Online Course Development Planning

CHLOE 10: Meeting The Moment: Navigating Growth, Competition, and AI in Online Higher Education, 2025

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:46:14 Z

This report assesses the current state of online learning in higher education.

CHLOE 9: Strategy Shift: Institutions Respond to Sustained Online Demand

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:49:47 Z

This report reveals a continued increase in student preference for online learning and the strategies institutions are employing to address this demand.

CourseGateway Digital Learning Tools

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:05:11 Z

CourseGateway (CGWY) was a 3-year partnership between EDUCAUSE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It provided resources for faculty, instructional design teams, and administrators to discover, evaluate, select, and implement digital classroom tools.

CHLOE 8: Student Demand Moves Higher Ed Toward a Multi-Modal Future

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:22:48 Z

This report assesses the current state of online learning in higher education.

2023 Faculty and Technology Report: A First Look at Teaching Preferences since the Pandemic

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:32:45 Z

In this report, we look at modality preferences and online and hybrid teaching since pre-pandemic.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Hybrid Learning

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:39:44 Z

This report draws on the insights of a small panel of higher education teaching and learning experts to describe an optimized future for hybrid learning, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:07:50 Z

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

After the Pivot: Strategic Evolution of Online Education in the Research University

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:37:53 Z

This discussion paper was designed as a resource to assist academic leadership in Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions in evaluating strategic decisions related to the future role of online learning activities at their universities.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report^® | Teaching and Learning Edition

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:08:06 Z

The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Student Experiences with Technology in the Pandemic

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:42:03 Z

EDUCAUSE conducted a special Fall 2020 study to gain insights on the student experience during what has been an exceptional time of disruption. In these reports, we share our results from the study related to online learning and connectivity.

Fall Planning for the New Normal: Moving Higher Ed Online

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:24:22 Z

The Fall Planning for the New Normal: Moving Higher Ed Online report sheds light both on the general trends that have taken shape as institutions planned and made preparations for fall education and on the particular practices and models that institutions have deployed.

Learning and Teaching Reimagined: Change and challenge for students, staff and leaders

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:23:28 Z

This JISC publication, Learning and teaching reimagined is a sector-wide initiative focused on providing university leaders with inspiration on what the future might hold for higher education and guidance on how to respond and thrive in those environments.

Instructional Continuity Plans

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:16:56 Z

The Coronavirus (COVID19) is preventing students and staff from meeting face-to-face, learning institutions are developing alternative educational delivery methods to move the classroom online.

Traversing the Edge of Chaos

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:09:17 Z

A series of blog posts pondering a post COVID 19 world for higher education.

Continue Teaching in Times of Crisis

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:43:32 Z

The American University of Beirut put together Important resources to guide to faculty in making course content accessible from anywhere, anytime.

7 Things You Should Know About Online Program Management

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:29:45 Z

Online program management (OPM) refers to the practice of contracting with external, third-party organizations that help colleges and universities develop and deliver online degree or certificate programs. Some OPM options are based on a “tuition revenue share” model in which a vendor provides services in exchange for a share of revenues. Others are based on a fee-for-service model. OPM is often used to jumpstart an online presence for institutions that do not have that capacity in-house.

Innovating with Purpose: The Blended Flow Toolkit for Designing Blended/Hybrid Courses

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:13:46 Z

When faculty at Seattle University asked for additional support designing blended courses that successfully integrate online and classroom learning, instructional designers at the Center for Digital Learning & Innovation created an interactive Blended Flow Toolkit to assist faculty with that request.

Promises and Pitfalls of Online Education

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:39:43 Z

Continued improvement of online curricula and instruction can strengthen the quality of these courses and hence the educational opportunities for the most in-need populations.

HarvardX and MITx: Four Years of Open Online Courses -- Fall 2012 - Summer 2016

Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:27:49 Z

This “Year 4 Report” extends these earlier findings to four complete years of HarvardX and MITx courses on edX, resulting in one of the largest surveys of MOOCs to date: 290 courses, 245 thousand certificates, 4.5 million participants, 28 million participant-hours, and 2.3 billion events logged online. We present our findings in a series of nine exhibits that address questions about the evolution of the MOOC movement from its birth in 2012, through its current adolescence.

Accessibility Support Model: How a Large University Supports Diverse Learners Taking Online Courses

Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:04:03 Z

In this session, we will share the University of Central Florida's Accessibility Support Model for online courses that was designed to provide a scalable and systematic approach to creating accessible online courses.