OLC Collaborate Alaska — Conversations Around Innovation: The Future of eLearning

In the digital, networked era, faculty are at various stages in the technology adoption spectrum: some are visionary edTech enthusiasts, others are technology skeptics, while many see the potential technology brings to teaching and learning but are reluctant to change. How can institutions leverage this diversity to create a culture of eLearning that supports student learning, inspires faculty, and recognizes organizational barriers that may impede change?

Join the EdSurge team for a hands-on workshop digging into ‘the why’ of digital learning. We’ll explore what problems you are trying to solve for your institutions and how digital learning practices and products can be leveraged to increase the quality and accessibility of learning for students.

There has been a lot of discussion about the promise of digital learning to increase access to postsecondary courses and improve student outcomes, yet there is still much work to be done to demonstrate these outcomes for all learners. Join three different researchers as they share insights from recent work in the digital learning landscape related to faculty, research evidence, and courseware implementation.

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) analysis of Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAward) submissions captures the current state of digital courseware implementations across undergraduate institutions of higher education. Strategies to increase student success were identified in undergraduate programs at various institution types with 2-year and 4-year programs.

Building on the well-received Instructional Design in Higher Education report, we are in a pivotal position to support the ID field and bring awareness to the impact they can have in the overarching field of higher education. We see instructional designers as the glue between students, technology, and instructors. Instructional designers have the potential to become the go-to people on campus for online and blended learning expertise- but they aren’t currently being fully utilized. This workshop will focus on real problems going on today at higher-ed institutions and the ways that IDs can help solve them. Learn design thinking, best practices, and ways to fully engage the ID on your campus.

Join the EdSurge team for a guided deep-dive into the unique problems your campus is trying to solve. Leveraging research, data and the EdSurge product index, you’ll walk out with a defensible method to evaluate and choose student success tools for your campus.