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Active Learning

  1. Infographic: How Top Hat Makes Learning Engaging and Meaningful in 2022

    Students have weighed in: dynamic courseware and frequent opportunities to show what they know do wonders for maintaining engagement.

  2. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation: 10 Tips to Increase Motivation in Hybrid Classes [PLUS: Free Hybrid Teaching Toolkit]

    To support learning, focus on shifting towards relationships and strategies that motivate students and keep them engaged

  3. Top Hat Field Report: 2,798 Students on Assessments, Career-readiness, and Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom

    Hope Amid the Uncertainty Hard-won lessons from remote teaching, along with growing concerns over student well-being and enrollment rates,…

  4. How to Choose the Right Gamification Strategy for Different Courses

    Gamify your course using these top-rated tools & strategies to engage your students in STEM, Social Science, Business and Arts & Humanities.

  5. Fall 2021 Student Survey: Uncertainty and Opportunity in Higher Ed

    As the Delta Variant casts its unwelcome shadow, our latest student survey shines a light on how educators can meet the evolving needs and…

  6. How to Personalize Your Classroom to Fuel Student Engagement

    A personalized learning environment allows students to see themselves reflected in all aspects of course content

  7. Interactive Textbooks Help Gen Z Learn From Real-World Content

    Professor Stephen Buckles’ digital textbook motivates students to discuss economics concepts. He’s even been able to keep it up-to-date…

  8. 20 Interactive Classroom Activities for College Students [Plus: Free List of 45+ Activities]

    Planning to use interactive classroom activities intentionally can really transform the learning dynamic. Here are 20 activities to get you…

  9. 10 Essential Icebreaker Activities for Any Online Course [+ Free List of 50 Icebreakers]

    Reduce student anxiety and uncertainty with these virtual icebreakers

  10. How to Implement Experiential Learning in Your College Classroom

    Experiential learning, or learning through doing and then reflecting, is the key to higher-order thinking and critical analysis

  11. 3 Ways to Bring Your Organic Chemistry Course to Life

    Professor William Ogilvie’s textbook emphasizes a mechanistic approach that favors understanding and application over memorization

  12. How to Give General Chemistry Students Confidence

    Professor Franklin Ow was determined to remove barriers to success in his general chemistry course. Here’s how authoring a digital…

  13. How a Digital Textbook Helped Earn This Prof a Perfect Course Evaluation

    Educator Nicole McNichols’ Top Hat textbook aligned with Gen Z’s learning style—plus, boosted student exam scores along with her own…

  14. 3 Ways to Drive Reading Comprehension Using a Digital Textbook

    Generation Z aren’t the type to read for fun—here’s how to address that in your real-time and self-paced college classes

  15. 4 Ways to Serve Up Conversation Starters in Class

    Students miss back-and-forth communication with their peers. Here’s how to fix that online.

  16. How to Include Inquiry-Based Learning in Your Classroom

    Inquiry-based learning helps deepen students' curiosity and critical thinking by extending education outside the classroom

  17. 45 Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs to Drive Student Success Online

    Evaluating student comprehension is a must. Here’s how Bloom’s Taxonomy can help.

  18. Active Learning Exercises for Multiple Teaching Modalities

    5 activities that work equally well in real-time, self-paced and face-to-face classrooms

  19. 4 Synchronous Tools for Online Teaching and Learning

    Highlighting the importance of building connections with students, strengthening support systems and assessing learners with a multitude of…

  20. Overcoming Student Resistance to Active Learning

    Unlike the relative ease of listening to a lecture, active learning demands a level of effort some students may neither expect nor want