
Years ago when I was a faculty member at a community college in Illinois, I taught in a blended learning format. I don’t recall if we had a name for the modality, but I do know that I learned a Read More >
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Jennifer Mathes, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Online Learning Consortium
| No Comments | | Leave a commentYears ago when I was a faculty member at a community college in Illinois, I taught in a blended learning format. I don’t recall if we had a name for the modality, but I do know that I learned a Read More >
Dylan Barth, Ph.D., Director of Professional Learning, Online Learning Consortium
| No Comments | | Leave a commentPulling Back the Curtains: How the Pandemic Helped Instructional Designers Set the Stage for Today and the Future As part of our Accelerate conference, OLC recognizes presentations that emerge as outstanding with a Best-in-Track designation. Last year, for Accelerate 2021, Read More >
Madeline R. Shellgren (she/her/hers), Director of Community Strategy and Engagement, Online Learning Consortium
| No Comments | | Leave a commentDesign inspiration can come from a lot of places. For me, I get inspired by the things around me and life in general. As I sat with the design challenge of reimagining conference engagement, an important consideration was how space, Read More >
Madeline R. Shellgren (she/her/hers), Director of Community Strategy and Engagement, Online Learning Consortium
| No Comments | | Leave a commentForewarning: This blogpost is a story because I like to tell stories. Most of all, though, it is a thought piece anchored around a call to action to get involved and an invitation to play / re-imagine as we continue Read More >
Madeline R. Shellgren (she/her/hers), Director of Community Strategy and Engagement, Online Learning Consortium, Katie Fife Schuster (she/her/hers), Director of Global Events, Online Learning Consortium, Bill Krasner (he/him/his), Partnerships, PlayPosit
| No Comments | | Leave a commentAt the beginning of 2021, the Online Learning Consortium and PlayPosit entered into a new partnership for the purposes of collaboratively reimagining engagement. You can read more about our partnership here.
Madeline Shellgren (Director of Community Strategy and Engagement & IELOL Global Program Director, Online Learning Consortium), Dr. Angela Gunder (Chief Academic Officer, Online Learning Consortium)
| No Comments | | Leave a commentOLC’s Framework on Storying Digital Change Work is Recognized in United Nations Education Scientific And Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Database The OLC report, “Advancing Universal Access to Quality Digital Learning Through Global Coalitions and Narrative Practices”, is now featured in Read More >
Madeline Shellgren (Director of Community Strategy and Engagement & IELOL Global Program Director, Online Learning Consortium)
| No Comments | | Leave a commentSo what can we do now to advance universal access to quality digital learning? And how might the greater project of global coalition building support a collective intent to collaboratively design a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just future of online, blended, digital, and flexible learning?
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 Read More >
Madeline Shellgren (Director of Community Strategy and Engagement & IELOL Global Program Director, Online Learning Consortium) with contributions from Dr. Angela Gunder (Chief Academic Officer, Online Learning Consortium), Dr. Heather Farmakis (Chief Programs & Operations Officer, Texas International Education Consortium), Dr. Robert Abaidoo (Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Dr. John Serbe (Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Prof. Eric Appau Asante (Department of Educational Innovations & Director E-Learning Centre, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
| No Comments | | Leave a commentExcitingly, leaders from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC), and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have come together to bring the field the first of many IELOL Global Regional Colloquies.
Madeline R. Shellgren (she/her/hers), Director of Community Strategy and Engagement, OLC; Katie Fife Schuster (she/her/hers), Director of Global Events, OLC; Laura Siebers (she/her/hers), Account Director, PlayPosit
| No Comments | | Leave a commentAt the beginning of 2021, the Online Learning Consortium and PlayPosit entered into a new partnership for the purposes of collaboratively reimagining engagement. You can read more about our partnership here.