OLC Chief Strategy Officer Jennifer Mathes to Serve as Interim CEO NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (May 14, 2019) The Online Learning Consortium announced today that Kathleen Ives, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, has resigned. The Board of Directors has named Chief Strategy Officer Jennifer Mathes as interim CEO, effective immediately. Ives served in... Read More>

Education Dive | April 18, 2019 - As institutions move to tap the ripe market of remote adult learners, they are realizing their support services need to be available around the clock. With college enrollment mostly flat and the number of adult learners taking online classes expected to increase, it doesn't take... Read More>

The evolllution | April 8, 2019 - A group of advocates are calling for major changes to bring federal regulations up to speed with the 21-st century model of higher education. Despite changing student demographics and technological advancements, the American higher education regulatory infrastructure and related legislation continue to address only the... Read More>

Inside Higher Ed | March 6, 2019 - The higher ed learning professional conference industrial complex is in full swing. Among the ed tech, online and digital learning convenings that occur in the early part of 2019 are ELI, SXSW EDU, UPCEA and OLC Innovate. Later this year we will have the opportunity to travel to Educause, WCET, POD, OLC Accelerate or any... Read More>

EdScoop | March 4, 2019 - Despite a surge of regulations in the 1980s designed to prevent fraudulent use of financial aid funds for online courses, the Department of Education still struggles to balance consumer protections with a growing need for short-term and distance education to offer student aid, according to a... Read More>

Education Dive | February 27, 2019 -  Dive Brief: As regulators and industry representatives hash out a potential future for higher education accreditation, particularly rules governing online learning, three industry groups have put forward their own policy recommendations. Covering topics such as competency-based education (CBE), regular and substantive interaction and state authorization, the policy... Read More>

Inside Higher Ed | February 27, 2019 - Discussions of federal rules around digital learning and educational innovation are ongoing at the U.S. Department of Education. Some of those issues may end up requiring intervention from Congress. Three key digital learning organizations released today a set of policy briefs to guide these... Read More>

Briefs Authored by UPCEA, OLC, and WCET Cover Competency-Based Education, Financial Aid, Regular and Substantive Interaction, and State Authorization WASHINGTON, DC - February 27, 2019 - Today, three organizations in higher education—UPCEA, OLC and WCET—have issued a set of policy briefs relating to necessary changes to federal regulations affecting the professional,... Read More>

WCET | February 21, 2019 - A Sense of Urgency Many public colleges and universities have embraced the mission of increasing access to higher education by recruiting more diverse student populations. Unfortunately, institutions continue to see significant persistence and completion gaps for their low-income students, students of color, and first-generation students. In response... Read More>

InsideHigherEd | February 25, 2019 - Community colleges are realizing that addressing racial and income equity are the missing pieces to improving completion rates. And Achieving the Dream wants to help them eliminate that inequity. Colleges have been focused for more than a decade on accelerating the completion movement to increase graduation... Read More>