TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

Episode 200: Last Call at the TOPcast Cafe

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Recorded in front of a plenary audience at the OLC Accelerate 2025 conference and drawing upon crowdsourced listener input and live audience questions, this is it: the final, regularly-scheduled episode of TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast. Please enjoy this cumulative synthesis of insights from the podcast. Good-bye and thanks for joining us for all the coffee and all the conversations!

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Coffee Links 
  •  Single-origin Thailand Doi Wiang Coffee from Lana Coffee (Fresno, CA)
    • Content Links
    • Smorgasbord of Past TOPcast Episodes Referenced in This Final Show
      • #32 – Provosts, Pedagogy, and Digital Learning (with guest Dr. Casey Green)
      • #37 – 6 Deadly Sins of Online Teaching 
      • #64 – Principles for Humanizing Online Education… and Remote Teaching (with guest Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock) 
      • #74 – “Connecting the Dots:” Lessons for Leadership (with guest Dr. Shubha Kashyap) 
      • #187 – The TOPcast “Core Audience” and Strategic Online Education 
      • #195 – Managing the Online Expectations of Presidents and Provosts 
      • All the “LMS” Episodes
      • All the “Holiday” Episodes 
      • All the “Season Kick-Off” Episodes 
      • Other Resources
        • Video: BYU’s “Loosely-Coupled Gradebook” (interview of Jon Mott by Jared Stein)
        • For Fans of The Dulcet Gurgles (Our “house band”)
          • [2020 Faux Commercial on YouTube] “Dulcet Gurgles Holiday Extravaganza” 
          • Dulcet Gurgles Digital Learning Sing-Along Songbook 
          • Dulcet Gurgles AI-Generated Playlist 
            • Just-For-Fun Pop Culture Links
            • [On YouTube] 1973 “Soylent Green Official Trailer” (Starring Charlton Heston) 
            • Backstory and Video Compilation of Commercials for “The Norelco Santa Claus” 
            • [On YouTube] 1984 “Gotta Make the Donuts” Commercial
              • Extra Special Feature
              • Video Version of This Episode!
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