1. An Interactive Anatomy Textbook With Heart

    You wouldn’t normally expect students to have passionate opinions about their textbooks, let alone rave about them. But when Professor John Redden used Top Hat’s platform to build an interactive anatomy textbook for his class, 83% of his students said that it was “better than other books”—both interactive and digital—they’d ever tried before. As assistant […]

  2. 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 step yourself is easier than you think. Here are four ways you can boost your lecturing career and improve your reputation, knowledge and student feedback. Leadership If your medium-to-long-term plan […]

  3. 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 interactive text Statistics for Social Science. In the latest instalment of our webinar series, Why Innovative Educators Are Using Interactive Content, she talked about the lesson structure behind how she teaches a particular statistical concept—and […]

  4. 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 Ken Jowitt.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 developments you need to know.

  7. 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 professor Dan Chambliss.

  8. 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 students stranded abroad have now returned to the U.S.

  9. 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 that taps into professors’ thoughts on the current state of higher education. Check out the 2016 Professor Pulse Now’s your chance to contribute to the 2017 Professor Pulse! Whether you’re a […]