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In-class classroom response software, including Top Hat Classroom, has a profoundly positive effect on engagement—and a knock-on effect on grades, a new study in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching says. The study, authored by Andrew J. Petto, Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University […]
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 alone. Imposter syndrome—being continually plagued with the feeling that you’re not qualified—is endemic within academia. Although it happens to most academics, it’s particularly prevalent and toxic among those who identify […]
Upgrading a print textbook to contain quizzes, surveys and checkpoints is far from a gimmick, according to psychology textbook author Stephen Franzoi. That’s why he’s transferring his current textbook, Social Psychology, to Top Hat’s digital platform. Franzoi builds self-report questionnaires into each of his chapters that students can take and then use to compare them […]
Personalized learning, formative assessment and improving student interaction all require technology to be teacher-led and focused on results
On-demand and interactive media is now the norm for Generation Z students coming into their first year of college—in fact, Generation Z’s eldest members are already in their senior year. Generation Z want personalization and they live and socialize online; having to purchase expensive, print-based textbooks leaves them nonplussed. Many don’t bother buying or reading […]
Gina Cody, the first woman to have an engineering school named after her in Canada, worked relentlessly to distinguish herself in a male-dominated field. But her success isn’t a one-off. It’s trailblazing a path for other women in STEM to succeed
Lisa Petrides—founder and CEO of ISKME, an independent education nonprofit—knew she could improve education. But she had to quit her dream job at Columbia to make it happen
In 2019, education technology will be about social change, better use of resources and improved infrastructure—not the branded gadgets we’ve come to expect
Top Hat’s panel of innovative educators have one piece of advice for rookie educators eager to start afresh in 2019—try something new, but slow down. “This is your domain, and you get to choose how you want to instruct students,” says Leslie Sprunger, associate professor at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. “Be willing […]
Knighted in 2003 for his service to the arts, Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools, charted an unlikely course to find international success—he chased whatever truly interested him
End of semester student evaluations are unreliable, biased and usually incomplete. Is there still a place for them?
Armed with the Bloom's taxonomy words, you can plan lesson activities and tasks, decide lecture and course outcomes, and accurately measure your students' progress
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 being different could be his ticket to the Ivy League
Top Hat’s CEO and co-founder Mike Silagadze credits the team, business model, and edtech platform.
Learn when it’s appropriate to set a multiple choice test for college students, and how to make sure they achieve your classroom’s learning goals — even higher-order thinking
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 well-structured course. We also look at how effective deployment of one can help the other, and why student achievement depends on a good balance between evaluation and teaching and learning
In the view of Eran Ben-Ari, chief product officer at Top Hat, artificial intelligence is doing exactly what it is supposed to – enhance and strengthen the work that students, teachers and administrators already do. Read the full article from the Globe & Mail to learn more.
Every year at the Engage conference, we honor some of the most exciting work done by the professors who use the Top Hat platform. From saving students time and money, via creating content and organizing workflows for remedial students, to supporting and promoting their colleagues’ work in technology adoption, each of our award winners have […]
The classroom has changed—and now there’s proof. A new survey by Inside Higher Ed, tracking professors’ attitudes towards educational technology and new teaching methods, has revealed that more and more instructors are becoming comfortable with being the first to try new teaching tools, a result that echoes Top Hat’s own yearly poll of higher education […]
All of our speakers at Engage 2018, our yearly Chicago conference for innovative educators, took the theme of the agile classroom to heart