Fall 2026 - Volume 29, Issue 3
- Supporting Online Programs and Faculty: A Push for Best Practices
- Beyond the Organizational Chart: Portfolio Fit and Seam Ownership in Digital Learning Governance
- Teaching with AI, Not Against It: A Thinking Partner Framework for Working Adult Learners in Compressed Online Formats
- Building and Leading Fully Online Campuses: Strategy and Data in Practice
- A Case Study of Faculty Perceptions of Collaborative Sessions for Student Practicum Experiences in a Fully Online Education Counseling Program
- They Deserve Training Too! Online Program Development Training for Deans and Chairs
From the Editor
Greetings,
As we move rapidly into a new era of online learning, I wonder if our success metrics are measuring relics of a bygone decade.
Before the pandemic and the proliferation of AI, our focus was on completion rates, graduation, and possibly career outcomes. Our best discussions focused on balancing rigor with a student-first approach, or helping administrators to overcome seeing remote learning as a yes or no proposition.
While we surely explored student isolation at length, most of us never predicted how tangible the epidemic of loneliness has become in spite of technologies that can "connect" us instantly. Perhaps our world today demands us to shift our thinking to new models and measures that focus more on qualitative measures of growth, well-being, and true reflection.
Such a shift can become a distinguishing characteristic in both enrollment efforts as well as contributing to a far healthier climate in education.
Peace to all,
Melanie N. Clay, Ph.D.
OJDLA Editor-in-Chief
October 15, 2026