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Innovation in Teaching

  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. How to Email Your Professor: A Student’s Guide

    Setting expectations for how and when students communicate with you will lighten your workload and create a more open and transparent…

  4. How to Keep Your Presence Alive Amidst a Sea of Black Zoom Boxes

    Zoom can feel distant and impersonal. Here’s how eight educators maintain their presence and build connections online.

  5. How These 8 Educators Maintain Flexibility in Their Online Classes

    In our recent #ProfChats, educators share how they incorporate flexibility and empathy into their courses to ensure students are engaged

  6. 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

  7. 9 Instructors on the Importance of Teaching With Empathy

    A panel of distinguished educators discuss teacher presence, basic needs, self-care and more in part two of our #ProfChats roundup

  8. 5 Inspirational Women in Higher Education

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

  9. 4 Ways To Master the Start of A New Semester

    How the best college professors address common misconceptions and set expectations in their classrooms at the beginning of each new semester

  10. Using Self-Reflection To Become A Better Educator

    The art of teaching is naturally an iterative process. Even without formal reviews or reflection, the things we learn as educators while in…

  11. 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…

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    How this Binghamton University professor uses Top Hat to create a more interactive learning environment

  15. Why Giving Students Personalized Attention Is a Must for All Professors

    Ohio University professor Laura M. Harrison on why investing in ways to support students should be the priority of any higher education…

  16. 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…

  17. How a ‘Slacker’ Ended up Leading a World-Class Theoretical Physics Institute

    In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in…

  18. 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…

  19. Grit and a Gift for Engineering Pave a Way for Women in STEM

    Gina Cody, the first woman to have an engineering school named after her in Canada, worked relentlessly to distinguish herself in a…

  20. Why It’s Time to Take a Course in Active Learning

    If time travelers from the far future visit our era and look at the history of education, they’ll see a strange blip. Why are students…