New Certificate and Degree Search

You can now search for certificates and degrees in OhioLearns! using Career Fields!  

The Ohio Board of Regents College Access Information Hotline

The hotline provides information about financial aid, scholarship and grants and other resources available at the local, state and federal level. The number for the College Access Hotline is 1-877-I ATTAIN (1-877-428-8246)  

FIND EVENTS! technopoli web calendar

Easily locate technology-related conferences, workshops, and seminars. Create your own weekly alert or RSS and get the info you want. Visit technopoli now!  

OLN Statewide Smarthinking Initiative:

Twenty-six institutions participate in the OLN / Smarthinking statewide initiative in order to further promote student success and retention. Participating institutions have realized more than $90,000 in cost savings, with more than 9,400 students having used the services.
For more about the statewide initiative, contact Karen Boyd 

Join the Instructional Design Listserv

The list will facilitate the sharing of best practices, models, and ideas that lead to high quality courses and excellent experiences for students. Click here to join. 

Do you teach online?

If you do, the Online Teaching and Learning listserv is for you. The listserv facilitates the sharing of best practices, models, and ideas that lead to high quality online courses and excellent experiences for students. Click here to join. 

Do you create podcasts or want to?

Then the Podcast listerv is for you. The subscribers of this list participate and help each other problem solve so that podcasting is used in educationally effective ways providing students with high quality learning experiences. Click here to join the listserv.  

Lumina Foundation funding helps Ohio adults get a QuickStart to College

A $522,200 grant from Lumina Foundation for Education will give working Ohioans a QuickStart to college at three area institutions. Read the press release about OLN’s newest initiative (PDF). 

Quality Matters in Ohio

Quality Matters (QM) offers a faculty-centered peer review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and online components and an array of accompanying professional development resources. For more information or to join the Ohio Quality Matters Consortium click here.  

Cuyahoga Community College Wins ITC Award for Excellence

ITC announced the winners for its 2010 Awards for Excellence in eLearning. Winners will be recognized at a special luncheon on Monday, February 22, 2010 at the 2010 ITC eLearning Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. Winners were reviewed and chosen by a panel of judges comprised of members of the ITC board of directors. The reviewers held all of the winners to the high, best-practice standards exemplified by previous ITC award winners. The winner for the Outstanding Online Course is Cuyahoga Community College for Captioning and Court Recording: Real Time Theory. Congratulations! 

ITC Recognizes Distinguished Educators

The Instructional Technology Council recognized two Ohio educators with Excellence in Distance Education awards at the 2010 eLearning Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. Distinguished eLearning Educator recognition was awarded to Sheida Shirvani of Ohio University-Zanesville and Diana Tuggey of The University of Akron 

eTutoring offers online academic support

With greater adoption of online and blended courses at Ohio’s higher education institutions, Web-based student services are important strategic tools and services to assist with the recruitment and retention of students. Online tutoring is a critical e-student service for higher education institutions as they better serve their students. Collaborating with Ohio’s higher educational community to ensure student success is central to OLN’s mission. Fifteen public two-year and four-year colleges created the Ohio eTutoring Collaborative in late 2009 with the hopes of saving money while providing more tutoring services for their students. More than 70,000 Ohio college students have access to free online tutoring in math, calculus, statistics and writing. Synchronous sessions with math tutors are offered every day of the week from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. Students can post eQuestions or they can enter an eChat room to work with a tutor directly utilizing video, audio, eChat (instant messaging-like dialogue), and a whiteboard. Papers can be uploaded for an asynchronous review by a writing tutor. Trained tutors answer questions, point to areas of concern, and provide “next steps” in the writing process. If your institution is interested in this statewide-initiative, we welcome your inquiry. Please contact Karen Boyd, eTutoring Program Coordinator, 614-485-6524, kboyd@oln.org.