Teaching Associate Professor Elaine Bohórquez is an innovator. As the core professor for the Physiology Graduate Program at NC State, she prepares students for rewarding careers in medicine, dentistry and pharmacology. With team-based learning at the forefront, she strives to create courses that are tailored to NC State’s unique student body. Such courses require innovative […]
With the Fall academic term just weeks away, many educators are dissatisfied with the plans, level of clarity, and support they’ve received from their schools to teach online effectively, according to a new survey of more than 800 higher education faculty and instructional support staff. Read the article in Phil on EdTech to learn more.
Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors keeps his students engaged when teaching online. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more.
Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors uses technology to help close achievement gaps and increase participation. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more.
Toronto-based EdTech startup Top Hat has launched Top Hat Community, a new free communication tool that allows students and educators at high education institutions with digital spaces to easily communicate and collaborate. The Top Hat Community app is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Betakit newsletter to learn more.
Active learning courseware platform Top Hat has introduced Top Hat Community, an integrated communication tool that enables course announcements, real-time discussions, project collaborations, peer connections, community building and more, all in one centralized hub. Community is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Campus Technology newsletter to learn more.
MaRS Discovery District has officially launched Momentum, a new program designed to support high-growth Canadian companies with the potential to reach $100 million in revenue in the next five years. Top Hat has been announced as one of the 53 companies in the program’s “portfolio.” Read the article in The MaRs newsletter to learn more.
Colleges have frittered the summer away on audacious and absurd reopening plans. It’s time to embrace remote learning instead. Read the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education to learn more.
Top Hat has moved quickly to accelerate the rollout of new products to meet increased interest for its offerings. Since the lockdown began in March, the company has introduced a remote proctoring tool to ensure secure exams in an online environment, a community chat function and soon a virtual classroom video-conferencing tool optimized for a […]
Top Hat has been named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s POWER 50 list of change-makers and visionary Canadian companies. See the entire list here.
Establishing a sense of community or belonging in the classroom is important to developing trust among students and with their instructors. Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors establishes a sense of community in an online learning environment to foster student engagement and learning success. Read the article in Forbes to learn more.
During this crisis, Top Hat user Frank Spors was able to raise student engagement in his class to a 100% participation rate and a big part of that was because he created opportunities for students to stay engaged with their learning before, during, and after class. Read the article in Apple News to learn more.
The most important takeaways from Top Hat user Frank Spors’ shift to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article in Apple News to learn more.
In an effort to increase diversity and promote inclusion with employers, a number of major Canadian organizations are partnering with the Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) to open doors for Black tech workers including TD Bank, Bell Canada and Top Hat. Read the article in Canadian HR Reporter to learn more.
The Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) has partnered with eight Canadian companies, including Top Hat, TD Bank, Bell Canada, and Rogers, pledging “to create a more reflective, supportive and transformational space for Black tech professionals in Canada.” Read the article in BetaKit to learn more.
For Dan Maxwell’s students, their academic experience didn’t change much during the transition to remote learning, as he worked with them – and the company behind a leading remote-learning platform–to ensure their educational experience was as seamless as possible. Read the article in theUniversity of New Haven blog to learn more.
Here is some of the guidance Top Hat has been providing as instructors balance the need for student equity and access, while maintaining some semblance of business as usual during this time of dislocation. Read the article in eCampus News to learn more.
Before the crisis, Toronto’s Tophatmonocle Corp. (Top Hat) had already made a name in the academic publishing business. Its app lets instructors administer tests, grade assignments and provide digital textbooks and other course materials to three million students at 750 North American universities and colleges, all through their smartphones. Read the article in the Globe […]
Top Hat is an ed tech company that both a) fosters active learning through software that goes beyond typical Learning Management System (LMS) functionality, and b) provides services related to helping faculty move their courses online. Kudos to TopHat for launching this effort! Read the article in Phil on Ed Tech to learn more.
We are introducing Top Hat Basic—available free of charge—to enable professors to host synchronous online classes that engage students and make them feel connected to their learning. Read the article in Education Dive to learn more.