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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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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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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
The Right Time to Use Tech for Active Learning
In this abridged extract from Top Hat’s Active Learning Course, we look at the role that technology has to play in…
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Student Engagement
How Blockbuster Helped Neil Garg Become a Better Prof
Your first job, whatever it might be, is often a useful foundation, as Neil Garg, Professor of Chemistry at University…
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Student Engagement
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: How Rhetoric Can Improve Your Teaching
The three rhetorical appeals — pathos, ethos, logos — were defined by Aristotle hundreds of years ago, but they’re…
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Active Learning
4 Common Impediments to Active Learning
In this excerpt from our free course on how to implement active learning, we look at the barriers frequently encountered…
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Trends in Higher Education
Textbooks Are Obsolete: 5 Reasons The Digital Switch is Long Overdue
“The standalone textbook is becoming a thing of the past,” say Bill and Melinda Gates. “Even the best text can’t…
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Trends in Higher Education
Women in STEM, Role Models and The Crucial Role of Higher Ed
Role models in education, industry and even television are needed to increase the percentage of women in STEM, say two…
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Student Engagement
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…
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Education Technology
YouTube in the Classroom: 7 Tips and Best Practices
While YouTube is better known for Taylor Swift and video game commentary than higher education, the video hosting…
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Trends in Higher Education
Learning Styles: The Ultimate Guide
Learn more about the learning styles approach, and how you can use them as a basis to explore new teaching ideas and…
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Agile Classroom
Agile Teaching: 5 Profs On Course Management Principles
To be spontaneous, you have to plan. It might be a contradiction to look at agile teaching through the lens of course…
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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 all forms of higher…
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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 methodology—and…
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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 education has played in…