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Insights, Information, Tip & Tricks to help you make the most of OLC Innovate 2020

  • Guest Blog Post: Reimagining assessment online - THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT BY D2L If you think about it, what really drives the learning process is assessment. Learners need feedback about whether they are learning the intended skills and content knowledge or not. Instructors need to know ...read more
  • What is the Responsibility of a Leader in Online Learning? - This is the fourth in a series of blog posts entitled: Leadership in Online Learning. Each post has built toward an upcoming presentation at OLC Innovate 2020. Join me for the Present and Reflect Session entitled: Online Learning Leadership and ...read more
  • Guest Blog Post: What Just Happened? And What Comes Next? - THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT BY GOREACT We’re all concerned with how to make the transition from emergency remote teaching to high-quality online education? It’s the elephant in the room. And there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Everyone talks about these times ...read more
  • Community Colleges - Building Student Success Online learning, social justice, and building bridges - When we meet for the OLC Community College Summit next week there will be significant information sharing, stimulation of ideas, and critiques of processes to review.  In grand fashion, we will engage, submerge, rejuvenate, and emerge, renewed, and ready. We ...read more
  • What Equity & Inclusion Means to the E&I OLC Innovate 2020 Planning Committee - Look for those of us with the Equity & Inclusion Advocate graphic as our virtual background while attending OLC Virtual Innovate 2020.   As we approach OLC Virtual Innovate 2020 June 15 - 26, now just a short week away, the Equity ...read more
  • video chat advanced online learning certificate Reframing Engagement: A Virtual Approach to Community & Care - When it comes to opportunity and engagement, there’s much more than meets the eye for attendees of OLC Innovate, and though upended and virtualized, this year need not be any different. While we will be spending more time on Zoom ...read more
  • Virtual Fist-bumps: OLC Innovate Unlimited Group Package - The fist bump is a gesture of friendship and approval, seemingly made popular by the Millenial generation, the age group that reached adulthood at the beginning of the 21st century. Interestingly, though, the knuckle exchange predates that group by a ...read more
  • Community College Student Working Online at Laptop Attendees Agree: OLC Innovate is the {Virtual} Place to Be! - Participating in OLC Innovate from a home or office laptop seems like a no brainer when traveling isn’t possible, but don’t take my word for it, read on to hear what attendees had to say about virtual attendance. Not surprisingly, our ...read more
  • Flocking to the Community College Summit - I am a confessed OLC conference junkie. I admitted this in a previous blog post. I love everything about them: the sights, the sounds, the smells, and the feels that come when birds of a feather flock together. A mindful ...read more
  • Maha Bali Turning Points Leading Up to My OLC Innovate keynote - The OLC Innovate Conference (previously named et4online) is embedded in two stories that were turning points in my career, both of them virtual experiences. And so it seemed serendipitous that the year OLC Innovate goes fully online, that I would ...read more
  • Affordable Learning Solutions We invite you to join us for the 4th Annual HBCU Affordable Learning Summit! - Date: June 15-24 2020 Location: Zoom Virtual Platform All 105 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States are invited to join us and learn from so many brilliant minds at the HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) Summit, ...read more
  • Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene: Open Pedagogy Podcast - In the first episode since the world went into isolation, Jonathan Lashley (@lashleyed) and Angela Gunder (@angelagunder) join Terry Greene (@greeneterry) to discuss how things have changed for them, especially in the context of the postponed OLC Innovate conference. “At ...read more
  • OLC Innovate 2020: Reimagining New Opportunities for Networking – Online! - In recent weeks, our community has seen countless opportunities for engagement and collaboration cancelled or postponed.  Not wanting to lose the chance for countless educators to reflect, share, and engage, the OLC made the decision to run OLC Innovate 2020 ...read more
  • Special Announcement: OLC Innovate 2020 Moves to Virtual Conference - Special Announcement: As previously shared with our community, OLC and MERLOT continue to monitor the evolving factors related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, particularly with regard to our OLC Innovate 2020 conference (presented in partnership with MERLOT). Among recent developments, gatherings exceeding ...read more
  • Important OLC Innovate 2020 Update - Due to circumstances related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have made the difficult decision to postpone OLC Innovate 2020, originally scheduled for March 31 - April 3, in Chicago. We have been working with the Sheraton Grand Chicago to finalize ...read more
  • Lecturer Raquel Lopez Assisting Students Leadership and Student Workers: We Learn From Each Other - This is the third in a series of blog posts entitled: Leadership in Online Learning. Each post will build toward an upcoming presentation at OLC Innovate 2020 in Chicago, IL. Join me for the Present and Reflect Session entitled: Online ...read more
  • OLC Live! Gets the 2020 #OLCInnovate Action Started Early! - You don’t have to be in Chicago to join this year’s conversations: Terry Greene (@greeneterry) and Jonathan Lashley (@lashleyed) are bringing the show to you with OLC Live! During the conference, you’ll be able to join us on VoiceEd Radio ...read more
  • Leading Change to Propel Digital Learning Projects: Conversations are Key - The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is reaching out to our global community of thought leaders and practitioners to bring you insights from the field of online, blended, and digital learning. This week, Dr. Amanda E. Major, OLC Institute faculty, OLC ...read more
  • video chat advanced online learning certificate Keeping the Humanity in Online Learning: Support Systems Are Not Just Technological - This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled: Leadership in Online Learning. Each post will build toward an upcoming presentation at OLC Innovate 2020 in Chicago, IL. Join me for the Present and Reflect Session entitled: Online ...read more
  • 1-On-1 Conference Presentation Coaching The Value of Coaching through Presenter Services - One of the best ways to improve upon a skill is to work with a coach who can offer feedback and guidance that is tailored specifically to your needs. OLC now offers this as a free service to all conference ...read more
  • Conference Speaker Making the Most of the Moments you Have as a Presenter - Whether you are new to presenting at conferences or a seasoned veteran, you can always improve your skills and possibly lessen your anxieties. And these days, conferences have all kinds of presentation formats to choose from and attend. What are ...read more
  • Speed Networking Lounge Lawn Game Tourney - As any first-time conference attendee can attest to, it can be awkward and downright scary to strike up a conversation with other attendees, especially if you’ve traveled alone to the conference.  In theory, we all come to conferences to network ...read more
  • Leadership Comes from Everywhere, Not Just the Top - This is the first in a series of blog posts entitled: Leadership in Online Learning. Each post will build toward an upcoming presentation at OLC Innovate 2020 in Chicago, IL. Join me for the Present and Reflect Session entitled: Online ...read more
  • The Threat to Academic Integrity  - THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT The aspiration to ensure academic integrity is nothing new. It is the foundation of good academic work and the underpinning of the university system. If degrees cannot be trusted, they have no value. A quick ...read more
  • Keegan - Innovate 2017 You’re Invited: Join us for OLC Innovate 2020 - OLC Innovate 2020, OLC's annual conference focused on innovations in research, practice, leadership, and technologies in online and digital learning, takes place March 31-April 3, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. We wanted to personally invite you to attend Innovate 2020. OLC ...read more
  • OLC Innovate Attendees Conference Engagement: A “You Do You” Approach for 2020 - When it comes to opportunity and engagement, there’s much more than meets the eye for attendees of OLC Innovate. For many years, I took a rather mindless approach to “maximizing” my investment at OLC conferences (and any/all conferences for that ...read more

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