Archives - August, 2018

Young Woman Using Checklists for Online Learning - Student Success

Checking off Checklists

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.

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Checklists help students to be more metacognitive and to self-regulate their learning. Well-defined checklists can make expectations clear for students and help them monitor their progress in completing the expectations.

Reluctant to Ready - Support for New Online Instructors

It’s accurate to put me in the “reluctant online teacher” category. I am tired of the grind of the commute, which continues to get worse every year, and I see how teaching online will reduce the hours in my car. Therefore, I decided I was going to give online teaching a real chance. If I was going to take the plunge to build an online course, I was going to make THE BEST course I possibly could, and I was going to do it the right way the first time.

Rubrics and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes

Raising the Floor

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D

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While rubrics sound like a critical tool for teaching and learning, I find that few educators enjoy making them or using them. I attribute this to several reasons. First, good rubrics are hard to make. It can be difficult to capture the essence of an assignment in objective and observable terms.

People Talking Ideas Attending Conference Choices

OLC Accelerate: An All You Can Eat Engagement Buffet

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Taylor Kendal

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When it comes to opportunity, there’s much more than meets the eye for OLC Accelerate attendees. The formal sessions, while vitally important as the foundational conference scaffold, need to be viewed as supplements and mental catalysts within a much wider network of potential for connection and engagement. The OLC leadership team has worked tirelessly to envision a four-day experience, not just a conference

Collaborate NYC Conference

Reflections on OLC Collaborate NYC

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Liz Ciabocchi, Devon Cancilla, & Russell Poulin

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Liz Ciabocchi (Emcee and panel moderator) Earlier this week, I was fortunate to participate in the OLC Collaborate Conference in New York City, co-sponsored by the host institution, Berkeley College. As a member of the OLC Board of Directors, I Read More >

Accelerate Field Guide Program

5 Professional Benefits of Volunteering as an OLC Accelerate Field Guide

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Matthea Marquart and Taylor Kendal

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One distinctive characteristic of the Online Learning Consortium’s conferences is the organization’s support for members who want to experiment with new ideas to continually improve the attendee experience.  Last year, OLC launched a new social engagement program at OLC Accelerate called the Field Guide program, and thanks to popular demand, we’re happy to announce that it will return this year.

What is learner presence?

What about Learner Presence?

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Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.

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In science, researchers see theories and ideas as being tentative.  New information can be introduced that prompts reflection and re-examination.  For example, Copernicus’ work forced astronomers to re-evaluate whether the Earth was the center of the solar system and it Read More >