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Episode 118: Observations on the Online Education Job Market

WCET’s Megan Raymond joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to comment on patterns observed in the current job market for online higher education professionals including instructional designers and related roles.

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Episode 117: Online Discussion-Enhancement Tools

In this episode, hosts Kelvin and Tom consider the role of asynchronous discussions in online education and discuss how technology platforms/tools might provide some enhancement.

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

Guest Dr. Stephen C. Ehrmann joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss lessons learned from studying six exemplar higher ed institutions that have achieved “3fold gains” by improving educational quality, access, and affordability.

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

Hi this is Kelvin for TOPcast. As an accompaniment to episode 116, Tom and I would like to offer to everyone a brief bonus clip with Dr. Stephen C. Ehrmann from late 2021 in which Steve reflects on the impact of the famous article he co-wrote in 1996 with Arthur Chickering (The title of that …

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

As a companion piece to episode 113 on “onlineness,” in this episode hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the related concept of “blendedness” – the deliberate design of a unified in-person + online experience in ways that benefit students directly.

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

NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenetz joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to pause for a holistic check-in evaluation of the on-going impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online higher education.

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

In this Season 8 opener, Tom and Kelvin share sample student profiles illustrating the varied needs of students enrolling in online courses, and they call for a strategy of integrated data to better inform such profiles.

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Episode 112: SARA (and More!) Under Siege

Guests Russ Poulin and Cheryl Dowd join hosts Kelvin and Tom to bring some breaking news on governmental regulation that could change the way online higher education works in the US. Listen carefully and share with institutional colleagues to avoid unpleasant surprises.

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Episode 111: “Onlineness:” Necessity, Not Convenience

In this episode Tom and Kelvin unpack what it means for online courses to be “online” and why it matters to students if instructional designers or instructors make decisions that negatively impact this “onlineness.”

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Episode 110: The LMS: Institutional “Linchpin”

Guest Kerlene King joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss what it takes for the learning management system (LMS) to be used strategically at institutions of higher education.

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