Episode 171: The “North Star” of Online Learners’ Needs

TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

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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• 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””
    

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