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AI Can Draft a Lesson. It Can’t Design Learning.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the most talked about innovations in education. New tools promise to generate lesson plans, quizzes, discussion prompts, rubrics, and even entire units in seconds. For educators balancing curriculum development, grading,…
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Reading the Signals: What Global Research Trends Tell Us About Online Learning
Every day, hundreds of new studies are published across the world about online and blended learning. Individually, they tell us about specific technologies, teaching strategies, or learner populations. Collectively, however, they tell a much bigger story. By looking across…
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From Pedagogy to Andragogy: Expanding the Learning Designer’s Toolkit
Every learning designer is, at heart, a student—of their craft, their content, and most importantly, their audience. That’s why understanding the psychology of learning isn’t just helpful, it’s transformative. When designers grasp how adults learn, what motivates them, and how…
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Do Asynchronous Courses Need Synchronous Sessions to Succeed?
At OLC Innovate this past March, Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant raised a provocative idea: fully asynchronous courses need synchronous opportunities to truly support student success. I’ll be honest—that landed hard. As someone who has spent years designing and teaching in…
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Come for the Learning. Stay for the People.
There is a moment at every OLC Accelerate when you realize you are no longer standing in a room full of strangers. Maybe it happens over coffee when someone asks where you are from. Maybe you find yourself laughing with someone you met five minutes ago through an Engagement Hub…
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Choose the Occupied Table
I remember arriving at my first OLC conference in Nashville feeling three things at once: excited, nervous, and a little in over my head. I was eager to learn and meet people who cared about the same things I did, but walking into a conference for the first time can be…
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The Power of One: Navigating Accelerate with Our Field Guides
There is always that moment at a conference when you walk into a room filled with people, scan the crowd, and wonder where you are supposed to go. Maybe you recognize a few faces from LinkedIn or have colleagues attending with you. Or maybe you are standing there thinking, “I…
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Bringing Many Lights Into Focus: Curiosity and Connection at OLC Accelerate 2026
In this time of ever-increasing change for digital learning practices and across educational institutions, we often find ourselves feeling our way around in the dark. Many of us are working as hard as we can to interpret the shadows of a future just around the corner, with…
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August 2026 Snap Survey Results: When Technology Reduces Effort, Where Should Learning Go?
Technology has long changed how much time and effort students need to complete academic work. Calculators reduce the mechanics of computation. Search tools make information easier to locate. Word processors simplify drafting and revision. Statistical software can perform…
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I Gave Students a Choice Between Instructor-Created and AI-Generated Content. Most Chose Both.
Artificial intelligence has quickly become part of higher education. Faculty are using AI to brainstorm activities, summarize readings, create study materials, and develop instructional resources. Along with the excitement comes a common question: When students have a choice,…