Constellations of Change: Navigating Identity and Innovation at the 2025 Instructional Design Summit
Instructional Designers in the OLC community, we see you and know you’re at the heart of so much change in your environments. Let’s pause to reflect: What does it mean to be an instructional designer in an era of rapid change and accelerating technology? At the 2025 Instructional Design Summit during OLC Accelerate, we’re convening […]
Beyond the Take-Home Essay: How AI is Reshaping Assessment in Digital Learning
We’re living through a watershed moment in education. As AI tools become as common as calculators once were, educators are grappling with a fundamental question: How do we assess learning when students can generate polished essays, code, and presentations with a few keystrokes? The answer isn’t to ban AI or pretend it doesn’t exist. Instead, […]
OLC Volunteer Spotlight: A Conversation with Allison Rief
An Educator’s Evolution: From the Classroom to Leadership Allison (Ali) Rief has dedicated her career to education, beginning in a pre-K classroom in South Los Angeles and now serving as a higher education leader. A National Board Certified Early Childhood Educator and former Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year, Ali has spent the past […]
AI in Education: Teaching Transformation, Educator Skill Development, Ethical Considerations
An EvolvEX Summit Panel Discussion Experience and Reflections The EvolvEX Summit, hosted by the University of Economics – Varna, brought together global experts to explore AI-driven transformation across industries, with a particular focus on education. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the panel titled “AI in Education: Teaching Transformation, Educator Skill Development, […]
A Primer on the Evolving Landscape of Digital Learning Modalities
In the world of digital education, the vocabulary we use to describe how learning happens has expanded and shifted dramatically over the past decades. Terms like online learning, hybrid learning, asynchronous and synchronous learning, remote learning, HyFlex, and more have become common, yet their meanings can overlap or evolve with technological advances and changing educational […]