Episode 200: Last Call at the TOPcast Cafe

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!

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!