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Student Engagement

  1. Public Speaking Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading public speaking textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  2. General Chemistry Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading general chemistry textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  3. Creating a ‘Small-Classroom’ Feeling Matters—And Tech is the Solution

    Cultivating student engagement remains of paramount importance. Creating community, with the help of educational software, is key to improving learning outcomes.

  4. 73% of Colleges Are Planning Active Learning Classrooms by 2020

    Students are changing—which means courses must start changing too

  5. 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 University say the active learning platform has made them more engaged in class, increased their confidence and GPA and eliminated physical boundaries to their education

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

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

  7. $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 about how the Top Hat Scholarship will help her pursue her dreams

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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 Susan Cain’s research centers around introverts, as the co-founder of the Quiet Revolution, a movement devoted to showcasing introverts’ strengths. She is also the author of Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths […]

  11. 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 professors did it? In the spirit of reinvention—and remembering the ‘growth mindset,’ where making mistakes is an important part of getting better, here are four professors and how they decided to tweak their initial […]

  12. 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 resistant to the idea. Here’s how to engage students in active learning—even if they are initially reluctant. Active learning teaching strategies are effective teaching and learning methods. But that doesn’t mean everybody understands the […]

  13. 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 their lives. In this instalment, mathematician Dr. Priya Subramanian describes her cross-discipline and international quest to be one of the “why people”: and why that one more speculative e-mail sent in the middle of […]

  14. 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 grades, a new study in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching says. The study, authored by Andrew J. Petto, Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University […]

  15. 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 today

  16. Human Anatomy Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading human anatomy textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  17. Sociology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading sociology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  18. 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

  19. 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 being different could be his ticket to the Ivy League

  20. 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 academic achievement, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to inspiring your students to engage in course material. But, with a bit of effort, you can effectively motivate different types of learners and, ultimately, […]