing how educating and learning is approached.

From a network of your peers. The OLC library covers all aspects of eLearning with high quality research that investigates how online environments amplify, shape, and constrain teaching and learning. Here you will find information providing effective approaches and interventions that promote online student engagement, persistence, improvement, and success.

Draw on the Collective Experience of a Global Network

We provide strategically sophisticated yet practical advice to help colleges, universities and educators identify strengths and weaknesses of their e-learning programs.
Quality Scorecard™
Benchmarking Online Learning Standards

Measure and quantify elements of quality within your digital education programs with our Quality Scorecard methodology. The program offers criteria for excellence in the administration of e-learning programs which includes over 72 quality indicators for higher education. This is an exclusive OLC member benefit.

Join a Visionary Group of e-Learning Leaders

Membership provides you and your faculty with great benefits and privileges — discounted pricing on conferences and workshops, free webinars, peer networking, early access to research and more.

We offer several levels of membership, including professional and institutional memberships. Find which one is right for you!

Virtual | April 1-3, 2025

OLC Innovate, a joint conference presented by OLC and MERLOT, 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.

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