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The Future of Active Learning
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Active Learning
How to Engage Students in Active Learning
You’ve created new lesson plans and are experimenting with active learning in the classroom. The problem is, your…
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Innovation in Teaching
How to Use Data in Class To Achieve Better Learning Outcomes
In this abridged extract from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at how technology has…
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Active Learning
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…
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Education Technology
The Professor’s Guide to Classroom Response Systems
Learn how to effectively choose and use clickers in the classroom, and gain tactical insights from professors who have…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Trends in Higher Education
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…
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Student Engagement
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…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Education Technology
This Entrepreneur Is Making Kids Fall in Love With Science
In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role…
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Faculty Development
Course Evaluation: What’s Wrong and How to Fix it
Course evaluation often elicits groans from students — and can cause stress for instructors. There’s even an…
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Education Technology
How Does Technology Impact Student Learning?
How does technology impact student learning? Some postsecondary educators view technology as a distraction in the…
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Flipped Classroom
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…
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Faculty Development
9 Ways Faculty Themselves are Changing Education
Including the rise of data collection, the continuing decline of print textbooks and the increasing use of adjuncts in…
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Active Learning
Agile Teaching vs Active Learning: What’s the Difference?
In this excerpt from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at the origin of the agile…
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Education Technology
SXSW EDU 2019: 4 Key Takeaways About Education Technology
Personalized learning, formative assessment and improving student interaction all require technology to be teacher-led…
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Student Engagement
How a ‘Slacker’ Ended up Leading a World-Class Theoretical Physics Institute
In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role…
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Student Engagement
10 Classroom Icebreakers For College Professors
Classroom icebreakers encourage new students to have conversations, get to know each other and feel comfortable in your…
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New to Teaching
Pedagogy: What Educators Need to Know
This article aims to offer you a good understanding of what ‘pedagogy’ is (and how to say it!), why it’s important…
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Innovation in Teaching
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…
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Innovation in Teaching
10 Team Building Activities for Students
Team building isn’t just for the corporate workplace — it can also be used in the classroom to encourage…
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Active Learning
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…
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Faculty Development
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…
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Faculty Development
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…