All episodes

Episode 200: Last Call at the TOPcast Cafe

Episode 199: Pillar Panel #3: Faculty Professional Development in Online Ed

Episode 198: “An Instructional Design Institute in a Book!”

Episode 197: Pillar Panel #2: Evidence-Based Practice in Online/Digital Ed

Episode 196: The Future of Student Success and Digital Learning is “Co-created”

Episode 195: Managing the Online Expectations of Presidents and Provosts

Episode 194: Becoming Ambassadors of “Acceptance”

Episode 193: Pillar Panel #1: Leadership Vision in Online Ed

Episode 192: Futures Thinking and Digital Higher Ed

Episode 191: Student Retention Through Online Learning

Episode 190: “When Will Online Learning Stop Growing?” (Plus More Market Insights!)

Episode 189: “We Have a Problem” with Many of Our Incoming Students

Episode 188: How Do You Do It? Leading Strategy and Practice in Online Education

Episode 187: The TOPcast “Core Audience” and Strategic Online Education

Episode 186: Expert Tips for Online Program Marketing and Enrollment

Episode 185: What Do the Top 10 TOPcast Episodes Tell Us?

Episode 184: The Digital Learning Value of 1EdTech “Decomplexified”

Episode 183: No Lemmings! Avoid the Enrollment Cliff with a Values-Driven Strategy

Episode 182: When is “Good Teaching” Just “Good Teaching?”

Episode 181: Help in Grasping “Good Online Course”

Episode 180: Pan-Canadian Digital Learning Report (2024)

Episode 179: Temporary Remote Work and Remote Instruction… Again!

Episode 178: Transferable Skills of Digital Learning Professionals

Episode 177: Creating the Digital Learning Future Our Students Deserve

Episode 176: Credit for Prior Learning

Episode 175: “Let’s Stay Focused On What We Can Control” in Online Ed

Episode 174: Get “All [Phil]’d Up” On LMS/Online Enrollment Insights

Episode 173: Campus-Based Student Demand for Online Options (and More!) from CHLOE 9

Episode 172: Online Education in Guatemala

Episode 171: The “North Star” of Online Learners’ Needs

Episode 170: “Wise Use” of Rapidly Changing AI Tools

Episode 169: You Know Your Institution is Doing Online Ed Strategically When…

Episode 168: “More Positive Hope than Ever Before”

Episode 167: Cultivating a Startup Mindset

Episode 166: High Structure Course Design for Online STEM Courses

Episode 165: Why Still Prepare Faculty for Online Teaching? #IYKYK

Episode 164: Student Success Coaching Online

Episode 163: The Online Syllabus: “A Welcome Mat for the Course”

Episode 162: Listen and Act Now! US ED’s Proposed Online Changes

Episode 161: Taste the Rainbow of Online Ed’s Possible Futures

Episode 160: “Remember the Why:” Designing Meaningful Learning Assignments

Episode 159: “Adjusting Your Sails” in Online Ed Based on the Data

Episode 158: AI-Assistance Built-In: Less Obvious/More Useful

Episode 157: Pending Changes to Inclusive Access Programs

Episode 156: Reframing the Data That Tell the Stories About Online Students

Episode 155: High-Quality Online Discussions — Here’s How.

Episode 154: Alternative Educational Programs and Digital Higher Ed

Episode 153: Better Serving Learners Through Transformed Business Models

Episode 152: Still “Be Prepared” for Disruption with Digital Learning

Episode 151: “What a Year [of Disruption] It Has Been! […But] 2024 is Upon Us!”

Episode 150: A Global, Holistic, 360 Degree Perspective on Online Higher Education

Episode 149: “Baking AI into the Process” of Digital Learning Over the Next Five Years

Episode 148: Fostering Digital Learning Innovation

Episode 147: “Faculty Preparation” and More QA Insights from CHLOE 8

Episode 146: Get Hands-On with AI

Episode 145: “More of the Human Element:” Dolly, Picard, Ray, Dede, and More

Episode 144: Helping with “Running the Business” for 100 years

Episode 143: “Speaking in Dollars and Cents” About Online Learning

Episode 142: “Repurposing” – Working Smarter, Not Harder

Episode 141:  “It’s Star Spangled Learning, Baby!”

Episode 140: Maturing the Core Work of Online Education

Episode 139: Automating Digital Teaching — What Can Go Wrong?

Episode 138 Bonus: The Department Knew What It Meant:” DCL + OPM + TPS = OMG!

Episode 137: Digital Learning ABCs: A Primer for Innovation and Dissemination

Episode 136: Online Higher Ed: Finding Ourselves in Other People’s Stories

Episode 135: Different Institutions, Different Methods, Same Goals

Episode 134: Self-Care and Online Education: Saying Yes, Saying No, and Why

Episode 133: Professional Development Across Our Online Education Community

Episode 132: Lessons from Leading a Remote Online Learning Team

Episode 131: ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?

Episode 130: Data, DETA, Design, and More

Episode 129: Education Deserts and Online Strategy

Episode 128: Strategic Imperatives from 1EdTech

Episode 127: Community Wisdom: Students, Hybridity, and More!

Episode 126: COLOs, Context, and Community

Episode 125: Serving Our Communities with Non-Credit Online Learning

Episode 124:  Reliable “Buckets:” Toward Modality Clarity

Episode 123:  Hybridity Predicted and More from CHLOE 7

Episode 122:  More Equitable Outcomes Through Instructional Design

Episode 121: “Surprisingly Awesome” In-Person Engagement

Episode 120: Academic Innovation Lessons: Hype vs. Hope

Episode 119: Chatbots in Online Education

Episode 118: Observations on the Online Education Job Market

Episode 117: Online Discussion-Enhancement Tools

Episode 116: 3Fold Gains and the Improvement of Higher Ed

Episode 116 Bonus: Ehrmann on Chickering & Ehrmann (1996)

Episode 115: “Blendedness:” Deliberate Design with Student Benefit

Episode 114: Making Sense of COVID’s Ongoing Impact on Online Higher Ed

Episode 113: The Three Students You Might Meet in Your Online Class

Episode 112: SARA (and More!) Under Siege

Episode 111: “Onlineness:” Necessity, Not Convenience

Episode 110: The LMS: Institutional “Linchpin”

Episode 109: Protecting Online Higher Education from the Great Resignation

Episode 108: A Faculty Vision for Transformation of STEM Education

Episode 107: “Peeling the Onion” of Online Program Rankings

Episode 106: Rise of the CATO

Come Work for Us! Digital Learning Job Openings at UCF

Episode 105: How Roasted Is Your Course?

Episode 104: Digital Learning and the Liberal Arts

Episode 103: Learning from 2021: Our Listeners Speak