Professors have always had to contend with cheating in college, but thanks to the growing use of technology in the classroom, students are finding new, inventive methods—they’re recording and playing back what faculty members type. The practice, known as keylogging, made headlines last month when a student at the University of Iowa was arrested for […]
Filmed in Chicago at Engage 2017, Malgosia Green’s keynote kicked off Day 2 of the conference. With the rapid rise of modern technology, the challenges that university campuses are facing have changed. Yet most higher education institutions are slow to evolve and remain mired in old ways of thinking. The result: unhappy and disengaged students. […]
If only preventing fake degrees and fraudulent instructors were as easy as unearthing this University of Rochester prankster, who recently masqueraded as a chemistry professor and announced that over half of the class was failing. (A few minutes later, the real professor walked into the lecture hall, demanding: “Who the hell are you?”) The difficult […]
At the Engage 2017 conference in Chicago, guests enjoyed an array of sessions that touched on topics ranging from active learning to the future of textbooks. Here are some of the most important things we learned about innovation and storytelling. Higher education can learn from Silicon Valley Universities that have bureaucratic and slow-moving decision-making processes […]
In the past two decades, centers for teaching and learning have popped up at just about every post-graduate school in North America. But for most of their history, universities and colleges were institutions where disciplinary expertise was established and ultimately disseminated. Teaching—and the study of how students learn—was an afterthought. By the early 1960s, the […]
After a federal judge stayed President Trump’s travel ban blocking entry from several Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, some students stranded abroad have now returned to the U.S.
2017 educational trends include being innovative, doing less with more and looking for new sources for resources and inspiration
With more than 21,000 responses collected, Top Hat is proud to share the results of the 2016 Professor Pulse survey — a global survey that taps into professors’ thoughts on the current state of higher education. Check out the 2016 Professor Pulse Now’s your chance to contribute to the 2017 Professor Pulse! Whether you’re a […]