Attend the OLC Innovate 2025 Conference

APRIL 2-4, 2025

OLC Innovate, a joint conference presented by OLC and MERLOT, provides a path for innovators of all experience levels and backgrounds to share best practices, test new ideas, and collaborate on driving forward online, digital, and blended learning.

We will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Innovate conference April 2-4, 2025. Our theme for Innovate 2025 is “The Rhythm of Innovation: Hitting the High Notes in Digital Education.”

Join us as we challenge our teaching and learning paradigms, reimagine the learning experience, and ideate on how disruptions in education today will shape the innovative classroom of tomorrow.

PROGRAM

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Multiple Pathways to Learn

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is committed to creating equitable spaces where academics, practitioners, students, and staff can work together across their unique experiences to build truly inclusive communities and learning environments.

Pre-Conference Master Classes

Get impactful strategies you can immediately apply to your work in these hands-on, experiential workshops.

Summits

Take a deep dive into critical topics with thought leaders in digital, online, and blended education. Our AI, HBCU, and Instructional Design Summits are included as part of the regular conference program through the Conference Pass.

Unique Session Formats

Expect to be actively involved in sessions at OLC Innovate. From “Conversation, Not Presentation” to “Design Sprints,” presentations will encourage deep thinking and engagement around relevant topics.

ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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Find Your Community

Get more out of your experience by forming meaningful connections and sprouting new collective ideas with the best and brightest in our field.

Field Guide Program

Make connections and navigate the conference with other attendees.

Engagement Hub

Connect with other attendees through lightweight, collaborative activities.

Interested in leading an Engagement Session?

Engagement activities are an important part of our programming at OLC Innovate. Have a great idea for a fun and interactive session? Submit your proposal to lead an Engagement session at the conference. Call for Proposals and Engagement Proposals will open August 14!