{"id":3640,"date":"2021-12-15T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:11:07","slug":"online-student-association-marks-10-years-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/online-student-association-marks-10-years-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Student Association Marks 10 Years of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column3640_5fdb84-5b dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>For a decade, students learning remotely have been interacting with one another and participating in Wilmington University activities through the Online Student Association (OSA), created to provide online students with an opportunity to experience WilmU\u2019s collaborative culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OSA operated initially via the&nbsp;Blackboard&nbsp;Learning Management System and has evolved from a peer-to-peer resource to a robust destination that makes life more convenient for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now hosted in the&nbsp;Canvas<em>&nbsp;<\/em>Learning Management System, OSA continues to provide student discussion forums. Led by online student navigators Kelly Clayton and Dr. Lauren Havens, OSA now serves more than 11,000 students. Features include information on student life and careers, designated academic college discussion groups, and connections to virtual events. OSA is practical, too, with tutorials and resources for online learning and an option to request a student ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brief&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/extwidget\/preview\/partner_id\/1582871\/uiconf_id\/44014881\/entry_id\/1_22myskgx\/embed\/dynamic?\">video<\/a>&nbsp;provides an overview of today\u2019s OSA.&nbsp; Learn more about the OSA or connect with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/onlinelearning\/navigator.aspx.\">online student navigators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a decade, students learning remotely have been interacting with one another and participating in Wilmington University activities through the Online Student Association (OSA), created&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[603],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-online-and-experiential-learning"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":603,"label":"Online and Experiential Learning"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AcademicDigest_Image_OEL_12-21-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Delana Maule","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/delana\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":603,"name":"Online and Experiential Learning","slug":"online-and-experiential-learning","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1160,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":29,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16014,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/16014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}