Subscribe RSS Feed Itunes | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn Connect @topcastnow (Use #topcastnow) Email Topcast Get More TOPcastEpisode 175: “Let’s Stay Focused On What We Can Control” in Online EdEpisode 174: Get “All [Phil]’d Up” On LMS/Online Enrollment InsightsEpisode 173: Campus-Based Student Demand for Online Options (and More!) from CHLOE 9Episode 172: Online Education in GuatemalaEpisode 171: The “North Star” of Online Learners’ Needs View All Posted on August 21, 2017February 2, 2022 by cdladminWhat’s Exciting Dr. Norm Vaughan About Blended Learning? The following audio recording is raw footage of an interview Dr. Kelvin Thompson conducted with Dr. Norm Vaughan for TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast. An earlier interview is featured in TOPcast episode 29. (A phone buzz re-directs the flow of this follow-up conversation, but the dialogue is still rich with content and will be interesting to anyone interested in blended learning.) Interview with Norm Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Transcript: [PDF, RTF] About Dr. Norm Vaughan An educator and researcher with interests in blended learning, faculty development, and K to 12 schooling, Dr. Norm Vaughan is a Professor in the Department of Education, Faculty of Health, Community, Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. Norm's teaching background includes graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology, K-12 education in northern Canada, technical training in the petroleum industry, and English as a Second Language in Japan. In addition, he has been involved in several consulting projects with book publishers and higher education institutions to develop online courses and resources. He has co-authored the books Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry (2013) and Blended Learning in Higher Education (2008) and he has published a series of articles on blended learning and faculty development. Learn more about Norm at: https://sites.google.com/a/mtroyal.ca/normvaughan/