“Innovation happens when we rethink conventions and apply alternative learning or technology to old problems.” – Shane Snow, How Soylent & Oculus Could Fix the Prison System “Innovation is the output of an extremely entrepreneurial culture.”– Wyatt Roy, Above All Human Innovation Read More >
Archives - February, 2016
Ever since the first few transistors flowed from Silicon Valley, a wave of entrepreneurial momentum has swept across the country. In 2014, I inadvertently stumbled into this momentum at Denver Startup Week (it’s now impossible to avoid if you’re downtown that week), and Read More >
It seems like only days ago that we announced at our fall conference in Orlando that the Online Learning Consortium had received a $2.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the adoption of digital courseware to support student Read More >
Are you as excited as we are about the OLC Innovate 2016 Keynote Speaker? Angie McArthur, co-author of COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE and speaker on intellectual diversity, recently answered a few questions related to her presentation. We think you’ll agree, you will want Read More >
Learn more in our Blended Learning Mastery Series: Research into Practice As online classes (and online education in general) have become more popular, people are asking the question: how effective is online learning in comparison to in-class learning? There have Read More >
Most mornings, I begin my day by reviewing various higher education news outlets to see what is happening in the field. Last Friday, I was stopped in my tracks when I read Paul Fain’s article, “The Faculty Role Online, Scrutinized” in Inside Higher Read More >
During my tenure at Northern Arizona University, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be part of the design and implementation team to move Personalized Learning, their competency-based initiative, forward. From idea to reality, it was a multi-stage, multi-faceted Read More >
I have been thinking about innovation for a while. What does innovation mean to you? How does “innovation” play into your world of work and learning? The word INNOVATE feels very much like a buzzword when it comes to learning. Read More >
The Online Learning Consortium and NACADA recently concluded the successful, three-part webinar series on topics related to student advising for the distance learner. With the changing higher education landscape, this timely webinar series was designed to support student advising professionals Read More >
On November 19, the SPS Distance Learning team attended the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Collaborate Chicago Conference, hosted at Rush University. The conference included several panels on subjects like regulation, learning analytics, and competency-based education, and breakout sessions that dug Read More >