Teaching Resources

Innovative and Unexpected Ways to Teach Your College Class

Connecting with students in the digital age requires creative thinking from educators who are willing to do more than the status quo. This free guide explores practical tactics and real life examples on how you can use innovation to boost your teaching.

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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

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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

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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

Education technology

How To Get Shy Students to Participate in Class

Difficult subject matter can make for shy students. One professor shares how he gets students to participate in class via technology