Honorees will be recognized at the upcoming OLC Accelerate Conference, Nov. 14-16, in Orlando. NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Oct. 9, 2018) — The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) today announced the 2018 class of OLC Fellows as well as recipients of the 2018 Effective Practice Awards, the 2018 Bruce N. Chaloux Scholarship for Early... Read More>

eCampus News | October 1, 2018 - Online learning programs are on the rise, and this means institutions must ensure high-quality programs in the face of stiff competition A new self-evaluation tool offers a way for institutions to determine if they’re offering a supportive and high-quality online learning program. The Online Learning Consortium’s OLC... Read More>

Campus Technology | September 26, 2018 - Contract cheating — the use of essay writing services to manufacture coursework — is on the rise, along with other forms of academic dishonesty. Here's how technology can and can't help. When 13 undergraduate engineering students were booted out of the program at Australia's Deakin University in... Read More>

Campus Technology | September 25, 2018 - A new self-evaluation tool from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) measures the services and supports in place for online students. Developed out of a joint initiative with the State University System of Floridaand the Florida College System, the OLC Quality Scorecard for Online Student Support is designed to help identify gaps... Read More>

Education Dive | September 24, 2018 - Dive Brief: Many students at the University of Central Florida's College of Business are pushing back on a new blended learning modality that reduces classroom instruction and invests more time in online learning and group projects, Inside Higher Ed reported. The university, which has more than... Read More>

OLC Accelerate 2018 (Nov. 14-16, Orlando) will gather thousands of online learning researchers, practitioners and EdTech innovators from around the world to share and discover effective practices and evaluate technologies for teaching and learning online. NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Sept. 25, 2018) — The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) anticipates nearly 2,000 online... Read More>

Latest addition to the OLC Quality Scorecard Suite provides self-evaluation guidelines for institutions seeking to deliver a high-quality online student experience by improving the support provided to online learners. NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Sept. 24, 2018) — The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) today introduced the OLC Quality Scorecard for Online Student Support, a... Read More>

The Courseware in Context (CWiC) Framework is getting a number of updates for 2018. The free suite of resources, originally launched in 2016 by the Online Learning Consortium and Tyton Partners (with contributions from SRI International), offers information and guidelines for selecting and implementing digital courseware products.... Read More>

Digital learning provides new access to educational resources beyond the traditional brick and mortar institution.  A college degree is no longer the only type of credential that identifies educational achievement.  ... Read More>

Inside Higher Ed | September 19, 2018 - A suite of resources designed to help institutions make sense of the digital courseware market is getting a refresh this semester to strengthen its standards on accessibility and offer more road maps for institutions seeking technology solutions. Tyton Partners and the Online Learning Consortium... Read More>