NSA Startalk Resources
Innovative Digital Learning for Critical Language Education The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), with funding from the National Security Agency’s STARTALK program, has developed innovative, free digital learning experiences to support critical language education. These programs provide engaging, research-based resources for educators and students, fostering interest in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Russian. Whether through interactive […]
The OLC Research Center and HP Present Research on Workforce Skills Communication
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether institutions are using workforce trends to align learning outcomes and help students communicate their level of workplace skill proficiencies to potential employers. Data was collected from 18 academic leaders, program directors, and faculty at public and private institutions, including two-year technical and community colleges, four-year […]
Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Change: Realizing the Promise of Professional Learning
About the Report Created By: Achieving the Dream (ATD) and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere Research shows that professional learning (often called “faculty development”) has the potential to transform teaching and advance equity, learning and student success. Yet notable gaps in practice undercut its impact. This report, Teaching, Learning, […]
2022 OLC Blended Learning Symposium Report
About the Report In November 2002, at the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, a small group of higher education professionals were discussing a new phenomenon: faculty were mixing face-to-face and online learning instructional techniques in their courses. This new approach to teaching and learning was distinct from both fully F2F and online learning. Faculty […]
International Report: Neuromyths and Evidence-Based Practices in Higher Education
About the Report The purpose of this international, non-experimental study was threefold. First, this study examined the awareness of neuromyths and general knowledge about the brain in higher education among instructors, instructional designers, and administrators who work with professional development (referred to as administrators) in two- and four- year institutions of higher education (IHE) across […]