How-to Guides
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.
Ebooks and Guides
Check out our Ebooks and Guides to get the latest teaching tips and tricks.
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How-to Guides
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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Infographics, Teaching Tools
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 […]
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Trends and Insights
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.
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Teaching Strategies
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.
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Teaching Strategies
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
