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Education technology
6 Pros & Cons of Technology in the Classroom in 2018
How-to guides
Gamification in Education: 4 Ways To Bring Games To Your Classroom
Education technology
Open Educational Resources at Top Hat: Why Free Now Means Free
How-to guides
Free Guide: How Digital Textbooks Help Learning
Webinars
Top Hat Talks: Engaging Quiet Students with Top Hat Classroom
How do you, as a professor, foster an open, engaged environment in which every student can learn, regularly contribute and benefit from your lectures? Join Professor Matt Numer as he shares his advice on getting students to participate in class using technology
Innovative educators
How I Taught This: Flipping the Chemistry Classroom
Greg Domski shares the story of how he flipped his classroom using Top Hat’s organic chemistry textbook, in How I Taught This, Top Hat’s interview series profiling professors who have moved the needle with technology
Innovative educators
How I Taught This: Making Math Connect with Arts Students
Video: A Florida professor talks about the value of formative assessment as part of her journey to improve math learning for liberal arts students
Faculty life
Ohio University and Top Hat Help Faculty Win Big on Affordability
When Ohio University and Top Hat set out together to save students $500,000 on textbooks by the fall, we blew through the target four months early. More than 7,500 students (and counting) have saved money so far
Education technology
9 Teaching Podcasts to Boost Your Edtech Knowledge
Whether you’re new to technology in the classroom or have embraced it wholeheartedly, advancements in edtech are moving rapidly. Here are a few of our picks of the top teaching podcasts to keep up-to-date
How-to guides
Active Learning Explained with 8 Real Life Examples
Active learning techniques range from quick-and-simple interventions to semester-long redesigns of course structure and delivery
Innovative educators
Factfulness: Bill Gates Offers Class of 2018 a Free Download of Optimism
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is giving away Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling to every U.S. student graduating in 2018—a book intended to equip today’s undergraduates with hope for the future
Teaching trends
Beyond the Workshop: How Admin Can Help Faculty Teach
For Centers of Teaching and Learning, getting faculty to even show up at a teaching workshop is a victory. C. Edward Watson, Associate VP at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, offers some strategies that can engage professors