The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is reaching out to our global community of thought leaders, faculty, innovators, and practitioners to bring you insights from the field of online, blended, and digital learning. This week, Dr. Jessica Knott, OLC Institute faculty Read More >
I’m pleased to announce the publication of a free eBook, a collaborative effort between Routledge and the Online Learning Consortium. In the past five years, the Online Learning journal has undergone a name change (formerly the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Read More >
On May 4th, Michael Feldstein authored a post for the e-Literate blog that intertwined last month’s ASU-GSV convening and the lightning talks from the Empirical Educator Project (EEP) Summit. This news hit my inbox over the weekend by way of Read More >
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is reaching out to our global community of thought leaders, faculty, innovators and practitioners to bring you insights from the field of online, blended and digital learning. This week, Lori Kupczynski, OLC Institute faculty for Read More >
The arrival of March signals not only the welcome of spring, but also the first issue of the year for the Online Learning Journal (OLJ). Now in its 22nd year, OLJ is published quarterly as an open source, peer-reviewed journal. This Read More >
In Fall 2017, OLC launched the OLC Research Center for Digital Learning and Leadership in order to better serve the digital learning community as the go-to resource for empirical and evidence-based research, as well as practitioner-based resources. The Center’s resources Read More >
This week, Dr. Katie Novak and Tom Thibodeau, co-authors of “UDL in the Cloud” and OLC faculty for the workshop Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Principles to Online Courses to Increase Accessibility and Engagement, join us to discuss this Read More >
For OLC Innovate 2018’s opening keynote session we will be highlighting a speaker series we call Campfire Stories. Our featured speakers will each tell a personal story around the theme of failure and its importance–the freedom to fail, failing forward, Read More >
In recent years, education entities have seen a rise in complaints coming from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) specifically on the accessibility of web and digital materials. I recently heard of one advocate who has initiated almost 1,500 complaint letters into OCR. The momentum is not likely to decrease, even as the current administration shifts some funding away from these offices. The advocacy groups, and the attorneys, are still out there working to strengthen accessibility for their constituents.
In recent years, education entities have seen a rise in complaints coming from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) specifically on the accessibility of web and digital materials. I recently heard of one advocate who has initiated almost 1,500 complaint letters into OCR. The momentum is not likely to decrease, even as the current administration shifts some funding away from these offices. The advocacy groups, and the attorneys, are still out there working to strengthen accessibility for their constituents.