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The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 6, 2018 - I'm Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education covering innovation in and around academe. Subscribe here. Here's what's on my mind this week: Do corporate-style NDAs have a place in higher ed? The broad nondisclosure agreement Purdue University Global... Read More>

Campus Technology | August 13, 2018 - The role of the instructional designer first surfaced during World War II as experts in psychology and academics to create training and assessment materials for troops. Since then — and especially since the spread of digital learning in education — the ranks have only... Read More>

berkeleycollege.edu - More than 80 digital learning professionals, educators and administrators discussed opportunities and challenges in online learning during the OLC Collaborate conference on August 7, 2018, hosted by Berkeley College in Midtown Manhattan. The OLC Collaborate program, presented in partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), focused on predictive analytics,... Read More>

WSU Insider | August 6, 2018 -  More than 50 online educators from across the United States are in Pullman this week for a leadership development program.  Washington State University was selected by the Online Learning Consortium to host the 10th annual Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning, which features a blended-learning format. The... Read More>

WCET Frontiers | July 26, 2018 - The DETA Subgrant Award, a competitive proposal process, resulted in a special edition of the Online Learning Journal (OLJ) released last month. The OLJ issue included four articles focused on a broad range of phenomena relating to distance education, such as blended and online learning, and... Read More>

EdTech | July 25, 2018 - Higher ed experts reveal how their institutions approach digital transformation and what it takes to lead a successful project. Universities are focusing resources and manpower on improving outdated practices and technologies on campus with the latest innovations. But how many have a grasp of the state of innovation in... Read More>

Inside Higher Ed | July 25, 2018 - A white paper published yesterday by the Online Learning Consortium offers a look at the increasingly complex field of instructional design in higher education. The report, entitled "Instructional Design in Higher Education: Defining an Evolving Field," is the second in the consortium's Outlook... Read More>

EdSurge | July 17, 2018 - From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. Or so I thought. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus.... Read More>

Campus Technology | July 18, 2018 - The Online Learning Consortium (OLC)has introduced a series of original reports to keep people in education up-to-date on the latest developments in the field of digital learning. The first report covers accessibility and addresses both K-12 and higher education. The series is being produced by OLC's Research Center... Read More>

T|H|E Journal | July 18, 2018 - The Online Learning Consortium (OLC)has introduced a series of reports to keep people in education up-to-date on the latest developments in the field of digital learning. The first report covers accessibility and addresses both K-12 and higher education. The series is being produced by OLC's Research Center... Read More>