Digital Textbooks Erase Barriers For Teachers and Students Alike
Authors of digital textbooks are short-circuiting the gatekeepers and saving their students money. In this extract from our…
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What Happens in a Top Hat Certification Class
If you’re just getting started with Top Hat and wondering how to use it to its full potential, help is at hand. At Top Hat, we run regular…
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How Technology in Education is Pioneered By Business Schools
No business would try to ban laptops and pretend technology didn’t exist: and it’s the same in the business classroom. In fact,…
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Lesson Plan Template
Free Lesson Plan Template Innovative Teaching Tool to Organize Course Material Effectively Planning for your lessons is fundamental to being a successful educator. Top Hat’s team of instructional designers have created an easy-to-use and comprehensive lesson plan that will make planning for your course stress free, enjoyable but most importantly effective. About this lesson plan This […]
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Active Learning: Why It Matters in a Digital World
In an exclusive excerpt from our latest e-book, Active Learning: The Perfect Pedagogy for the Digital Classroom, education journalist Philip…
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Gamification in Education: 4 Ways To Bring Games To Your Classroom
What is gamification? Gamification is the use of game design and mechanics to enhance non-game contexts by increasing participation,…
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Should Cellphones Be Allowed in School? Only With a Plan
Should cellphones be allowed in school? College students are going to bring their cellphones to class no matter what you do. As a teacher,…
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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…
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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…
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11 Teaching Quotes to Inspire Educators in 2018
From Comenius to Montessori, here are some teaching quotes for the modern educator—all about letting your students challenge their…
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9 Ways Professors Can Reduce Textbook Costs For Students
Andrew Petto, PhD, is Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. A former anatomy and physiology lecturer,…
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9 Teaching Podcasts to Boost Your Edtech Knowledge
There are tons of resources for educators on everything from new technology to digital pedagogy, teaching strategies and thought leadership…
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How I Taught This: Flipping the Chemistry Classroom
It didn’t take Greg Domski long to find his calling. Within two weeks of starting his undergraduate education, he veered off the pre-med…
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The Secrets of the Cognitive Domain in Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s taxonomy, introduced in 1956 and revised in 2001, is one of the most well-known frameworks for classifying educational goals,…
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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
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: A History and Why It’s Important
In this extract from our exclusive e-book, award-winning higher education journalist Philip Preville looks at the history and origin of…
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Fill in the Blank Questions for Assignments and in Class
Auto-graded fill in the blank questions are hard to fit to the needs of students. Here's how to create them on Top Hat and allow room for…
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How to Introduce a Classroom Response System: Practical Tips
Jenel Cavazos, Top Hat Top Scholar, Associate Professor of Psychology and Introductory Psychology Coordinator at the University of Oklahoma,…
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How a Professor’s Puppets Inspire a Creative Writing Class
Professor Linda M. Rodriguez, Professor of Caribbean Literature, Film, and Creative Writing at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez,…
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The Pros and Cons of Clickers in the Classroom
In this extract from our new e-book, How to Use Clickers in Your College Classroom, we look at the historic and modern-day reasons a…