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Education Technology

  1. Top 2018 Edtech Predictions: New Mindsets and Finding Value

    We spoke to Elijah Mayfield and Todd Brekhus, two of the top influencers in the educational technology world, to get their 2018 edtech…

  2. 10 of the Most Innovative People In Edtech Social Media

    In a world of proclaimed experts on social media, who is actually worth listening to? We’ve picked 10 people doing interesting and…

  3. Tools That Make Modern College Class Attendance Taking Easy

    Student demographics are changing from the days when college class attendance taking was common and attendance was fully mandatory in every…

  4. Cellphones in School are Essential to Learning, Say Students

    The students have spoken and one thing is clear: They view their mobile devices as an essential part of in-class learning. In early…

  5. Tips for Finding Good OER Content for Your Course

    Instructors are increasingly using Open Educational Resources (OER). But given the wide variety of materials available, how do you judge…

  6. Gamification Examples That Foster Competition in Students

    In an extract from our new teaching guide, Innovative and Unexpected Ways to Teach Your College Class, we look at a couple of great…

  7. Class Discussion: 3 Creative Uses of Top Hat

    In-class discussion forums sound good in theory, but in practice, they’re too often abandoned within your LMS as soon as the first thread…

  8. Teaching STEM Students By Bringing Organic Chemistry to Life

    Teaching STEM students often means rote memorization, a technique that can cause disengagement and resentment. Our latest innovative…

  9. OER vs. Textbooks: 3 Reasons the Future is OER

    Educators have good reasons for turning their backs on traditional textbooks. While textbooks have until now been an essential teaching…

  10. Yik Yak Successor Aims to Bring Mobile Chat Back to Campus

    Yik Yak, a college-based, largely anonymous, chat app shut down earlier this year after numerous accounts of cyberbullying, racism and bomb…

  11. An Interactive Anatomy Textbook With Heart

    You wouldn’t normally expect students to have passionate opinions about their textbooks, let alone rave about them. But when Professor…

  12. Dynamic Textbook Revisions Will Keep Your Classes Cutting Edge

    In 2006, when Pluto lost its status as a planet, textbooks didn’t help alleviate confusion over the galactic changeup. Many still counted…

  13. How Classroom Technology Affects Student Evaluations

    For decades, Carnegie Mellon University has been at the forefront of the development of technology-enhanced learning. But when…

  14. Pocket Science: How Smartphones are the Labs of the Future

    The historian Melvin Kranzberg reminded us—in the first of his “Laws of Technology”—that “technology is neither good nor evil.”…

  15. 4 Ways Of Teaching Stats in 1 Interactive Text

    Deborah Carroll is a Psychology professor at Southern Connecticut State University and contributing author of a chapter of Top Hat’s…

  16. Where VR in Education Has The Greatest Potential

    VR in education isn't just entertaining. It could become integral to a holistic, three-dimensional understanding of a particular subject. We…

  17. Canada’s Top Edtech Expert: Technology in Class is Inevitable

    Dr. Thierry Karsenti, Canada Research Chair on Technologies in Education, believes technology in class is inevitable and should be embraced…

  18. Student Attendance: An Evaluation of the Top Three Tracking Technologies

    It's essential for instructors to have an accurate attendance tracker. Here's our evaluation of the most popular technologies—polling, GPS…

  19. The Multiple Ways Interactive Texts Beat Hard Copy

    Professor Carl Braunlich explains the advantages that an interactive textbook has over print -- it can be kept up-to-date, for one.

  20. High Touch, High Tech Turns Hospitality Class Into Ready Learners

    How using Top Hat in a class of 200 hospitality students prepares them for a career in a sector that is already being changed by disruptive…