Teaching Resources

Ebooks and Guides

Check out our Ebooks and Guides to get the latest teaching tips and tricks.

  1. The 2021 Online Teaching Toolkit

    Learn how to elevate your online teaching practice, why community is so important to today’s college students and how to create it virtually

  2. The Innovative Professor’s Guide to Remote Assessments

    In this guide, we explore the fundamentals of online assessments and share strategies to help you adjust your assessment plans and drive student success.

  3. The Ultimate Guide to Creating Community in the Virtual Classroom

    Build an online learning community that will motivate and engage students. This free guide offers tools, activities and approaches you can use to get students working and collaborating together.

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    Adrift in a Pandemic: Survey of 3,089 Students Finds Uncertainty About Returning to College

    The sudden transition to remote teaching in the past few months due to the COVID-19 crisis pushed educators to piece together solutions to deliver their courses online. In many cases, the result was a disjointed experience that required professors to navigate various tech tools and platforms to bring their courses to life in a new […]

  5. Adrift In A Pandemic

    In this free report, we highlight the results of our survey of 3,089 North American higher ed students. We examine their thoughts on the move to emergency remote teaching in early 2020—and the implications for university administrators in the lead-up to the fall semester.

  6. The Ultimate Guide to Online Teaching

    In this guide, we explore the fundamentals of teaching online and share tools and best practices to help you accelerate your journey—and drive student success.

  7. How to Teach With Insights

    In this new guide, we highlight how technology is being used in five college classrooms to create a participation-rich setting where professors can easily and regularly employ evaluations—and leverage the results of those assessments to help struggling students.

  8. Top Tactics for Creating a More Engaged Classroom

    Read the stories of 13 top instructors from across North America, and see how they fixed their challenges with engagement and feedback with lasting changes on their classrooms

  9. The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching

    This guide summarizes the value of agile teaching and demonstrates how the best professors improve student outcomes by nimbly addressing their needs in real time

  10. Guide: How to Choose a Student Engagement System

    The 10 essential questions that faculty and administration should consider before choosing a technological solution for your school

  11. Work-Life Balance: A Handbook for Professors

    In this Work-Life Balance handbook for professors, we investigate the issues and offer concrete steps that educators can take for career and family harmony

  12. James Lang – How to Make Class Time Really Count

    James M. Lang, a higher education expert and the author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning, has valuable tips and strategies for improving student engagement

  13. How to Choose the Best Assessment Tool for Your College Class

    Assignments, midterms and final exams are not always a good indicator of student knowledge. Download our free e-book to learn the technology-led alternatives

  14. How to Use Clickers in Your College Classroom

    In this free guide you’ll learn how to effectively choose and use clickers in the classroom and gain tactical insights from professors who have put them to work to improve student outcomes

  15. Teaching Today’s Distracted Students

    With classroom engagement at an all time low, this e-book explores how smart professors can learn to welcome technology, rather than fight against it

  16. Active Learning: Classroom Engagement Techniques That Work

    How active learning techniques can improve student engagement and grades, and reduce dropout rates. Featuring actionable tips to use in class

  17. Active Learning: The Perfect Pedagogy for a Digital Classroom

    In this free guide you’ll hear from innovative professors who’ve leveraged technology to improve the student experience with active learning

  18. 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

  19. The Professor’s Guide to Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

    This guide quickly summarizes the core principles of Bloom’s taxonomy and demonstrates, by example, how top educators have harnessed this framework to help them achieve their teaching goals and improve students’ learning

  20. 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