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  1. 6 Apps For Teachers Struggling With Information Overload

    These apps for teachers, as recommended by Bonni Stachowiak of the Teaching in Higher Education podcast, will help you take back control of…

  2. How I Taught This: Keeping Nighttime Students Engaged and On Task

    How a digital marketing professor uses active learning tools to breathe new life into a three-hour night class

  3. Susan Cain’s 6 Things to Know About Introverts in the Classroom

    According to Susan Cain, author of the best-sellers Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a…

  4. How The 5 Main Textbook Companies are Being Disrupted

    The past 40 years will be seen as a time when college textbook companies ignited, expanded beyond expectation, and then began to die. And…

  5. Student-Centered Learning: 3 Ways Students Can Take Over

    Student-centered learning focuses on the meaningful needs and development of students in class, rather than the pedagogical course material…

  6. 4 Creative Teaching Ideas to Use During Your College Course

    Need a boost to your teaching as you enter into the new semester? Here are four creative teaching ideas for each stage of your course, from…

  7. 4 Professors Share Tips On Teaching Diverse Students

    There are no typical students, and no typical classroom. Some students might have never grown up with a university tradition in their…

  8. Cellphones in School are Essential to Learning, Say Students

    The students have spoken and one thing is clear: They view their mobile devices as an essential part of in-class learning. In early…

  9. Current Trends in Education: Professor Pulse Survey 2017

    The results are in from our comprehensive survey of over 5,000 educators across the United States and the world—our definitive barometer…

  10. How to Organize a Lecture: Use This Free Planning Tool

    Every teacher knows what a pedagogical lecture plan is meant to achieve in the classroom. But if you want to know how to organize your…

  11. OER vs. Textbooks: 3 Reasons the Future is OER

    Educators have good reasons for turning their backs on traditional textbooks. While textbooks have until now been an essential teaching…

  12. Top Hat Wins PROFIT 500 Excellence In Innovation Award

    Top Hat has received Canadian Business magazine’s PROFIT 500 Excellence in Innovation Award, recognizing its work pushing boundaries in…

  13. Engage 2017’s Innovative Educator Awards: Who Won and Why

    Engage 2017 wasn’t just about learning new teaching techniques—it celebrated innovative educators who used new methods to meet their…

  14. 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…

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. 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…

  18. 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.

  19. 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…

  20. 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…