FOSTERING UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE ONLINE, BLENDED AND DIGITAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a global community of education and learning professionals, dedicated to providing resources to leaders, teachers, faculty, staff, and other learning professionals in higher education, K-12, and corporate organizations. OLC inspires innovation and quality through an extensive set of resources, including best-practice publications, quality benchmarking, leading-edge professional development, community-driven conferences, practitioner-based and empirical research, and expert guidance.
The Online Learning Consortium, Inc. is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization.
BENEFITS FOR OUR COMMUNITY
TOOLS & RESOURCES
OLC provides the opportunity to collaborate on and share groundbreaking research, knowledge, and effective practices with the goal of empowering our community members to continually improve the quality, affordability, and access to online learning and to support student and faculty success.
Quality Scorecard Suite
OLC offers a robust suite of Quality Scorecards which can be used to evaluate elements of quality within online courses and programs, providing guidance for individuals and institutions in achieving and demonstrating an overall level of quality to potential students and higher education accrediting bodies.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
The OLC Research Center for Digital Learning and Leadership is dedicated to transforming teaching and learning in the online learning landscape through the dissemination and sharing of research throughout the field. In collaboration with the OLC community, the Research Center seeks to further knowledge of the field, create collaborative networks among like-minded professionals who share similar knowledge bases, and to provide original, evidence-based, and theoretical–based research.
Online Learning, the OLC Journal
Online Learning is OLC’s open, peer-reviewed professional journal and providing practitioners with knowledge about the very best research in online learning.
OLC Insights, our blog
Inspiring members of the online learning field with new ideas, innovative perspectives, world lessons, and personal stories.
As a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization, all proceeds from OLC products, services and conferences serve to fund the development and expenses of the organization.