Online Learning Consortium https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/ Advancing Digital Learning Leadership Everywhere Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OLC_Favicon-150x150.png Online Learning Consortium https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/ 32 32 Teaching with AI²: Artificial Intelligence for Accessibility and Inclusion https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/teaching-with-ai2/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:57:24 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18253 The accessibility conversation in higher ed is oftentimes framed around compliance and avoiding legal trouble. However, inclusive design is about so much more than checking boxes. It’s about acknowledging the diversity of our students’ lived experiences and creating conditions where everyone can thrive. The truth is, most educators care deeply about equity. But let’s be […]

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]]> Breaking Down Virtual Walls: How Remote Colleges Can Dismantle Digital Silos https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/breaking-down-virtual-walls/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:43:17 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18246 Remote colleges may have traded traditional breakroom chats for Slack threads, but that doesn’t mean silos are a thing of the past. Without watercooler conversations and impromptu gatherings, departments can drift further apart than ever before. The technology meant to connect us can deepen these divides when left unchecked. Senge (2006) explains that silos form […]

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]]> Constellations of Change: Navigating Identity and Innovation at the 2025 Instructional Design Summit https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/ac25-id-summit/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:22:38 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18240 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 […]

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]]> Beyond the Take-Home Essay: How AI is Reshaping Assessment in Digital Learning https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/beyond-the-take-home-essay/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:19:13 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18231 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, […]

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]]> OLC Volunteer Spotlight: A Conversation with Allison Rief https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/volunteer-spotlight-allison-rief/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:01:33 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18124 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 […]

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]]> AI in Education: Teaching Transformation, Educator Skill Development, Ethical Considerations https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/ai-in-education/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:52:07 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18113 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, […]

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]]> A Primer on the Evolving Landscape of Digital Learning Modalities https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/digital-learning-modalities/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:21:59 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=18017 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 […]

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]]> June 2025 Snap Survey Results: ID-Related Professional Upskilling https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/june25-snap-survey/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:29:26 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=17946 The Online Learning Consortium launched its monthly Snap Surveys in May 2025 as part of the OLC Today newsletter. These brief surveys aim to gather quick feedback on timely topics relevant to our member community. The results are intended to spark ideas, generate research questions, and inspire new projects. The June Snap Survey was distributed […]

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]]> From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: A Scalable Model for Course Development https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/07/bottlenecks-to-breakthroughs/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:01:21 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=17937 “My course isn’t going to be ready in time…can I get a few more days?” We heard this more often than we’d like from participants in our instructor-led course development Seminar. Despite our best efforts—weekly meetings with instructional designers, hands-on support from educational media consultants, and a well-designed online resource hub—many instructors struggled to finish […]

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]]> AI with a Pedagogical Purpose: Meet OLC’s Course Review Assistant GPT https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/06/course-review-assistant-gpt/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:19:28 +0000 https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/?p=17879 Introduction As part of our continued commitment to supporting quality and innovation in digital learning, we’re pleased to introduce a new companion to the OLC Course Review Scorecard: the Course Review Assistant GPT. This isn’t just a technical tool or a novelty in the AI space. It’s a thoughtful response to a question we’ve been […]

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