Archives - January, 2017

Why Faculty Still Don’t Want to Teach Online

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Robert Ubell, Vice Dean for Online Learning at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering

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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 >

Online Learning Journal Top 10 of 2016

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Peter Shea, PhD, Editor in Chief, Online Learning Journal, and Associate Provost and Associate Professor, SUNY Albany

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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 >

Giving Thanks

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Jill Buban, PhD, Sr. Director, Online Learning Consortium

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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 >

How to Write A Post That Appeals To All

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Jill Buban, PhD, Sr. Director, Online Learning Consortium

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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 >

A Little Online Learning Is a Good Thing

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Ellen Wagner, PhD, Chief Research Officer for the PAR Framework and VP for Research at Hobsons

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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 >

Is Student Success as Simple as Good Practices?

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Karen Vignare, PhD, KV Consulting

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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 >

Online Learning Journal (OLJ) Devotes Issue to Learning Analytics

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Anthony Picciano, Ph.D; OLC Board of Directors, Professor and Executive Officer for the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

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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 >