Ebooks and Guides

Teaching Strategies

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

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: 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

How-to Guides

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

How-to Guides

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

How-to Guides

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

How-to Guides

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

Teaching Strategies

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

Teaching Strategies

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

Teaching Strategies

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

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

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

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

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

Guide: Textbook Heroes

Get inspiration from 11 professors across North America who switched their print textbooks for digital ones—and became heroes in their very own classrooms

How-to Guides

Digital Textbooks: How to Create Interactive Content

This handbook highlights the benefits of creating interactive course content and textbooks both from a pedagogical and financial point of view

Trends and Insights

Report: Professor Pulse 2018

We surveyed nearly 2,000 faculty members across North America and asked them to weigh in on the current state of higher education, their careers and how they use technology in the classroom