Episode 137: Digital Learning ABCs: A Primer for Innovation and Dissemination

About Episode 137:

In this Season 9 kick-off episode, hosts Thomas Cavanagh and Kelvin Thompson get back to basics with an alphabetical primer of concepts foundational to successful innovations in higher ed digital learning.

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Coffee Links

• Single-origin Guatemala San Marcos from Heine Brothers Coffee (Louisville, KY)
• About Heine Brothers Coffee

Content Links

• From the Wordlady Blog: “How Do You Say ‘Primer’?”
• On Wikipedia: “Primer” Overview
• Resource Links for Each Topic Featured in this Episode
  • Accessibility (from perspective of intersecting discourse communities)
  • Communication
    • Findings from UCF’s Distributed Learning Impact Evaluation (Dziuban and Moskal)
    • “Regular and Substantive Interaction: Background, Concerns, and Guiding Principles”
  • Design
    • Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator (Riggs, 2020)
    • Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (Tobin & Behling, 2018)
    • Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments (Kelly & Zakrajsek, 2020)
  • Blended
    • Practice
      • Free, open-licensed BlendKit Course 
      • The Blended Course Design Workbook: A Practical Guide (Linder, 2016)
      • Essentials for Blended Learning, 2nd Edition: A Standards-Based Guide (Stein & Graham, 2020)
    • Research
      • Blended Learning: Research Perspectives (Picciano and Dziuban, 2007)
      • Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 2 (Picciano, Dziuban, and Graham, 2013)
      • Blended Learning: Research Perspectives, Volume 3 (Picciano, Dziuban, Graham, and Moskal, 2021)
      • Plus… the same authors have a volume on conducting research on blended learning called Conducting Research in Online and Blended Learning Environments: New Pedagogical Frontiers (Dziuban, Picciano, Graham, and Moskal, 2015)
      • Blended University
        • “Planning for a Blended Future: A Research-Driven Guide for Educators” (Joosten et al., 2021)
• Engagement
  • The Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) has a whole section on teaching practices related to “Interaction” combining Communication and Engagement. 
  • UCF’s “Materia” engagement widgets engine

• Past TOPcast Episodes Referenced
• #10: The Iron Triangle: Stimulus for Innovation in Online Ed
• #21: Accessibility: It’s a Journey, Not a Destination
• #37: 6 Deadly Sins of Online Teaching
• #49: “You’re Making Me Crazy!” How to Improve Online Education
• #65: Preparing for the Post-COVID Future
• #89: 7 Slogans to Save Online Learning
• #113: The Three Students You Might Meet in Your Online Class

Extra Special Feature

• Video Version of this Episode!