Inspiring Innovation: Instructional Designers are Leading the Future of Digital Learning
Instructional designers have long been the unsung heroes of digital learning, often navigating the complexities of educational technology, curriculum design, and faculty training with quiet dedication. Instructional design superpowers were clearly on display during the pandemic and are continually being called upon as technologies like generative AI continue to transform society at a rapid pace.
Top Recommendations to Increase the Accessibility & Inclusiveness of Your Presentation
An interactive resource for exploring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for presenters
Regardless of the type of professional development or training you are leading, presenting within that context is a skill. We at the Online Learning Consortium view presenters as facilitators and, importantly, educators. Thus, just as is the case in other learning environments, we need to be intentional about our practices in order to ensure we are facilitating with our audience in mind. We’ve been working to collate the effective practices and strategies presenters across our various OLC professional development spaces leverage to this end. So without further ado, here are the 12 tips we see presenters utilize to create more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible presentation environments:
A Sea Change for Online Academic Leaders
New Book from the OLC Press Highlights Voices, Stories, and Experiences of Online Academic Leaders Navigating Higher Education’s Evolving Landscape. The only constant in higher education is change, especially recently. Since the onset of the pandemic, online academic leaders have been positioned at the center of this most recent transformation. A new book, From Grassroots to […]
Instructional designers + teaching faculty = powerful partnership
The classroom experience as we know it has changed. With the onset of social distancing and sudden transitions to remote instruction, the faculty workload may be quite overwhelming for some teaching faculty. These days it is not uncommon to hear the comforting proclamation, “We’re in this together”. As employees of higher education systems, we are […]
Does Organizational Structure Matter? Yes, But Not in a Traditional Way.
Last Fall, we wrote about why we thought the emerging organizational structures of online units across our universities and colleges are important to study. Leadership concept with red paper plane leading among white on blue background. Specifically, CORAL Collaborative founders and founding members, a now formalized personal learning network born from OLC Institute for Emerging […]