The 2022 Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Blended Learning Symposium was a response to the events of the past decade, such as an absence of a concerted blended learning program, the pandemic, flagging student interest in higher education, technology's explosive development, and pressures to reconsider what constitutes a responsive and effective…

With the current surge of developing highly effective teachers, the scrutiny of teacher preparation programs is at the forefront of national teacher education conversations. In this content analysis, the researchers examined the teacher preparation programs of 10 schools in the Universities of Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area consortium using a…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a leadership development initiative on the school leaders and leadership coaches who participated in it. The initiative, called the Leadership Learning Community (LLC), was created in a research-practice partnership between a consortium of 12 predominantly rural, high-poverty school…

California's three public higher education systems (University of California, California State University, the California Community College System) enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100 thousand faculty. In 2012, the California State Legislature directed the three systems to create an online library of open…

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) lays strong emphasis on task-based language teaching (TBLT). However, this approach constitutes a challenge for many foreign language teachers, not so much because they are not familiar with the approach or its benefits, but because of the requirements and practical conditions to be met. Most…