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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Coffee Links 

• Trader Joe’s Small Lot Single-Origin Mexico La Concordia Coffee
• Starbuck’s Maple Pecan Coffee

Content Links 

• Phil Hill’s Online Profile
• “On EdTech Newsletter”
• Phil Hill and Associates
• [On Apple Podcasts] “Online Education Across the Atlantic” Podcast (hosted by Phil Hill, Glenda Morgan, and Neil Mosley)
• LMS Provider Websites
  • Blackboard by Anthology
  • Brightspace by D2L
  • Canvas by Instructure
  • Moodle
• [On Corporate Finance Institute Website] “[Everett Rogers’] Diffusion of Innovation”
• Related Prior TOPcast Episodes
  • #159: “‘Adjusting Your Sails’ in Online Ed Based on the Data” [includes shoutout to Phil Hill’s work]
  • #140: “Maturing the Core Work of Online Education” (with guest Neil Mosley)
  • #110 – “The LMS: Institutional ‘Linchpin’” (with guest Kerlene King)
  • #12 – “The LMS: Past, Present, and Future”

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

• [2.5 minute video] “Pecos Bill Rides A Tornado in Texas”
• [In All Recipes] “Wait—How Do You Pronounce ‘Pecan?’”
• [Craft Beer from Hop Atomica] “It’s Pronounced Peecan”

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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.

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Coffee Links 

• Pecan Crunch Oat Milk Latte (Starbucks)

Content Links 

• The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) Project (2017-present)
• [Hosted by Bayview Analytics] Historic “Babson Reports” AKA “Sloan Surveys of Online Learning” (2003-2016)
• Reflections on That [Attributed to] Gretzky Quote
• “Primer” on “Movement” within US Department of Education in Phil Hill and Associates’ On EdTech Newsletter
• Related Past TOPcast Episodes
  • #161 – “Taste the Rainbow of Online Ed’s Possible Futures”
  • #147 – “Faculty Preparation and More QA Insights from CHLOE 8”
  • #123 – “Hybridity Predicted and More from CHLOE 7”
  •  #93 – “‘A More Generalized Perspective:’ Reflections on the CHLOE 6 Report”

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

• [In All Recipes] “Wait—How Do You Pronounce ‘Pecan?‘”
• [From Wikipedia] “Krampus”
• [From Marvel.com] Groot and Arbor Day
• [Re-release, Extra Pop Culture] Past Present Podcast’s tracing of “the history of the pumpkin spice phenomenon”

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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 country’s pursuit of online education compared to that of other countries around the globe.

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Angie Rocha

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Coffee Links 

• Single-Origin Guatemala Santa Felisa Yellow Catuai from Bean & Bean Coffee Roasters (New York, NY)

Content Links 

• Angelica Gabriela Rocha Guevara’s Profile on the UCF Digital Learning Website
• Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
• Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
• Past TOPcast Episodes
  • #24 “Multilingual Musings: International Connections in Online Education” (with guest Alejandra (“Alex”) Pickett)
  • #150 “A Global, Holistic, 360 Degree Perspective on Online Higher Education” (with guest Dr. Safary Wa-Mbaleka)

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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 goal must be shared between individual faculty and institutional processes to assure quality at scale.

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Coffee Links 

• “Equinox: A Fall Blend” from Sunergos Coffee Roasters (Louisville, KY)

Content Links 

• [Please Click and Vote Now!] Listener Poll: Crowdsourced Input on “TOPcast Live” Session at OLC Accelerate 2024
• Publisher’s Site: The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education
• [Book via Project MUSE] Learning Online: The Student Experience (George Veletsianos)
• [Supported by ProctorU] “Student Bill of Rights”
• Past TOPcast Episodes
  • Episode #133: “The Three Students You Might Meet in Your Online Class”
  • Episode #99: ““The Importance of ‘Faculty Voice and Faculty Valuing’ in Online Education””
    

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

• Access (and Translate!) a Morse Code Excerpt from this Episode

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Return guest Nicolaas Matthijs joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss some of the trends he’s seeing in the rapidly changing AI-assisted technology space with an eye toward how digital learning professionals can make wise use of the tools in our work.

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Nicolaas Matthijs

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Coffee Links 

• Tanzania Peaberry Lyamungo from Sunergos Coffee (Louisville, KY)

Content Links 

• [Please Click and Vote Now!] Listener Poll: Crowdsourced Input on “TOPcast Live” Session at OLC Accelerate 2024
• Visual: “Gartner Hype Cycle” 
• Video Interview: “Exploring the Frontiers of AI: A Conversation with [Columbia University] Professor Hod Lipson”
• Keynote Video: “If AI is the Answer, What is the Question: Thinking about Learning and Vice Versa” (Dr. Chris Dede)
• Prior TOPcast Episodes
  • #158: “AI-Assistance Built-In: Less Obvious/More Useful” (with Nicolaas Matthijs)
  • #146: “Get Hands-On with AI” (with Dr. Rohan Jowallah)

Just-for-Fun Pop Culture Link

• [On vinyl 45 rpm records] “Bemused and a Bit Bereaved on Behalf of the B Side”

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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 learning. Implications for a variety of institutional roles are considered.

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Coffee Links 

• Mysterious Clues on “Ruthie’s Blend” from Stomping Grounds Coffee Co., Louisville, KY

Content Links 

• [Research study] “A National Study of Online Learning Leaders in US Higher Education” (Fredericksen, 2017)
• [Research study] “A National Study of Online Learning Leaders in US Community Colleges” (Fredericksen, 2018)
• UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Online Leadership
• [UPCEA article] “The Chief Online Learning Officer: Competencies, Roles, and Trajectories” (Herron, Lashley, Salley, and Shaw, 2016)
• [From UPCEA, 2023] “Definition Update: Chief Online Learning Officer (COLO)”
• [Edited book] From Grassroots to the Highly Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Organizational Landscape in Higher Education (Bouchey, Graz, Kurland, 2023)
• TOPcast Episodes
  • #36: “Finding Online Learning Leaders: ‘Fredericksen’s List’”
  • #126: “COLOs, Context, and Community”
    
  • #136: “Online Higher Ed: Finding Ourselves in Other People’s Stories”

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

• Hidden Brain podcast

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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 affordances of relationships are all the more crucial in solving our challenges.

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Guest Melissa Loble

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Coffee Links 

• Single-Origin Costa Rica Central Valley from Dunn Brothers Coffee (Minneapolis, MN)

Content Links 

• Melissa Loble’s Online Profile
• Melissa Loble’s Reflection Post on InstructureCon 2024 (referenced in this episode)
• Dr. Mary Murphy’s (Stanford U/Indiana U) Work on Growth Mindset in Organizational Cultures
• Past TOPcast Episodes
  • Episode 64: “Principles for Humanizing Online Education… and Remote Teaching/Learning” [with guest Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock]
  • Episode 151: “What a Year [of Disruption] It Has Been! […But] 2024 is Upon Us!” [featuring remarks from Jared Stein]

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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.

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Coffee Links 

• Fellow Drops’ profile page for “Funkonia,” a single-origin Rwanda from Portrait Coffee
• Portrait Coffee (Atlanta, GA)
• Instagram page for multidisciplinary artist, “The Color”

Content Links 

• [In Medium] “Embracing the Startup Mindset” (by Guy Kawasaki)
• [In Medium] “What Is ‘Futures Literacy’ and Why Is It Important?” (by Niklas Larsen)
• [In Medium] “Inviting Innovation… Running Hack Day” (by Ian Turgeon)
• “Life is Better When You Make Stuff” pilot episode of (2016) Megamaker podcast
• “Cultivating Your Purpose” episode of Hidden Brain podcast
• TOPcast Episodes
  • Episode #148: “Fostering Digital Learning Innovation” (with guest Jared Stein)
  • Episode #133: “Professional Development Across Our Online Education Community”
  • Episode #161: “Taste the Rainbow of Online Ed’s Possible Futures”

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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!

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Guest Dr. Justin Shaffer

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Coffee Links 

• Brewing Guide for Coava Coffee Roasters’ Single Origin Timor-Leste Daurfusu Honey from Fellow Products
• “Timor-Leste” from The World Factbook

Content Links 

• Dr. Justin Shaffer’s Online Profile
• Sign-Up for Information on Dr. Shaffer’s New Book on High Structure Course Design
• Dr. Shaffer’s Google Scholar Citations Page
• From the US National Science Foundation (NSF): “‘Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology’ Initiative Charts New Path for College-level Biology” (2012)
• 2012 President [Obama’s] Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Report: “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates With Degrees in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)”
• From NIH National Library of Medicine: Freeman, Haak, and Wenderoth (2011) Research Study: “Increased Course Structure Improves Performance in Introductory Biology”
• Hogan & Sathy’s (2022) Book: “Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom”
• Joosten & Cusatis’ (2019) Research Study: “A Cross-Institutional Study of Instructional Characteristics and Student Outcomes: Are Quality Indicators of Online Courses Able to Predict Student Success?”
• Joosten et al.’s ( 2021) Research Review: “Educational Technologies and Their Impact on Student Success for Racial and Ethnic Groups of Interest”
• Previous TOPcast Episodes Related to STEM Teaching

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In this episode, hosts Tom and Kelvin explore the rationale underlying continued institutional efforts to prepare faculty for online course design and teaching. Hint: It’s about students.

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Coffee Links 

• “New Orleans Style Coffee with Chicory” from Lucile’s Creole Cafe (Boulder, CO)

Content Links 

• TOPcast Episode #59 “Online Faculty Development”
• TOPcast Episode #99 “The Importance of ‘Faculty Voice and Faculty Valuing’ in Online Education”

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Dr. Jenny Sumner joins hosts Kelvin and Tom to discuss the growing role “coaching” plays, especially online, in centering students and their success within our higher ed work.