Introduction to the Special Issue: Select Papers Presented at the 2021 OLC Accelerate Conference and the 2022 OLC Innovate Conference

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https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v26i3.3570

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online learning, OLC conferences, educational research

Abstract

We are happy to present four articles solicited from the many conference presentations at OLC Accelerate, held in fall 2021 and OLC Innovate, held in spring 2022.  We encourage readers to continue to conduct research on innovation in the field and to consider presenting your rigorous research to OLC conferences and OLJ in the future.

Author Biography

Patsy Moskal, University of Central Florida

Patsy D. Moskal is the Director of Digital Learning Impact Evaluation for the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Since 1996, she has served as the liaison for faculty research of distributed learning and teaching effectiveness at UCF. Patsy specializes in statistics, graphics, program evaluation, and applied data analysis. She has extensive experience in research methods including survey development, interviewing, and conducting focus groups and frequently serves as an evaluation consultant to school districts, and industry and government organizations. She has also served as a co-principal investigator on grants including the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Gates-Foundation-funded Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). She frequently serves as a reviewer for conferences and journals and also for Department of Education and National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR proposals. Patsy has co-authored numerous articles and chapters on blended and online learning and frequently presents on these topics. In 2011 she was named a Sloan-C Fellow “In recognition of her groundbreaking work in the assessment of the impact and efficacy of online and blended learning. Patsy's most recent book, with co-authors, Dziuban, Picciano and Graham, Conducting research in online and blended learning environments: New pedagogical frontiers was published in 2015.

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2022-09-01

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2022 OLC Conference Special Issue