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Student Engagement

  1. Top Hat Awards Three Students $10,000 Scholarships

    Top Hat scholars Hope Long of the University of North Georgia, Patryk Tomaszkiewicz of Texas A&M University and Nicole Blinn of Dalhousie…

  2. Tear Up Current Economics Textbooks? Sure…For The Right Reasons

    A Vanderbilt University professor wades into debate over the utility of current economics textbooks

  3. $20,000 Top Hat Scholarship Goes to Michigan State University Student

    Environmental economics student Emma Rice hopes to work at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Here, she talks…

  4. Ohio University Student Wins $50,000 Top Hat Scholarship

    First generation student Delia Grantham overcame early life struggles to embrace her studies and college experience

  5. How Education Helped This Author Escape a Decade of Abuse

    There's far too much silence around domestic abuse, says bestselling author, speaker and UofT scholarship award winner Samra Zafar

  6. How to Help Introverts Thrive in the Classroom

    Are you an introvert? Roughly one third to a half of the population feel most capable or alive in quiet environments. Author and speaker…

  7. 4 Professors Share: What I Wish I Had Known

    How do you know if your teaching practice is effective—and whether you’re just teaching a certain way because that’s how your…

  8. How to Engage Students in Active Learning

    You’ve created new lesson plans and are experimenting with active learning in the classroom. The problem is, your students are completely…

  9. Change—and Persistence—Helps This Award-Winning Mathematician Thrive

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

  10. Classroom Response Software Lifts Engagement and Grades: Study

    In-class classroom response software, including Top Hat Classroom, has a profoundly positive effect on engagement—and a knock-on effect on…

  11. Ethos, Pathos, Logos: How Rhetoric Can Improve Your Teaching

    The three rhetorical appeals — pathos, ethos, logos — were defined by Aristotle hundreds of years ago, but they’re just as relevant…

  12. Human Anatomy Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading human anatomy textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  13. Sociology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading sociology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  14. How to Manage Math Anxiety in the Classroom

    Video: Florida Atlantic University’s Burcu Karabina on helping liberal arts students overcome their fear of math

  15. How an Unlikely Academic Ended up Running a Groundbreaking Harvard Lab

    Todd Rose—bestselling author of The End of Average—dropped out of high school because he couldn’t fit the mold. Then he realized that…

  16. How To Motivate Students: Some Different Approaches

    It’s an age-old problem faced by teachers: how to motivate students. While research has found a correlation between motivation and…

  17. In the Search for Student Engagement, Fun Goes a Long Way

    “The level of engagement in your students and your classrooms is not fixed. Yes, students will arrive in your classroom with varying…

  18. When Faculty Write Or Adopt OER, Student Outcomes Soar

    Jasmine Roberts, a professor of communications at The Ohio State University, has a story to tell about how she ended up adopting open…

  19. Easy Ways to Personalize Instruction for Student Success

    Jenel Cavazos and Greg Kitzmiller agree: if there’s one classroom tactic that’s effective at personalizing the student experience in…

  20. Classroom Management Techniques: 13 Ideas From A Prof

    Psychology professor Jenel Cavazos shares some classroom management techniques for building rapport, keeping students on task and organizing…