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Danielle Leboff

Danielle Leboff is a Content Marketing Operations Specialist at Top Hat. While at Top Hat, Danielle works to share perspectives from higher ed's top leaders through strategic marketing efforts. Previously, she worked in the non-profit and youth education sectors.

  1. How to Plan and Design Any Online Course

    Teaching in the online space means remodeling your approach to teaching and learning to ensure student success and an inclusive virtual…

  2. Why Student Insight Is Essential In The Virtual Classroom

    Teaching with insight in an online environment means using data to support students and enhance the learning process as you go

  3. What Students Need to Succeed in Today’s College Classroom

    As learning shifts online, ensuring students are successful is more important than ever

  4. The Complete Guide to Effective Online Teaching

    Set yourself up for success in teaching online courses by ensuring continuity and continuing empathy for your students

  5. Toolkit: Getting Started with Remote Teaching

    Remote learning can be a daunting transition for many educators who are comfortable with their tried-and-true lecturing methods, syllabuses,…

  6. How Online Educators Get It Done: A Conversation with Andrea Hendricks

    This mathematics professor has taught remotely for 19 years—and has some wisdom to share

  7. Using Empathy to Encourage Student Participation

    Inclusivity, creativity, and fun are the keys to fostering lively class discussions and engaging students in their own learning

  8. How to Deal With The Mid-Semester Crunch

    As midterm exams and assignments to grade pile up, one professor shares their tips for handling one of the busiest times of the year

  9. Private is the New Public: The Problem with Tech Stars Chasing Private Money as They Don’t File IPOs

    In the face of myriad capital-raising options, founders of tech companies have the upper hand and are choosing to stay private for longer.

  10. How Professors Can Master Presenting In The Classroom

    One professor discusses some top tips for presenting course material to today's students in an effective and engaging way

  11. Five Resolutions for a New Term (or Year, or Decade!)

    One professor discusses embracing technology, guest speakers and active learning in her New Years' resolutions for 2020

  12. Debunking the Biggest Myths about Digital Courseware

    Here, we examine four of digital course materials biggest myths in the higher education space and determine the importance of active…

  13. How Think-Pair-Share Drives Student Participation

    Think-Pair-Share is an easy-to-implement strategy that improves the way students think, discuss and retain course material through group…

  14. Stephen Buckles, Lead Author of Top Hat’s 3 Intro Course for Economics Textbooks

    How this Vanderbilt University professor with a career in economics research and teaching used Top Hat to best engage his students in course…

  15. George Griffin, Lead Author of Top Hat’s Effective Public Speaking Textbook

    How this Keiser University professor used Top Hat to help his students overcome stage fright

  16. How to Engage Your Students With Effective Assessments

    Well-designed assessments encourage students to prioritize intellectual growth, while equipping them with marketable skills

  17. Making the Most of Guest Speakers in the Classroom

    How one professor uses guest speakers to allow her students to build a classroom community and engage in the process of their own learning

  18. Joseph Crivello: Co-Lead Author of Top Hat’s Anatomy and Physiology in Context

    This University of Connecticut professor authored a Top Hat textbook to relay complex anatomical concepts to his students

  19. Meaghan Altman: Lead Author of Top Hat’s Introduction to Psychology textbook

    How this Binghamton University professor uses Top Hat to create a more interactive learning environment

  20. Ed Tech in the Classroom: The Biggest Benefits and Challenges

    How educational technology in the classroom works for one communications professor —and some changes she’d like to see