The Online Learning Consortium has announced a multi-year partnership with Instructure to collaborate on research projects and work together through Instructure s Canvas learning management system to enrich teacher training resources and expand access to equitable digital learning.
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The Online Learning Consortium is calling for applications to participate in a new cohort that will work collaboratively to identify challenges and opportunities in online and blended learning. The newly formed Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning Global Cohort (IELOL Global) began with a pilot last year and will now continue as a formal offering.
IELOL Global will select up to 50 participants to answer specific challenges around digital learning leadership across global and local contexts, including strategies and operations for ensuring equitable and inclusive access to education, according to a news announcement. The program comprises a three-month curriculum with both asynchronous and synchronous online components. Primarily goals include:
Online Learning Consortium Identifies Key Actions to Address Inequities in Higher Education
Improvements Needed in Student Support, Funding, and Operations, Based on Insights from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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The Online Learning Consortium (
OLC), a nonprofit community of education leaders and innovators dedicated to advancing digital teaching and learning, today announced key actions to address the opportunities and challenges in providing quality learning experiences for all students, based on a year of insights from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The pandemic that forced colleges to social distance and move to remote learning exacerbated the struggles many HBCUs have faced in trying to meet the broad needs of their students, said Angela Gunder, Chief Academic Officer of OLC. However, these challenges also brought an opportunity for leaders in education, business, government and other organizat
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BOSTON, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The higher education industry navigated many challenges over the last year, including the transition to online learning. As students, faculty and administrators reflect on the last year, the majority actually give pandemic learning a decent grade. In fact, more students gave pandemic learning an A grade, while more faculty and administrators gave it a B grade, according to the fourth and final installment of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey, a four-part series to better understand the needs of colleges during COVID-19.
Pandemic Era Report Card: Digital Learning Pulse Survey results show college students give decent grades for pandemic learning, are positive about online learning post-pandemic