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Student Engagement

Statistics for Social Science Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

How leading Statistics for Social Sciences textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

Trends in Higher Education

Personalized Learning: The Ultimate Guide

In today’s classroom, the pressure is on for educators and students to succeed. So how do higher ed facilitators and instructors provide a…

Student Engagement

Introduction to Psychology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

How leading introduction to psychology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

Student Engagement

Basic Chemistry Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

How Top Hat’s always up-to-date interactive textbook fares in the higher ed marketplace

Student Engagement

General Chemistry Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

How Top Hat’s always up-to-date interactive textbook fares in the higher ed marketplace

Student Engagement

Cognitive Psychology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

How Top Hat’s always up-to-date interactive textbook fares in the higher ed marketplace

Student Engagement

Grit and a Gift for Engineering Pave a Way for Women in STEM

Gina Cody, the first woman to have an engineering school named after her in Canada, worked relentlessly to distinguish herself in a…

Blooms Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy Question Stems For Use In Assessment

One of the most powerful aspects of Bloom’s revised taxonomy is that it offers you, as an educator, the ability to construct a curriculum…

Innovation in Teaching

This Prof Turned a Thirst For Knowledge Into His Dream Job

Dr. Steven Sloman studies how people think, make decisions and learn. It’s a natural choice for somebody who was brought up to question…

Active Learning

Why It’s Time to Take a Course in Active Learning

If time travelers from the far future visit our era and look at the history of education, they’ll see a strange blip. Why are students…

Faculty Development

Want to Make Education Better? Leave Academia

Lisa Petrides—founder and CEO of ISKME, an independent education nonprofit—knew she could improve education. But she had to quit her…

Innovation in Teaching

Sir Ken Robinson: From Special Ed To Academic Royalty

Knighted in 2003 for his service to the arts, Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools, charted an…

Innovation in Teaching

How an Unlikely Academic Ended up Running a Groundbreaking Harvard Lab

Todd Rose—bestselling author of The End of Average—dropped out of high school because he couldn’t fit the mold. Then he realized that…

Student Assessment

Formative Vs Summative Assessment: How They Work Together

In this edited extract from a Top Hat e-book, we look at formative vs summative assessment, and how both have roles to play in a…

Faculty Development

Beyond the Workshop: How Admin Can Help Faculty Teach

For Centers of Teaching and Learning (CTLs), getting faculty to even show up at a teaching workshop is a victory. But there are still…

Active Learning

6 Interactive Classroom Activities for College Students

Planning to use interactive classroom activities intentionally can really transform the learning dynamic. Here are four activities to get…

Educational ROI

3 Factors Toward Choosing Online Economics Textbook Content

PJ Glandon, an economics professor at Kenyon College in Ohio, spoke recently on our Engage 2017 conference panel on the Pros and Cons of OER…

Blended Learning

Cellphones in School are Essential to Learning, Say Students

The students have spoken and one thing is clear: They view their mobile devices as an essential part of in-class learning. In early…

Current Trends in Education: Professor Pulse Survey 2017

The results are in from our comprehensive survey of over 5,000 educators across the United States and the world—our definitive barometer…

Education Technology

OER vs. Textbooks: 3 Reasons the Future is OER

If you’re making a decision on OER vs. textbooks, this excerpt from our new Ultimate Guide to OER may help explain why traditional…