Educational ROI
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…
Author Archive
Quin Parker
Quin Parker is a Toronto-based digital editor and writer, and is Content Marketing Manager at Top Hat.
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Faculty Development
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…
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Faculty Development
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
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Faculty Development
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,…
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Agile Classroom
How Top Hat Can Save You Time During Course Prep
A little bit of time invested in learning new ways of doing something can pay huge dividends in the future. Top Hat is an end-to-end…
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Innovation in Teaching
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…
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Active Learning
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…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Trends in Higher Education
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…
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Student Engagement
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…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Flipped Classroom
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…
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Innovation in Teaching
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…
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Student Engagement
Social Psychology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?
How leading social psychology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace
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Trends in Higher Education
Textbooks Are Obsolete: 5 Reasons The Digital Switch is Long Overdue
“The standalone textbook is becoming a thing of the past,” say Bill and Melinda Gates. “Even the best text can’t figure out which…
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Agile Classroom
Agile Teaching: 5 Profs On Course Management Principles
To be spontaneous, you have to plan. It might be a contradiction to look at agile teaching through the lens of course management, but if you…
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Education Technology
Technology in Education 2019: 5 Trends to Watch
In 2019, education technology will be about social change, better use of resources and improved infrastructure—not the branded gadgets…
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New to Teaching
5 Innovative Professors On The Future of Higher Ed
Top Hat’s panel of innovative educators have one piece of advice for rookie educators eager to start afresh in 2019—try something new,…
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Faculty Development
Student Evaluations: Problems and Possible Solutions
End of semester student evaluations are unreliable, biased and usually incomplete. Is there still a place for them?
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Blooms Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy Words Point The Way To Clearer Outcomes
Armed with the Bloom's taxonomy words, you can plan lesson activities and tasks, decide lecture and course outcomes, and accurately measure…