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Online Teaching and Learning

  1. How to Modernize Your Curriculum with Interactive Textbooks

    Modernize your classroom with interactive textbooks that keep costs low, integrate with LMS, are current and keep students engaged all…

  2. 8 Essential Active Learning Strategies for Your Next Class

    Engaging examples designed for in-person, hybrid or fully online courses

  3. The Best Apps for Building Community in Higher Ed [Updated 2022]

    Support student connections with these mobile apps. You’ll be able to improve asynchronous interactions and enable file and media sharing…

  4. 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,…

  5. Diagnostic Assessment Design to Boost Student Learning In Any Online Course

    Consider these tips when designing diagnostic assessments to meet student needs—applicable across any discipline

  6. 11 Ways to Show Students You’re Looking Out for Them

    Building connections and community in your classroom are essential to ensuring students are engaged in learning in all modalities

  7. 8 Do’s and Don’ts For A Great First Week of Class

    Check out these tips on introductions, icebreakers and first lectures

  8. How To Master the First Week of Class: 8 Tips for Professors

    Set the stage for a successful semester by making a great first impression on your students

  9. When and How to Use Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Teaching Methods

    Consider your learning objectives, your students and the merits of synchronous versus asynchronous teaching to guide your approach

  10. 5 Teaching Strategies For Any Hybrid Class

    Remote teaching continues to give faculty an opportunity to rethink student engagement and accommodation. Here are the top hybrid teaching…

  11. Three Professors on Uplevelling Their Courses With Top Hat

    Maintaining attention, delivering lectures in any modality and getting instant feedback are what drew these educators to Top Hat

  12. 10 Essential Icebreaker Activities for Any Online Course [+ Free List of 50 Icebreakers]

    Reduce student anxiety and uncertainty with these virtual icebreakers

  13. 9 Ways to Re-Energize Your Classroom Right Now

    In many college classrooms, engagement rates have plummeted steadily since the start of the term. Here’s how to rejuvenate your course…

  14. 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

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. How to Spark Great In-Class Discussions: 6 Ideas That Work

    Class discussions are a great way to gain insights into student comprehension, encourage community building and explore new ideas. Here are…

  18. Why Staying Connected Is Important in Asynchronous Classes

    Being mindful of what gets put on students’ plates has boosted GPAs in Joel Stake’s biology classes, even with the transition to…

  19. 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…

  20. The Ultimate Guide to Universal Design for Learning

    UDL emphasizes student accessibility and ensures course delivery is tailored to create customized learning experiences