TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 174: Get “All [Phil]’d Up” On LMS/Online Enrollment Insights
Guest Phil Hill joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to discuss substantive insights on the role of the LMS and trends in online higher ed enrollments. (Must see TV. Even if it is a podcast.)
Episode 173: Campus-Based Student Demand for Online Options (and More!) from CHLOE 9
Hosts Tom and Kelvin talk through themes from the CHLOE 9 report that stand out as broadly applicable to all online education professionals while we all seek to anticipate or shape the future.
Episode 172: Online Education in Guatemala
Guest and former Hubert Humphrey Fellow Angelica Gabriela Rocha Guevara joins hosts Tom and Kelvin from Guatemala to discuss the similarities and differences of her countrys pursuit of online educati
Episode 171: The “North Star” of Online Learners’ Needs
Hosts Kelvin and Tom consider the centrality that online learners needs must have in shaping the work of online higher education. Particular attention is given to how responsibility for this common g
Episode 170: “Wise Use” of Rapidly Changing AI Tools
Return guest Nicolaas Matthijs joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss some of the trends hes seeing in the rapidly changing AI-assisted technology space with an eye toward how digital learning profess
Episode 169: You Know Your Institution is Doing Online Ed Strategically When…
Hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the relationship between the strategic value institutions find in online education and institutions establishing senior roles of responsibility for online and digital lear
Episode 168: “More Positive Hope than Ever Before”
Guest Melissa Loble joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to share an optimistic vision for the future of technology-enabled higher education. Amidst heightened automation and AI assistance, the uniquely human a
Episode 167: Cultivating a Startup Mindset
Hosts Kelvin and Tom explore the catalyzing personal and organizational value of individuals cultivating a startup mindset, regardless of personal role, in the work of digital higher education.
Episode 166: High Structure Course Design for Online STEM Courses
Guest Dr. Justin Shaffer joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss the role high structure course design can play in making online STEM courses more effective and fun!
Episode 165: Why Still Prepare Faculty for Online Teaching? #IYKYK
In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin explore the rationale underlying continued institutional efforts to prepare faculty for online course design and teaching. Hint: Its about students.