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Quin Parker

Quin Parker is a Toronto-based digital editor and writer.

  1. Social Psychology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading social psychology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  2. 4 Must-Haves For a Modern Digital Textbook

    Interactive features, and content that’s customizable and always up to date are among the most important aspects to consider when adopting…

  3. Save Time Before, During and After Class with Top Hat

    A little bit of time invested in learning new ways of doing something can pay huge dividends in the future. Top Hat is a single, end-to-end…

  4. In Lieu Of Textbooks, What Are Students Reading?

    Students are increasingly strategic when it comes to utilizing textbooks—and it’s up to professors to find solutions that ensure…

  5. 3 Ways Student Data Can Improve Your Teaching

    Leveraging data from your classroom can be one of the most effective ways to ensure students succeed

  6. Toolkit: How to Fuel In-Class Engagement

    It’s the stuff of cold sweat nightmares: you’re midway through a semester you swore was going to be different. You came to…

  7. The Downsides of Using Older Editions of Textbooks

    Textbook prices continue to be out of control—and one of the most common ways that students get around the issue of high prices is through…

  8. Quiz: What Kind of Class Prepper Are You?

    Are you spending too much time preparing for your classes each week? Or not quite as much as you should? Follow this simple quiz—picking…

  9. Big Data is the Secret to Student Success in Higher Ed

    Dr. Mark Milliron, Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at Civitas, draws on his own experience as a student, using data to give a leg up…

  10. What You Need to Know About Millennial Faculty

    For Boomer and Gen X academics, here are five traits—including being teamwork-focused and boasting a reward-seeking mentality—your…

  11. How Education Helped This Author Escape a Decade of Abuse

    There's far too much silence around domestic abuse, says bestselling author, speaker and UofT scholarship award winner Samra Zafar

  12. 4 Professors Share Their Work Burnout Stories

    Most faculty aren’t doing what they do for the money: it’s a vocation. But when you do what you love—and in particular for adjuncts,…

  13. How to Use Data in Class To Achieve Better Learning Outcomes

    In this abridged extract from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at how technology has made it easier for…

  14. Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Active Learning?

    When it comes to active learning, do you know your Bonwell from your Eison? Are you problem solving, or is everything just at the muddiest…

  15. Change—and Persistence—Helps This Award-Winning Mathematician Thrive

    In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in…

  16. 3 Ways To Keep Your Teaching Nimble

    In this abridged extract from Top Hat’s new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at three different ways that…

  17. Classroom Response Software Lifts Engagement and Grades: Study

    In-class classroom response software, including Top Hat Classroom, has a profoundly positive effect on engagement—and a knock-on effect on…

  18. 5 Professors Share Their Experiences of Imposter Syndrome

    Who do you think you are? What are you playing at? Sooner or later, somebody is going to find you out… Sound familiar? You’re not…

  19. How Interactivity Will Boost Learning in BVT’s Social Psychology Text

    Upgrading a print textbook to contain quizzes, surveys and checkpoints is far from a gimmick, according to psychology textbook author…

  20. A Textbook That Teaches Students How To Learn

    On-demand and interactive media is now the norm for Generation Z students coming into their first year of college—in fact, Generation…