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Trends in Higher Education

  1. My Education Began When I Realized We’re Not Taught to Teach

    For Lauren Herckis, an anthropologist at Carnegie Mellon University, change is the only constant in a teaching life. But if you listen and…

  2. The Average Print Textbook Goes Out of Date Every 3 Years

    Print textbooks have been posing problems for students for years. They’re static, outdated and come at hefty prices.1 Not to mention that…

  3. How to Help Students Overcome Impostor Syndrome

    No one is immune to impostor syndrome’s effects, and millennials, faced with constant comparisons to friends’ accomplishments on social…

  4. How a Riot, a Rock Band and Rutgers Led to the Rise of Richard Florida

    Top Hat is the active learning platform that makes it easy for professors to engage students and build comprehension before, during and…

  5. 3 Ways To Keep Your Teaching Nimble

    In this abridged extract from Top Hat’s new e-book, The Professor’s Guide to Agile Teaching, we look at three different ways that…

  6. How Blockbuster Helped Neil Garg Become a Better Prof

    Your first job, whatever it might be, is often a useful foundation, as Neil Garg, Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Los…

  7. Women in STEM, Role Models and The Crucial Role of Higher Ed

    Role models in education, industry and even television are needed to increase the percentage of women in STEM, say two front-line teaching…

  8. Learning Styles: The Ultimate Guide

    Learn more about the learning styles approach, and how you can use them as a basis to explore new teaching ideas and methods

  9. 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…

  10. Sir Ken Robinson: From Special Ed To Academic Royalty

    Knighted in 2003 for his service to the arts, Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools, charted an…

  11. Education Needs Radical Change: Sir Ken Robinson at Engage 2018

    In a highly memorable and humorous talk at Engage 2018, Top Hat’s conference for innovative higher educators, international education…

  12. How to Teach Generation Z in the Classroom

    The world seems to revolve around the Millennial generation. But Generation Z is serious-minded, success-focused and steeped in technology…

  13. OER Gets Serious: It’s Time To Take a Second Look

    As an instructor, you may have decided against using OER in the past because of concerns about the quality of the course material, or the…

  14. STEM Education Needs to Embrace Active Learning

    Undergraduate STEM education still has a long way to go before it catches up with modern teaching techniques such as student-centered…

  15. Textbooks Too Expensive, Say 90% of Profs in Survey

    Soaring price tags aren’t just hurting students—they’re hurting professors, too. The results from our 2018 Professor Pulse Survey show…

  16. Teaching Creative Writing as a Springboard For Students

    Many students have to complete required courses in creative writing. Here's how Linda Rodriguez, Professor of Caribbean Literature, Film,…

  17. Tenure-Seeking Professors Struggle to Balance Priorities

    Assistant and associate professors looking to secure tenure struggle to balance their competing priorities, according to a new survey of…

  18. Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?

    The inflation of post-secondary textbook pricing has surpassed that of the housing market, the cost of health care, and even college and…

  19. How The 5 Main Textbook Companies are Being Disrupted

    The past 40 years will be seen as a time when college textbook companies ignited, expanded beyond expectation, and then began to die. And…

  20. Digital Textbooks Erase Barriers For Teachers and Students Alike

    Authors of digital textbooks are short-circuiting the gatekeepers and saving their students money. In this extract from our…