Insights

4 Keys to Designing Effective, Engaging Hybrid Courses

Published By John Falchi
on Nov 29, 2022

Championing Global Accessibility

Published By Carrie O'Donnell
on May 23, 2022

Staff Spotlight: Cheryl Laubacher

Published By Carrie O'Donnell
on Apr 14, 2022

Instructional Design for the X’s and O’s

Published By Brett Christie, PhD
on Apr 12, 2022

Women: The O’Donnell Origin Story

Published By Carrie O'Donnell
on Mar 11, 2022

One of my goals for founding O’Donnell Learn was to create an engaging, inclusive career opportunity for women who were Moms. Yesterday, on International Women’s Day, I reflected on that goal and am very proud that we have created a career path for 100s of women in the past 30 years!!

Check Ins Are Here to Welcome Students

Published By Carrie O'Donnell
on Mar 07, 2022

Recently, Brett Christie and I led a group of faculty through our Pump Up The Feedback webinar. We walked instructors through opportunities to shift formative assessments from obligatory check-ins into welcome opportunities for students and instructors to connect. Through research, we’ve seen that this shift infinitely uplevels learner engagement. We put together a series of easy steps to Pump Up The Feedback for Formative Assessments that will lower the stakes and up the intrigue for students.

The Shift from Quad to Cloud

Published By Brett Christie, PhD
on Feb 18, 2022

Two years ago, our day-to-day functioned on an entirely different scale. We were in person, constantly in community, and those expectations had existed for the better part of a century. Sure, technology swept in in the last two decades, swiftly shifting paradigms, but technology did not change how we gathered as a community. In fact,…