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- February 25, 2025
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This virtual session will provide you with detailed guidance on strategies and techniques that can help you craft a successful presentation. By attending the live offering of the webinar, you will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters and share any insights or lessons learned from your own...
- February 27, 2025
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This webinar is part of the OLC Accelerate 2024 Best-in-Track webinar series! In 2023, a large university’s learning and teaching center within the engineering department began experimenting with large language models (LLMs) for various instructional design tasks. By early 2024, the department embarked on a university-wide challenge, securing support to...
- March 4, 2025
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This webinar is part of the OLC Accelerate 2024 Best-in-Track webinar series! Since 2022, legislative attacks on the LGBTQ+ community have more than doubled, with laws introduced in at least 47 states targeting queer and transgender individuals, particularly in education. These measures, such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” laws and...
- March 6, 2025
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This webinar, co-hosted by Josh Herron and Katie Schuster of OLC and Matt Vick and Jason Beier of University of Wisconsin, will highlight OLC’s premier leadership development program designed for new and experienced professionals in the field of digital and online learning. The session will provide an overview of the...
- March 18, 2025
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This webinar is part of the OLC Accelerate 2024 Best-in-Track webinar series! Discover the power of generative AI personas in this webinar designed to improve communication, build empathy, and solve challenges in academic and administrative settings. You’ll master a simple three-step process to create realistic, data-driven personas that are both...
- April 10, 2025
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Join us for an insightful webinar that delves into Complete College America’s white paper, Complete College, America: Harnessing the Power of Higher Education to Renew American Democracy. This session will explore actionable strategies for colleges and universities to prepare students for active, informed participation in civic life. We’ll discuss how...
- April 15, 2025
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Are you ready to elevate your professional expertise in instructional design? Join us for an informative webinar that introduces the Instructional Design Professional (IDP) Certification—a credential designed to showcase your skills and commitment to excellence in creating impactful learning experiences. In this session, you will learn: The advantages of earning...
- July 15, 2025
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Are you ready to elevate your professional expertise in instructional design? Join us for an informative webinar that introduces the Instructional Design Professional (IDP) Certification—a credential designed to showcase your skills and commitment to excellence in creating impactful learning experiences. In this session, you will learn: The advantages of earning...
- September 23, 2025
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- 2:30 pm (ET)
Are you ready to elevate your professional expertise in instructional design? Join us for an informative webinar that introduces the Instructional Design Professional (IDP) Certification—a credential designed to showcase your skills and commitment to excellence in creating impactful learning experiences. In this session, you will learn: The advantages of earning...
- May 16, 2023
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Proving that quality exists within online education programs can be a daunting and complex task. Typically, metrics such as course completion, student logins, survey responses, and internal reviews are used to demonstrate engagement and quality outcomes. However, these instruments lack the authority of a rigorous program review by an outside...
- May 11, 2023
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In this webinar, we will explore the potential of augmented and virtual environments—sometimes known collectively as the metaverse—within the context of online, blended, and digital learning. Specifically, we’ll consider: What does a virtual campus offer in terms of community building, collaboration, and a sense of belonging, beyond what is available...
- March 15, 2023
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Evidence-based instructional strategies provide effective frameworks for designing both in-person and distance learning experiences that effectively achieve course learning outcomes. Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning (FTSL) is an evidence-based instructional strategy originally developed for in-person courses that describes six kinds of learning goals which exist in interwoven domains. When learning...
- March 1, 2023
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Although first-generation students—those first in their families to pursue higher education—comprise a sizable portion of gateway (or general education) course enrollment, little, if any, attention has been given to the pedagogical approaches that might be used to meet the needs of this diverse student population (Baldwin et al., 2021). This...
- February 22, 2023
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This session will provide insights into mentoring for faculty and students in online education programs, or for those considering a more traditional mentoring program delivered predominantly online. The presenters will discuss a variety of faculty and student mentoring programs for higher education, along with relevant best practices and examples of...
- February 15, 2023
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A frequent sentiment that is often heard from instructors of online courses is a general sense of dissatisfaction with traditional discussion board activities. Many report how students are often reluctant to engage in meaningful discourse or how interactions tend toward superficiality and sound something like, “Hello, Rob. I agree with...
- February 1, 2023
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While the success of digital games in education continues to validate the improvement to motivation, engagement and social influence (Groening & Binnewies, 2019; Lopez & Tucker, 2019), the impact for asynchronous adult education remains ambiguous. In a substantial course redesign, we attempted to address notable aspects of gamification within a...
Virtual | April 1-3, 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.