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OLC Insider Blog 2019

OLC Conference Insider Blog

Insights, Information, Tip & Tricks to help you make the most of OLC Accelerate 2019

  • OLC Accelerate 2019: Wiley Fellows Discuss Experiences and Insights - SOURCE: Wiley Education Services Blog As online learning continues to evolve, it is important that university faculty and administrators adapt with it. At the 2019 OLC Accelerate Conference in Orlando, FL in November, Wiley Education Services discussed trending topics and themes with Kathy ...read more
  • NovoEd Shares “Confessions from the 2019 OLC Accelerate Conference” - "It’s not every day you get to attend a week-long birthday party for a 25-year-old," NovoEd's Annie McGeady shares. "Especially one attended by more than 1700 guests from around the world ranging from newcomers to devotees." The 25th annual OLC ...read more
  • OLC ACCELERATE Attend Conference Virtually Mediasite Keeps Conversations from OLC Accelerate 2019 Conference Alive with Dynamic Video - OLC Accelerate 2019 is over, but thanks to the power of video the conversations that took place there are still going strong. Online Learning Consortium (OLC) selected Mediasite to be the national webcasting partner for the event in Orlando, Florida ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate Exhibit Hall #WeAreOLC: Tell About It - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • How Online Proctoring Data Delivers Tangible Results and Affects Academic Decisions - THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Are your students cheating? The short answer is, yes, a minority of students do attempt to cheat on exams if given the opportunity. As academics, you take pride in your craft, and you care about ...read more
  • TTK 21 #WeAreOLC: OLC Opened Many Doors - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: BOLC (Before OLC) and AOLC (After OLC) - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: Innovation Happens One Idea at a Time - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • Learner Services and Support: Keep Calm, Culture On! - This is the next post of a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about at ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate Exhibit Hall #WeAreOLC: The Conference as a Story -   With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative ...read more
  • Welcome to OLC Accelerate 2018 - Educational Technology Conference #WeAreOLC: How to find your story with OLC - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • Accelerate Field Guide Program Friends and Food with the Field Guides - We’re less than one month away from the excitement of OLC Accelerate 2019. Your OLC Accelerate Field Guide team has been hard at work preparing a ton of fun and exciting events for the upcoming conference. At our orientation session ...read more
  • Cheerful young man and woman cooperating for finding solutions while working together online as co-workers in a modern collaborative office space Come Join Us for Our Research-oriented Activities at OLC Accelerate! - Welcome to Part 2 of our research-focused OLC Accelerate 2019 blog (see our earlier one, Research is for Everyone, when you have a moment if you missed it).  We are excited to share some of the new research focused opportunities ...read more
  • Beyond the promise…. AI in Higher Education - This is the next post of a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about ...read more
  • Attend OLC Innovate - Virtual Hub Limitless Connections: Getting the Best of OLC Accelerate as an Online Attendee - Whether or not you’ve been to OLC Accelerate in Orlando in the past, missing the in conference experience can lead to serious FOMO (“fear of missing out”).  Whether your flight was canceled or travel funds frozen, no matter what the ...read more
  • What’s A Talk-about? - OLC Accelerate 2019 is almost here, and this year’s Accelerate conference is loaded with well-curated sessions, topic tracks aligned to current trends in the field, and opportunities to engage and connect with colleagues from institutions of all sizes and locations. ...read more
  • What’s all the Buzz about Discovery Sessions, Anyway?! - Talk about innovative pedagogical uses of technology--Discovery Sessions at OLC conferences, such as the upcoming OLC Accelerate in Orlando, Florida--epitomize the best of pedagogy, technology, and collaboration, and I would even suggest, are the best format for allowing for innovation ...read more
  • Professional Development and Support…A Snapshot - This is the next post of a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about ...read more
  • Community College Completion Paradox Webinar Community College Conversations at OLC Accelerate - Calling all Community College Colleagues! The Online Learning Consortium Accelerate Conference (November 19-22, 2019, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, Lake Buena Vista, Florida) has so much to offer practitioners from our segment of higher education. Our particular concerns for ...read more
  • Online Teaching & Learning Research #WeAreOLC: Phenomenological Research with Storytelling - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • Innovating Before It Was Cool - This is the next of a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about at ...read more
  • What Can End-of-Course Surveys Do For You? - This is the next post of a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: Twenty Years of Solitude - Stranger in a Strange Land My first encounter with Sloan-C was a summer symposium in the early 90’s at the University of Illinois, Champaign. Joel Hartman told me that it would be an interesting experience and indeed it was. What ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: How OLC Impacted Beth Rubin’s Professional Journey - "Early in my career as a researcher & administrator of online learning , I was attending a giant session at OLC Accelerate (then called the Sloan-C annual conference) on the Community of Inquiry, which was coming up on a 10-year ...read more
  • What’s that Smell? Student Engagement - This is the next in a series of Trends & Perspectives blog posts. The Track Chairs will reflect on each of this years’ presentation tracks, analyze and discuss some of the trends that you can expect to hear about at ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: Jane Moore Shares How She Has Learned and Grown with OLC - "I first attended an OLC conference in Orlando, probably in 2002 or 2003. I was one of the few people in my university that was teaching anything online. I had a blended class and one online workshop. Without any in-house ...read more
  • OLC INNOVATE 2017 PRESENTATION David Kampmann OLC Accelerate 2019: An Early Look at This Year’s Trends and Perspectives - To help get you excited about this year’s 25th anniversary OLC Accelerate conference, we are offering a series of blog posts with a focus on each of the presentation tracks. Now, and for the next six weeks, the Track Chairs will ...read more
  • TTK 21 OLC Accelerate 2019: Collaboration with a Mission - This year, the Field Guides, Technology Test Kitchen (TTK), and Speed Networking Lounge are teaming up to provide you with an intergalactic mission. Should you choose to accept this mission, you will get to experience three interactive and engaging spaces ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: UMass Lowell Chancellor reflects on the OLC’s 25th anniversary - UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney reflects on the OLC’s 25th anniversary and the important role the Consortium has played in UMass Lowell’s growth and success in online education.
  • Research is for Everyone! - Have you ever been looking for Best Practice Guides, lessons learned, or helpful takeaways online, at conference sessions, and in other areas of professional development? You probably chose what to use or attend based on how well the resources address ...read more
  • Accelerate 2018 - Sessions & Workshops Sneak Peak: An Inside Look at Wednesday’s Workshops at OLC Accelerate 2019 - Five months ago when asked if we were willing to serve as co-chairs to the OLC Accelerate 2019 Workshop Sub-committee, we both wholeheartedly agreed. The opportunity to shape the future? And to bring in some of the best presenters and ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: OLC Transformed my Professional Career! - I learned of OLC 5 years ago when I enrolled in the Online Teaching Certificate. This organization has completely transformed my professional career! I have been an instructional designer for the last two years and have found a career I ...read more
  • Melissa Vito to Keynote the OLC IDEA Leadership in Digital Learning Luncheon at OLC Accelerate 2019 - The OLC IDEA Leadership in Digital Learning Luncheon Committee is proud to announce the keynote speaker for the OLC IDEA Leadership in Digital Learning Luncheon. Dr. Melissa Vito is a lead, speaker, author, storyteller, and Chief Experience Officer for Vito ...read more
  • Accelerate Field Guide Program #WeAreOLC: Talk-abouts and Storytelling - While celebrating the 25th anniversary of our annual international fall conference and the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: What does it look like to be a part of OLC? - While celebrating the 25th anniversary of our annual international fall conference and the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and ...read more
  • TTK 11 #WeAreOLC: Connection and Collaboration - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • OLC Live Logo Final - RGB (1) #WeAreOLC: The Personal Learning Network and OLC Live - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • Anthony Picciano #WeAreOLC: The Sloan Consortium and OLC – The Early Years! - As we approach the 25th Anniversary of OLC’s Accelerate Conference, it is a good time to look back and consider how Sloan-C/OLC got its start. We can begin with the concept of digital learning which predates the Internet and the ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: Ryan Straight Reviews His Past 25 Years - Reposted from Ryan Straight's blog with his permission. How did you first get involved with the OLC? I first got involved because of the inimitable Angela Gunder, as is the case for so many, I’ve no doubt. I submitted an ...read more
  • OLC Insider Blog 2019 #WeAreOLC: Shared Memories - "Wow, It is wonderful to celebrate OLC’s 25th anniversary! I have been working with them (then Sloan-C) since 2003. I would submit our online classes to their quality review system to be listed on the website or get feedback for ...read more
  • #WeAreOLC: Forging Global Connections Through the Openness of Storytelling - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate Exhibit Hall OLC Accelerate 2019 Program Preview - Thoughts will soon turn to planning for the Fall term (if not there already). As program chairs for the 25th anniversary celebration OLC Accelerate, we hope that this conference is part of your plans. If you have attended or considered ...read more
  • Co-Chairs with Collaboration and Change on Our Minds – Introducing the 2019 Technology Test Kitchen Leads - Introducing Maddie Like many of us that work with the OLC, my engagement story starts with a single individual who felt OLC was a good fit and extended an invitation to participate. It was Spring 2017. We had just come ...read more
  • GAMING AND VIRTUAL REALITY #WeAreOLC: Narratives and Storytelling in Gaming - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. As ...read more
  • People Networking at EdTech Conference #WeAreOLC: Equity and Identity in Storytelling - With the idea of stories being a connecting element throughout all of our conference activities, we are creating a variety of opportunities for you to share your story and to hear the stories of others. We’re calling this initiative #WeAreOLC. As ...read more
  • How does IDEA support the storytelling theme of the OLC Accelerate conference? - In the past year, hundreds of us gathered at OLC Innovate 2019 and OLC Accelerate 2018 to share stories on how we might collectively create a more inclusive environment for individuals serving in and working towards leadership roles. OLC Inclusion, ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate 2018 Online Education Conference #WeAreOLC: The Power of Storytelling at Accelerate’s 25th Anniversary - Stories help us capture and share our past, create our future, support our teaching and learning, and build connections with one another. All of these qualities are an integral part of the OLC community, particularly as we celebrate our 25th ...read more
  • Attendees at an Online Learning Consortium Conference OLC Celebrates Diversity with the IDEA Leadership in Digital Learning Luncheon - You are cordially invited to a luncheon and networking event to help raise funds for the OLC Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advocacy (IDEA) Leadership in Digital Learning Scholarship fund, previously the OLC Women in Digital Learning Leadership Scholarship.  The OLC ...read more
  • Is Impostor Syndrome Keeping You from Submitting a Conference Proposal? - “I’m not “expert enough” in (fill in a topic).” “The work I am doing isn’t important or critical enough to share.” “What if someone attending my session knows more than me?” “Why would someone want to hear what I have ...read more
  • Virtual and Mixed Reality A Quick Guide to Gamifying Your OLC Accelerate Presentation - The OLC Accelerate conference is an event you don’t want to miss, especially with this year being the 25th Anniversary. If you’ve been following the blog posts and social media announcements, then you may have heard there is a new ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate Attendees What does OLC Accelerate’s 25th Anniversary mean to you? - The Online Learning Consortium celebrates the 25th anniversary of the OLC Accelerate conference this November, and it promises to be a spectacular event. A milestone of this magnitude couldn’t happen without you, our OLC community members. Each year, you take ...read more
  • OLC INNOVATE - Robbie Melton - Mixed Reality and Beyond: What’s on the Horizon for Your Campus Why the 25th Anniversary of OLC Accelerate is YOUR Opportunity to Present - OLC Accelerate 2019 Co-Chairs Sherri Restauri and Tracy Cosker share why you should submit a proposal to present at the 25th anniversary this fall. Why should I attend/present at OLC Accelerate? One of the best ways to share experiences, learn ...read more
  • Accelerate 2018 - Sessions & Workshops How to Prepare an Effective Proposal - OLC Accelerate 2019 Workshops Co-Chair Tawnya Means shares how to prepare your proposal to present at the 25th anniversary event this fall. You have a great idea or rock star practice that you would like to share with others, and ...read more
  • OLC Accelerate: Have you considered the Research Track for your proposal? - This is an exciting time for online learning and higher education. Traditional ways that we’ve thought about teaching and learning, and even online education itself, are being reshaped as digital transformation, online strategy, pedagogy, design, and student outcomes specific to ...read more

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