OLC Leadership Network Event - Part 2: Post-COVID Online Futures: Clues From CHLOE 6
Concurrent Session 3

Brief Abstract
Managing the COVID emergency is the mightiest distraction higher education leaders have ever faced. Short-term tactical needs are so novel and pressing that long-term strategic planning- always hard to focus on but vital for institutional health- seems impossibly abstract and low priority. Early data from the sixth CHLOE (Changing Landscape of Online Education) survey, an annual study from Quality Matters and Eduventures, delves into the messy realities online learning leaders face in 2021. In this panel, educational leaders will reflect on the design of the CHLOE 6 survey, seeking to both follow trends from prior surveys and illuminate pandemic-specific developments, and distill what early analysis of the results reveals about directions of travel for online learning in the 2020s.
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Extended Abstract
Managing the COVID emergency is the mightiest distraction higher education leaders have ever faced. Short-term tactical needs are so novel and pressing that long-term strategic planning- always hard to focus on but vital for institutional health- seems impossibly abstract and low priority.
Institutional leaders are caught between holding their breath until normality returns, if it does, and anticipating (or inventing) new student experience-business model equations that can thrive in what may be a post-COVID future that looks very different from the 2010s.
Early data from the sixth CHLOE (Changing Landscape of Online Education) survey, an annual study from Quality Matters and Eduventures, delves into the messy realities online learning leaders face in 2021. The survey covers questions such as:
- On which technology types are online leaders placing bets?
- Did fully online degree program, established pre-pandemic, see enrollment rise or fall in 2020?
- To what extent are institutions rolling out enterprise online course development and student support arrangements?
- Did 2020 convince more schools to lower online program prices?
- Did more schools turn to online program management (OPM) companies for help?
- How has the pandemic affected the internal standing of the Chief Online Officer?
Richard Garrett, Chief Research Officer at Eduventures will be joined by Dr. Sasha Thackaberry, VP Online & Continuing Education, Louisiana State University and Dr. Eric Fredericksen, Associate VP for Online Learning, University of Rochester, both members of the CHLOE Advisory Panel, who will contribute their current strategic thinking, adding local depth to CHLOE's breadth.
The panelists will reflect on the design of the CHLOE 6 survey, seeking to both follow trends from prior surveys and illuminate pandemic-specific developments, and distill what early analysis of the results reveals about directions of travel for online learning in the 2020s.
This panel serves as the second session of three sessions at OLC’s spring leadership network event, where we bring together digital leaders from academics, non-profits, and the private sector to discuss digital education strategy in times of great change. This session will focus on futurecasting the positioning and role of online education in supporting access to education, and is open to both established and emerging leaders attending the conference.
Digital leaders are guiding initiatives at traditional academic institutions and non-profits, attempting to maintain vision through crises, developing new partnerships and approaches within the private sector, and working to establish policies and regulations within government. We see ever increasing demand for cross-sector collaborations led by digital leaders across an increasingly diverse educational landscape.
Join us at this half-day event for featured presentations and small group discussions on opportunities for digital leaders, both established and emerging, to create new pathways to student success amidst the rapidly-changing higher education landscape.
The Leadership Network Event option is included in your OLC Innovate Virtual Conference 2021 registration fee. There is no additional registration fee to participate in the event. Learn more about this session and all of the sessions at the Leadership Network Event page.