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Host Notes

Hi TOPcast Insiders!

Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or whether you just joined us recently, THANK YOU for listening (or watching or reading the transcripts)! As you’ll note in this top of the month season-opening episode, we would love to hear your bumper-sticker-worthy slogans to advance the cause of promoting what is excellent about online teaching and learning. Please send us a note at topcast@ucf.edu, and we might just feature your slogan in an upcoming episode.

- Tom and Kelvin

TOPcast Insider - Bonus Content

In these parody song lyrics from last winter’s #DulcetGurglesChallenge, read or hear Kelvin highlight the value of asynchronous online courses: “Jolly Old Asynchronous”

Ep89: 7 Slogans to Save Online Learning

In this Season 7 opener, Tom and Kelvin try out seven slogans intended as rallying cries to capture succinctly the aspirational goals of high quality online education and to serve as antidotes to widespread mischaracterizations post-pandemic.

Coffee Links

Bones Coffee Company (Cape Coral, FL)

Content Links

UCF’s Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
“Learn by Doing the 4-H Way: Putting a Slogan into Practice”
(In the Chronicle of Higher Education) “A Year of Remote Teaching: the Good, the Bad, and the Next Steps” (By Dr. Michelle D. Miller)
“Social Constructivism”
Dr. Michelle Pacandky-Brock (“Brocansky”) on Humanizing Online Learning
"Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR)"
Journal: “Online Learning” (from the Online Learning Consortium)
Publications by Dr. Chuck Dziuban and Dr. Patsy Moskal from UCF’s Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness (RITE)
Oregon State University’s “Online Learning Efficacy Research Database”
TOPcast Episode #88: “It Really Always Comes Back to Design” (with Shannon Riggs)

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

1 minute video: “Oh Fudge” clip from “A Christmas Story”
3.5 minute video: “Anyone Can Cook” (from “Ratatouille the Musical”)
TARDIS (from Doctor Who)
18 second video: “Soylent Green is People!”

Extra Special Feature

Video Version of this Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)

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