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

Hosts Kelvin and Tom speak about (and to) the “core audience” of online faculty, instructional designers, and administrative leaders, alongside many other roles, to unpack the podcast’s conceptualization of online education as centered on optimizing course design and teaching.

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Faculty – Important Things for Your Summer 2025 Classes in Webcourses@UCF (Canvas)

Dear Faculty,  UCF and the Center for Distributed Learning are here to assist you and your students with Webcourses@UCF(Canvas), Zoom, and Panopto. Please review the following resources we have curated for faculty using these platforms, regardless of the course modality. Contact Webcourses@UCF Support if you have questions or need assistance.  Required Course Elements  Important! New Webcourses@UCF Update  Webcourses@UCF Reminders  Campus Resources  …

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Attention Faculty: MS Teams LTI Deprecation

Teams Classes and Teams Meetings integrations with Webcourses@UCF (Canvas) have been deprecated by Microsoft and will stop working on June 15, 2025. To avoid a mid-semester disruption those integrations will be removed from Webcourses@UCF (Canvas) on Monday, May 5, 2025. Microsoft plans to release a single integration that merges the functionality of the deprecated integrations. Once …

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New McGraw Hill Tool Coming This Summer

McGraw Hill Connect will be retired at the end of the Spring semester. For the Summer semester, please transition to the new and improved McGraw Hill tool. This updated application offers a clearer organization, a smoother transfer of course content to Webcourses, and a streamlined grading process. If you have already updated your McGraw Hill integration, you can safely …

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Faculty Survey: Use of Generative AI in Instruction

UCF’s Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE) in the Division of Digital Learning is conducting a study on faculty knowledge and the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to improve future support for faculty and students at UCF. This survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Thank you for your feedback! >> Take the Survey <<>> https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8064tAYH6bOVppc << …

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

Guest Dr. Thomas J. (Tom) Tobin joins hosts Tom and Kelvin for a slightly spicy conversation about the extent to which general teaching behaviors can be meaningfully separated from other factors such as course modality, student characteristics, institutional resources, and more.

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Episode 181: Help in Grasping “Good Online Course”

Hosts Kelvin and Tom discuss the challenge, still present after 30 years, of helping others (e.g., policymakers, potential students, etc.)  understand what a  “good online course” is without experiencing one themselves. They discuss why this still matters and what approaches might help.

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Episode 177: Creating the Digital Learning Future Our Students Deserve

In celebration of 30 years of OLC conferences and with input and reactions from our community of online/digital learning professionals, including a live audience(!), hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the issues inherent in predicting and shaping a desirable future for online/digital education over the next 30 years.

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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.)

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