Online Learning Consortium
The Online Learning Consortium is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime. OLC inspires innovation and quality through an extensive set of resources, including best-practice publications, quality benchmarking, leading-edge instruction, community-driven conferences, practitioner-based and empirical research, and expert guidance. The growing OLC community includes faculty members, administrators, trainers, instructional designers, and other learning professionals, as well as educational institutions, professional societies, and corporate enterprises.
The Online Learning Consortium, Inc. is a 501 nonprofit organization.
The Online Learning Consortium helps learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines. OLC supports the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.
OLC hosts conferences, workshops and programs to help implement and improve online programs; publishes the Online Learning journal
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OLC generates ideas to improve products, services and standards for the online learning industry, and assists members in collaborative initiatives. Members include private and public universities and colleges, community colleges and other accredited course and degree providers, and organizations and suppliers of services, equipment, and tools that practice the OLC quality principles.
| 2019 OLC Awards for Excellence in Online Teaching, Research and Leadership | |
| John R. Bourne Outstanding Online Program: | Bruce Dugger, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University; and David Batts, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Department of Technology Systems, East Carolina University |
| Gomory-Mayadas Leadership in Online Learning: | Jory Hadsell, Ed.D., Executive Director, CCC California Virtual Campus |
| Faculty Development for Online Teaching: | @ONE, the professional development team of CVC-OEI, California Community Colleges |
| Innovation in Online Teaching: | Celine Latulipe, Ph.D., Professor, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Research Achievement in Online Education: | Katrina Meyer, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, University of Memphis |