TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

About Episode 102: In this episode, Kelvin and Tom discuss the many build vs. buy decisions that face those responsible for supporting online teaching and learning. From staffing to software development and much in between, options abound. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 102 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights via Twitter Coffee Link...

About Episode 101: Hosts Tom and Kelvin explore the various perspectives represented in the “Cameras-On vs. Cameras-Off Debate” with an eye toward finding common ground and actionable insights for designing effective synchronous online sessions beyond the emergency ad hoc remote instruction era. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 101 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View co...

About Episode 100: In this episode, Dr. Sasha Thackaberry joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to discuss change management strategies for leading online initiatives.  Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 100 Show Notes: Dr. Sasha Thackaberry Associate Vice Chancellor for Learning Experience Design Innovation at National University Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episod...

About Episode 99: While specialists in online education, such as instructional designers and administrative leaders, help carry out online courses and programs strategically, it is the faculty whose voice, wisdom, and human connections make online learning successful. In this episode, hosts Kelvin and Tom discuss the importance of this faculty voice and valuing. Podcast Recording Download Transcri...

About Episode 98: Guest Ryan Rogers joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss the experiences of K12 students during remote instruction and the challenges higher education institutions face in re-setting incoming first year students’ expectations of actual online courses. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Ryan Rogers, Director of Student Services- Lyman High School Episode 98 Show Notes: Epis...

About Episode 97: In this episode, join hosts Kelvin Thompson and Tom Cavanagh for a discussion of the factors affecting institutions’ pursuit of the mix of course modalities that is best for them. Online, blended, hybrid, and in-person courses are all part of the mix. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 97 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highl...

About Episode 96: Renowned guest Dr. Patsy Moskal joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to share key insights from 25 years of conducting research studies and impact evaluation on digital teaching and learning. Grounding our work in this robust body of literature is especially important as we seek to distinguish intentional online learning from ad hoc remote instruction. Podcast Recording Download Transcript...

About Episode 95: Join hosts Kelvin and Tom for a consideration of the range of options for post-pandemic work being considered across higher education. As online education professionals, if we can’t figure out how to do this well, who can? Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 95 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights via Twitter Coffee Link...

About Episode 94: Hosts Tom and Kelvin are joined by guest Dr. Julie Mendez to consider how to overcome challenges faced by STEM faculty who might be resistant to teaching online or blended courses. Spoiler: It’s about faculty talking to faculty! Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 94 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights via Twitter Coffe...

About Episode 93: Hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss themes found in the recent CHLOE 6 report on how higher ed’s remote instruction pandemic response has impacted the landscape of online education. Listeners are encouraged to compare the presented themes with their own observations in order to better understand our field and prepare for the future. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 93...

About Episode 92: From her time as CAO of Davis College, guest Dr. Cristi Ford joins Kelvin and Tom to talk about the impressive work of Rwanda’s Akilah Institute in providing educational access to women via a combination of blended learning, competency-based education, and international partnership. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 92 Show Notes: Guest Dr. Cristi Ford with Tom a...

About Episode 91: Redesigning courses from one modality to another was a rushed necessity in the early days of remote instruction, and it might be an expectation of some administrators post-pandemic. Join hosts Tom and Kelvin as they unpack what listener Jerry Dougherty has termed “intermodal learning.” Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF Episode 91 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter...

About Episode 90: President Gregory Fowler of the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to discuss distinctive ways that our individual institutions can innovate to create opportunities for unique groups of students by meeting them where they are. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 90 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list o...

About Episode 89: In this Season 7 opener, Tom and Kelvin try out seven slogans intended as rallying cries to capture succinctly the aspirational goals of high quality online education and to serve as antidotes to widespread mischaracterizations post-pandemic. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 89 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we have been popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons. (I know, the anticipation is palpable!) Last up: The MOST downloaded episode from Season 06. Currently, th...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons.  Now up: Season 06. We will feature two episodes from Season 06 as we round out this “TOP 7” promotion. Currentl...

About Episode 88: Guest Shannon Riggs joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss her book “Thrive Online” and a key principle that, when pursuing quality, regardless of online, blended, synchronous, or in-person course modality, “it really always comes back to design.” Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 88 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highli...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin again popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons.  Now up: Season 05. Currently, the most downloaded episode from Season 05 is Episode 64: “Principles for H...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin again popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons.  Now up: Season 04. Currently, the most downloaded episode from Season 04 is Episode 37: “6 Deadly Sins of...

About Episode 87:  Join hosts Kelvin and Tom for a consideration of the need across higher education to collaboratively wage a campaign of accuracy to repair the damage done to the reputation of online education during the remote instruction response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 87 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin again popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons.  Now up: Season 03. Currently, the most downloaded episode from Season 03 is Episode 36: “Finding Onl...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin popping into your podcast feed again in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons. Up next: Season 02. Currently, the most downloaded episode from Season 02 is Episode 15: “It’s More About...

Transcript Hi. This is Kelvin popping into your podcast feed in anticipation of TOPcast’s upcoming SEVENTH season. For each of the seven weeks leading up to the first episode of Season 07 we are popping in to draw your attention to the most popular episodes of the preceding six seasons.  First up: Season 01. The most downloaded episode from Season 01 remains the one that started it all, Episode #1...

About Episode 86: Student evaluation of instruction is often contentious. In this episode, guest Dr. Barbara Zorn joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to share findings from a data mining research study of end of term evaluations from 60,000 online courses. Research in this area guides our field in using these evaluations effectively. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 86 Show Notes: Epi...

About Episode 85: In this episode, join Kelvin and Tom for a discussion of how “blended” is likely to permeate higher education institutions far beyond the bounds of blended learning course design. Ponder the opportunities afforded by blended campus workplaces and blended co-curricular experiences in the post-COVID era. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: [ PDF ] Episode 85 Show Notes: Episode...