Known for her love of storytelling, play and all things gameful, Madeline (Maddie) Shellgren thrives on facilitating and designing meaningful ways for people to connect, learn, and grow together. This makes her an inspired choice as OLC’s new Director, Online Read More >
The recent events across our country have been devastating. I am personally saddened and disappointed that there are those in our country that must face such deep injustices. The killing of George Floyd and those who have come before him Read More >
This is the third post in a short series focused on topics addressing key issues for transitioning from emergency remote teaching to continuing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis while providing high-quality online learning. There are many challenges – and Read More >
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 Read More >
This is the second post in a short series focused on topics addressing key issues for transitioning from emergency remote teaching to continuing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis while providing high-quality online learning. There are many challenges – and Read More >
Instructional design is about relating and empowering faculty in brief, encouraging and even humorous segments. There was a lot of chatter on higher education social media groups, secondary education blogs, and e-learning administrator listervs on how to best help faculty Read More >
The pandemic has disrupted our educational realities, thrusting the academy into remote workspaces with very little notice or clarity about future mode of delivery. How might we as educators best leverage this moment in time as a catalyst to permanently Read More >
This is the first in a short series focused on topics addressing key issues for transitioning from emergency remote teaching to continuing to respond to the COVID-19 crisis while providing high-quality online learning. There are many challenges – and opportunities Read More >
Last Fall, we wrote about why we thought the emerging organizational structures of online units across our universities and colleges are important to study. Specifically, CORAL Collaborative founders and founding members, a now formalized personal learning network born from OLC Institute Read More >
Early in my design career I was introduced to the idea of how innovation, namely in technology, is adopted through Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation model. This model shows how new ideas travel through individuals and society based on communication Read More >