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  1. Public Speaking Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading public speaking textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  2. General Chemistry Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading general chemistry textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

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  5. 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…

  6. 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

  7. 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,…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. 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…

  14. SXSW EDU 2019: 4 Key Takeaways About Education Technology

    Personalized learning, formative assessment and improving student interaction all require technology to be teacher-led and focused on…

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. 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…

  18. Technology in Education 2019: 5 Trends to Watch

    In 2019, education technology will be about social change, better use of resources and improved infrastructure—not the branded gadgets…

  19. 5 Innovative Professors On The Future of Higher Ed

    Top Hat’s panel of innovative educators have one piece of advice for rookie educators eager to start afresh in 2019—try something new,…

  20. 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…