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How-to Guides

The Ultimate Guide to OER: How You Can Improve Educational Content

The Ultimate Guide to OER explains why traditional educational content no longer meets the needs of today’s educators or students, and why professors need to embrace OER if they hope to increase student engagement and success rates

Trends and Insights

The Death of Textbook Publishing & The Future of College Course Content

This white paper highlights the pattern of revenue decline in the textbook industry, and explains why OER is a viable option for professors and students looking for affordable and engaging content.

Teaching Strategies

Innovative and Unexpected Ways to Teach Your College Class

This guide explores four practical teaching tactics and uses real life examples from working professors to demonstrate how you can use innovation to separate yourself from the pack.

How-to Guides

Guide: Working with CTLs—A Handbook for Professors

How centers for teaching and learning can save professors time, and directly lead to improved learning outcomes for students

How-to Guides

BVT Publishing and Top Hat: The Benefits of Using Digital Textbooks

Teaching Strategies

Webinar: 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

How-to Guides

Webinar: How Professors Can Manage Information Overload

We could all use help preventing information overload. Join podcaster Bonni Stachowiak to learn about a practical strategy: personal knowledge management

Teaching Strategies

Webinar: A Conversation with Susan Cain

Watch on-demand as Susan Cain, author of the New York Times best-seller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, shares her recommendations for cultivating an inclusive and effective classroom for all