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The Future of Active Learning
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Faculty Development
Student Evaluations: Problems and Possible Solutions
End of semester student evaluations are unreliable, biased and usually incomplete. Is there still a place for them?
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Faculty Development
How Faculty Can Apply a Growth Mindset To Their Teaching
Video: Cal Poly’s Laura Freberg on the value of constantly looking for opportunities to learn and grow
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Agile Classroom
Course Design For Agile Teaching: 5 Ideas To Try
Rote learning has become passé. So has passive teaching. These days, top educators are thinking about being agile…
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Student Assessment
How Formative Assessment Helps Prepare Students for a Career
Video: Washington State University’s Leslie Sprunger helps veterinary students behave professionally by using peer…
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Student Engagement
How to Manage Math Anxiety in the Classroom
Video: Florida Atlantic University’s Burcu Karabina on helping liberal arts students overcome their fear of math
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Agile Classroom
How and When To Make A Course Correction While Teaching
A “course made good” in teaching is like steering a ship—work out where you are, where you’re pointing, and how…
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Blooms Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy Words Point The Way To Clearer Outcomes
Armed with the Bloom's taxonomy words, you can plan lesson activities and tasks, decide lecture and course outcomes, and…
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Student Engagement
How Data Can Make You a More Agile Educator
Video: SUNY Buffalo’s Troy Wood on mining his classroom response system for information, and using it to become a…
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Innovation in Teaching
How an Unlikely Academic Ended up Running a Groundbreaking Harvard Lab
Todd Rose—bestselling author of The End of Average—dropped out of high school because he couldn’t fit the mold.…
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Active Learning
Why Active Learning Matters Right Now
Video: UConn’s John Redden on how to make large classrooms more intimate, for students and professors alike
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Innovation in Teaching
What To Do If Students Don’t Read The Textbook
One answer to making sure students actually buy and read their textbooks before class is to write it yourself. And if…
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Student Engagement
How To Motivate Students: Some Different Approaches
It’s an age-old problem faced by teachers: how to motivate students. While research has found a correlation between…
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Agile Classroom
How to Succeed at Course Transformation in a Big Class
There is a metaphor that postsecondary educators fall back upon when talking about a well-worn course: it’s like a…
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Student Assessment
Multiple Choice Test Ideas For College Classrooms
Learn when it’s appropriate to set a multiple choice test for college students, and how to make sure they achieve your…
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Active Learning
Top Hat in Action: High Expectations from Engineers
David Cereceda is Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, near Philadelphia, PA. Here, he…
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Student Engagement
In the Search for Student Engagement, Fun Goes a Long Way
“The level of engagement in your students and your classrooms is not fixed. Yes, students will arrive in your…
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Student Assessment
Formative Vs Summative Assessment: How They Work Together
In this edited extract from a Top Hat e-book, we look at formative vs summative assessment, and how both have roles to…
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Trends in Higher Education
Performance Assessment: How To Implement, And Why
Performance assessment is an increasingly common assessment method that offers significant advantages over traditional…
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Student Engagement
When Faculty Write Or Adopt OER, Student Outcomes Soar
Jasmine Roberts, a professor of communications at The Ohio State University, has a story to tell about how she ended up…
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Student Engagement
Easy Ways to Personalize Instruction for Student Success
Jenel Cavazos and Greg Kitzmiller agree: if there’s one classroom tactic that’s effective at personalizing the…
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Faculty Development
Student Evaluations: Problems and Possible Solutions
End of semester student evaluations are unreliable, biased and usually incomplete. Is there still a place for them?
-
Student Engagement
How to Manage Math Anxiety in the Classroom
Video: Florida Atlantic University’s Burcu Karabina on helping liberal arts students overcome their fear of math
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Innovation in Teaching
How an Unlikely Academic Ended up Running a Groundbreaking Harvard Lab
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…