PROJECT OVERVIEW The mental health landscape in higher education has reached a critical juncture, with an increasing number of students experiencing severe psychological issues. Recent studies have found that over 60% of college students meet the criteria for at least Read More >
ABOUT THE REPORT A Joint Publication of the Online Learning Consortium, WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, and Complete College America The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) presents an unprecedented opportunity for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to lead in Read More >
ABOUT THE REPORT As the higher education landscape undergoes rapid transformation, educators continue to seek best practices for creating quality digital, blended, and online learning experiences. However, disparate definitions of quality and differing instructor and student preferences complicate this work. Read More >
ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP NETWORK SYMPOSIUM Leadership has been foundational to OLC initiatives, workshops, and events since the founding of the Sloan Consortium in 1992. As interest in leadership strategy and community-building has grown over the intervening years, we have been Read More >
Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Change: Realizing the Promise of Professional Learning Created By: Achieving the Dream (ATD) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere Research shows that professional learning (often called “faculty development”) has the Read More >
OLC Blended Learning Symposium – 2022 In November 2002, at the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, a small group of higher education professionals were discussing a new phenomenon: faculty were mixing face-to-face and online learning instructional techniques in their courses. Read More >
Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A Playbook for Centering Equity, Digital Learning, and Continuous Improvement Created By: Achieving the Dream (ATD), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and Online Learning Consortium (OLC) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere This playbook Read More >
The OLC Research Center and HP Present Research on Workforce Skills Communication Research Brief Presents major findings, including the existence of a workforce skills communication gap that prevents students from effectively communicating in-demand workforce skills they have developed to potential employers. Read More >
At-Home STEM Lab Kits in Higher Education Lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and recommendations for future success Created By: Carolina Distance Learning in partnership with Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Download the Brief Here This brief presents original research that Read More >
An Inclusive Action Plan for Academic Leaders and Instructional Support Staff Created By: Every Learner Everywhere in partnership with Online Learning Consortium (OLC) & WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) Supporting Online Adjunct Faculty Across Institutional Roles: An Inclusive Action Plan Read More >