How to Help Students Overcome Impostor Syndrome
No one is immune to impostor syndrome’s effects, and millennials, faced with constant comparisons to friends’ accomplishments on social media, can be especially affected
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Philip Preville
Philip Preville is an award-winning journalist and a former Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto. He’s currently a member of the Professional Advisory Council with the Department of English at Ryerson University.
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2 Profs on the Benefits of a Course Refresh
In this abridged extract from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at a pair of professors who broke down and rebuilt the way they were teaching and changed their classes for the better. Candice Damiani Biology Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Candice Damiani could have kept teaching the same old way. […]
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Work-Life Balance: A Guide for Professors
Postsecondary educators, who often view their work as a vocation, are experiencing previously unseen levels of occupational stress. This guide will help you reach something more than work-life balance: a healthy integration of your career and your life
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How a Riot, a Rock Band and Rutgers Led to the Rise of Richard Florida
Top Hat is the active learning platform that makes it easy for professors to engage students and build comprehension before, during and after class. This interview is part of our recurring series “Academic Admissions” where we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in their lives. For more than […]
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The Professor’s Guide to Classroom Response Systems
Learn how to effectively choose and use clickers in the classroom, and gain tactical insights from professors who have put them to work to improve student outcomes
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Doug Lederman: OER Adoption Must Be Incentivized
Co-editor of Inside Higher Ed says that people mainly focus on the 'free' aspect of Open Educational Resources, but often forget about its adaptability and versatility
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How Formative Assessment Helps Prepare Students for a Career
Video: Washington State University’s Leslie Sprunger helps veterinary students behave professionally by using peer assessment
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How to Manage Math Anxiety in the Classroom
Video: Florida Atlantic University’s Burcu Karabina on helping liberal arts students overcome their fear of math
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Why Active Learning Matters Right Now
Video: UConn’s John Redden on how to make large classrooms more intimate, for students and professors alike
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What To Do If Students Don’t Read The Textbook
One answer to making sure students actually buy and read their textbooks before class is to write it yourself. And if that's not enough, another is to give your class starring roles
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How to Succeed at Course Transformation in a Big Class
There is a metaphor that postsecondary educators fall back upon when talking about a well-worn course: it’s like a house. Sometimes it needs a little fresh air, some new furniture in the form of think-pair-shares or other active learning exercises, to recapture students’ attention. Sometimes it needs to be stripped down to the studs and […]
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In the Search for Student Engagement, Fun Goes a Long Way
“The level of engagement in your students and your classrooms is not fixed. Yes, students will arrive in your classroom with varying levels of curiosity, but there are things you as an instructor can do to make your class better.”
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When Faculty Write Or Adopt OER, Student Outcomes Soar
Jasmine Roberts, a professor of communications at The Ohio State University, has a story to tell about how she ended up adopting open educational resources for her courses. It was, for her, a way to establish the Golden Rule: she did not want to treat her students the way she herself had been treated as […]
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Easy Ways to Personalize Instruction for Student Success
Jenel Cavazos and Greg Kitzmiller agree: if there’s one classroom tactic that’s effective at personalizing the student experience in their classrooms, it’s the word cloud. Often found on websites and in presentations, word clouds are clever graphic depictions of search terms and answers to open questions, with the most common words appearing in large print. […]
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Why It’s Important to Approach Teaching With a Growth Mindset
If you want to become a better educator, the first step is to embrace a growth mindset. We expect it of our students, so we should expect it of ourselves
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How to Teach Generation Z in the Classroom
The world seems to revolve around the Millennial generation. But Generation Z is serious-minded, success-focused and steeped in technology from kindergarten—and now, they’re taking over higher education
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Choosing a Classroom Response System For Your Institution
Looking for a checklist of things you need to ask a vendor when shopping for a classroom response system? This extract from our latest guide aimed at university administrators will take you through six important criteria to consider
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The Pros and Cons of Clickers in the Classroom
In this extract from our new e-book, How to Use Clickers in Your College Classroom, we look at the historic and modern-day reasons a professor might want to use classroom response systems such as clickers — and some of the pitfalls, too
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: A History and Why It’s Important
In this extract from our exclusive e-book, award-winning higher education journalist Philip Preville looks at the history and origin of Bloom's taxonomy and ponders its future place in classrooms that are increasingly dominated by technology
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Active Learning: Why It Matters in a Digital World
In an exclusive excerpt from our latest e-book, Active Learning: The Perfect Pedagogy for the Digital Classroom, education journalist Philip Preville demonstrates how digital technology can be adapted to the classroom to help facilitate active learning tactics. Over the last 25 years, as lecturing’s reputation as a sound teaching method has waned, the concept of […]