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Innovation in Teaching

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    Top Hat Expands Digital Textbook Offerings With Fountainhead Press Acquisition

    The deal adds 500 textbooks to Top Hat’s growing collection of high-quality titles

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    The Ultimate Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

    Traditional textbooks no longer make the grade in today’s online learning environment. Here’s why open source textbooks are the way of…

  3. Print Textbook Sales Are On The Rise—Why That Will Only Be Temporary

    Digital, interactive textbooks offer collaboration and accountability to Gen Z students who crave dynamic, customizable learning…

  4. 5 Inspirational Women in Higher Education

    Recognizing and honoring women who are making real change in academia today

  5. Stephen Buckles, Lead Author of Top Hat’s 3 Intro Course for Economics Textbooks

    How this Vanderbilt University professor with a career in economics research and teaching used Top Hat to best engage his students in course…

  6. George Griffin, Lead Author of Top Hat’s Effective Public Speaking Textbook

    How this Keiser University professor used Top Hat to help his students overcome stage fright

  7. How Top Hat Intro Courses Are Changing The Way Students Learn

    This end-to-end course solution makes teaching effective and engaging, with built-in learning assessments and customizable course materials

  8. Joseph Crivello: Co-Lead Author of Top Hat’s Anatomy and Physiology in Context

    This University of Connecticut professor authored a Top Hat textbook to relay complex anatomical concepts to his students

  9. Meaghan Altman: Lead Author of Top Hat’s Introduction to Psychology textbook

    How this UC Merced professor uses Top Hat to create a more interactive learning environment

  10. How Professors Should Evaluate New Course Content

    All higher education textbooks and course content are different, and with so many options to choose from in today’s textbook publishing…

  11. 2 Profs on the Benefits of a Course Refresh

    In this abridged extract from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at a pair of professors who broke down and…

  12. How to Use Data in Class To Achieve Better Learning Outcomes

    In this abridged extract from our new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at how technology has made it easier for…

  13. A Textbook That Teaches Students How To Learn

    On-demand and interactive media is now the norm for Generation Z students coming into their first year of college—in fact, Generation…

  14. 10 Team Building Activities for Students

    Team building isn’t just for the corporate workplace — it can also be used in the classroom to encourage collaboration, problem-solving…

  15. Top Hat in Action: Implementing a Digital History Textbook

    Professor Jonathan Bean helped keep his students accountable by switching to a digital textbook—and was able to adapt and build upon it…

  16. What To Do If Students Don’t Read The Textbook

    One answer to making sure students actually buy and read their textbooks before class is to write it yourself. And if that's not enough,…

  17. Online Teaching Strategies You Can Adopt in the Classroom

    Teaching in-person and teaching online might appear vastly different, but by adopting some best practices from online teaching, you can save…

  18. Online Exam Tools: Some Popular Technologies

    There’s more to testing than paper. And as schools demand assessment technology that is secure, accessible and respects the integrity of…

  19. Writing Interactive Textbooks: 4 Things We’ve Learned

    Ever wondered what writing interactive textbooks might be like? This summer, we sat down with professors who’ve gone through the process…

  20. When Science Students Experiment Outside the Lab, They Thrive

    Over her decade of teaching at the University of Southern California, and now as the director of USC’s Environmental Studies Program,…