The One Thing AI Cannot Do for Your Students
More than 10 million annotations in a single academic year. Two consecutive semesters of over 5 million, a first in the history of Hypothesis, and it is happening at a […]
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How to Increase College Reading Completion in 2026
Reading Assignments Aren’t the Problem. Reading Participation Is. Every college instructor knows the feeling. You carefully select a chapter, article, or research paper that will help students understand a key […]
How to Evaluate Social Annotation Tools in 2026
Higher education has a reading engagement problem. Students are assigned articles, textbook chapters, research papers, and primary sources every week, yet instructors often have little visibility into how students interact […]
How Social Annotation Improves Online Learning
What Are Social Annotation Platforms? Social annotation platforms are educational technology tools that allow students and instructors to highlight, comment on, question, and discuss course materials directly in the margins […]
AI Resistant Learning: How Social Annotation Keeps Students Genuinely Engaged
There’s a version of the AI problem in higher education that doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s not plagiarism, exactly. It’s something more structural: the growing gap between what students […]
How Can Instructors Design Active Learning Assignments in the LMS?
In many LMS-based courses, students spend most of their time consuming information quietly and independently. They read assignments alone, watch lectures alone, complete quizzes alone, and submit work alone. Even […]
What Is Annotation Based Learning?
For many students, reading in higher education can feel isolated. They are assigned articles, textbook chapters, PDFs, and research materials with the expectation that learning will happen independently before discussion […]
Why Students Stop Reading — and What Actually Brings Them Back
For many instructors, the problem is no longer finding reading materials. The problem is getting students to meaningfully engage with them. Across higher education, faculty are seeing the same patterns: […]
Why More Professors Are Replacing Discussion Boards with Social Annotation
For years, discussion boards were considered a standard part of online learning. They gave students a place to respond, reflect, and participate asynchronously. But for many instructors, especially those teaching […]
Social Annotation in Action: How Faculty Inspire Students to Read, Write, and Think More Deeply
For many faculty, the challenge is no longer simply assigning reading. The challenge is helping students actually engage with it. In an age shaped by distraction, AI-generated summaries, and surface-level […]