Earlier this week, Jeffrey R. Young and Tony Wan took to the EdSurge News blog to scribe a somewhat critical look at a new report developed by the Obama administration’s Office of Educational Technology. Slipped in just before the government Read More >
Archives - January, 2017
This essay is republished with permission from Inside Higher Ed. It is adapted from Robert Ubell’s book, Going Online: Reflections on Digital Education, now available for purchase through OLC. Robert Ubell is vice dean for online learning at New York University’s Tandon School Read More >
In our 20th year of publication, this year’s Online Learning Journal issues were our largest to date and covered a variety of topics pertinent to our field, including issues focused on learning analytics, OLC conferences, the 20th anniversary of OLJ, Read More >
IntroductionAt MSU Denver, we’re excited about the future of education, but we also know that culturally disruptive change will be necessary to realize the future students truly deserve. The modern demand (and subsequent supply) for online and virtual instruction means Read More >
The Online Learning Consortium team gives thanks to the record number of attendees and presenters, steering committee members, and volunteers who convened at OLC Accelerate last week in Orlando. Our OLC Accelerate Conference Chair, Phylise Banner, and Program Chairs, Laurie Read More >
Are you interested in blogging for the Online Learning Consortium? Here are some tips from guest blogger, Lucy Adams. You can submit your blog post here. So you’ve entered the blogging sphere. Or perhaps you’ve been here for a while. Read More >
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is reaching out to our global community of thought leaders, faculty, innovators and practitioners to bring you insights from the field of online, blended and digital learning. This week, we welcome a new instructor to Read More >
Did you ever wonder if 100 percent old-school, campus-based, face-to-face learning might be better for all students? Or that maybe online learning should only be available to certain kinds of students? Maybe online learning is actually slowing students down on Read More >
Well yes, but that probably seems obvious. As with everything in higher education, the research on best practices always needs more data to be generalizable. The recently published Learning Analytics Special Edition of the Online Learning Journal (OLJ) contains nine Read More >
Dr. Tony Picciano is an OLC Board Member, Professor and Executive Officer for the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), a member of the faculty in the Education Leadership Program Read More >