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Educators have good reasons for turning their backs on traditional textbooks. While textbooks have until now been an essential teaching tool, they’re no longer doing the job they need to do. Here are three reasons why. 1. They’re outdated The way textbooks have traditionally been created and conceived is incredibly antiquated. Textbooks—especially the standard editions […]
Top Hat has received Canadian Business magazine’s PROFIT 500 Excellence in Innovation Award, recognizing its work pushing boundaries in education and technology. PROFIT 500 is the country’s most prestigious yearly celebration of entrepreneurial achievement. For nearly 30 years, it has measured businesses on five-year revenue growth to identify the most dynamic and successful firms in […]
Engage 2017 wasn’t just about learning new teaching techniques—it celebrated innovative educators who used new methods to meet their classroom goals. In our inaugural Innovative Educator Awards, these following four educators showed focus, spirit and imagination in improving their student engagement and results. Top Author Beth Hammett—College of the Mainland, TX English Beth Hammett began […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Richard A Muller, author and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, writes about the inspirational teaching technique of political scientist Ken Jowitt.
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.
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.
About the least effective thing you can do to improve classroom learning is enact a major, centralized plan, according to sociology professor Dan Chambliss.
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.
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 […]