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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
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…
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Student Assessment
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
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Active Learning
Back to School 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 each…
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Trends in Higher Education
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…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Academic Admissions
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…
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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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Academic Admissions
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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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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Academic Admissions
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
5 Reasons the Switch to Digital Textbooks 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…
