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  1. Lecturer Career Ideas: 4 Ways To Get Ahead

    If you’re a lecturer waiting for your administration to send you on a training course, you could be waiting a long time. Taking the first…

  2. 4 Ways Of Teaching Stats in 1 Interactive Text

    Deborah Carroll is a Psychology professor at Southern Connecticut State University and contributing author of a chapter of Top Hat’s…

  3. The Professor Who Gets a Standing Ovation After Every Lecture

    Richard A Muller, author and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, writes about the inspirational teaching technique of political scientist…

  4. Top Hat Wins Canadian Startup of the Year

    It's official: Top Hat is the best Canadian startup around, and at the sixth annual TechVibes awards we received the trophy to prove it.

  5. DeVos Watch: Free Speech on Campus and HBCU Funding

    In the first of a regular series, we look at Betsy DeVos's actions as Secretary of State for Education--and we showcase the important…

  6. Why Your Strategic Learning Plan is Doomed

    About the least effective thing you can do to improve classroom learning is enact a major, centralized plan, according to sociology…

  7. How the U.S. Travel Ban Affected Iranian Students

    After a federal judge stayed President Trump’s travel ban blocking entry from several Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, some…

  8. The 2016 Professor Pulse Survey Results

    With more than 21,000 responses collected, Top Hat is proud to share the results of the 2016 Professor Pulse survey — a global survey…