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Flipped Classroom

  1. Modernizing Organic Chemistry Textbooks With an Interactive-First Model

    Dr. Steven Forsey, the author of Top Hat’s Organic Chemistry textbook, shares why he wrote his own text and how he uses it to improve the student learning experience

  2. I Rejected Tenure to Focus on Fixing the Classroom

    Josh Eyler walked away from a tenured position, choosing instead to pursue his passion: affecting the way professors think about teaching. Now, he is focused on working with faculty to implement evidence-based teaching strategies that help students succeed

  3. How Interactivity Will Boost Learning in BVT’s Social Psychology Text

    Upgrading a print textbook to contain quizzes, surveys and checkpoints is far from a gimmick, according to psychology textbook author Stephen Franzoi. That’s why he’s transferring his current textbook, Social Psychology, to Top Hat’s digital platform. Franzoi builds self-report questionnaires into each of his chapters that students can take and then use to compare them […]

  4. 4 Tips To Build An Agile Classroom, Courtesy of Engage 2018

    All of our speakers at Engage 2018, our yearly Chicago conference for innovative educators, took the theme of the agile classroom to heart

  5. How I Taught This: Flipping the Chemistry Classroom

    It didn’t take Greg Domski long to find his calling. Within two weeks of starting his undergraduate education, he veered off the pre-med track to focus on chemistry. The switch, says Domski, can be traced back to a talented professor who had a knack for helping students understand chemistry’s significance in the wider world. Domski […]

  6. Class Activities Inspired By Bloom’s Taxonomy: Your Step-by-Step Guide

    An important step in developing your course content is determining how it will be delivered to students. How do you select a diverse range of classroom activities that will keep students interested throughout your lecture? With Bloom’s Taxonomy, class activities are easy to structure. Try using this step by step guide—cribbed from our new planning […]

  7. Why Do Innovative Educators Use Active Learning? Because It Works

    Professors are increasingly leaving traditional lectures behind and making their teaching more effective by getting students to interact with course content.

  8. 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.