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  1. How One Toronto Technology Company is Powering the Future of Online Education

    Top Hat has moved quickly to accelerate the rollout of new products to meet increased interest for its offerings. Since the lockdown began…

  2. Top Hat Named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s Sixth Annual Power 50 List

    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.

  3. How Teachers Can Build Communities In Online Classrooms

    Establishing a sense of community or belonging in the classroom is important to developing trust among students and with their instructors.…

  4. How One Professor Keeps His Students Engaged When Teaching Online

    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…

  5. What One Teacher Has Learned During Their Transition to Online Teaching

    The most important takeaways from Top Hat user Frank Spors’ shift to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read the article…

  6. Employers Partner Up To Open Doors for Black Tech Workers

    In an effort to increase diversity and promote inclusion with employers, a number of major Canadian organizations are partnering with the…

  7. Black Professionals in Tech Network Partner With Canadian Companies To Support Black Tech Workers

    The Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) has partnered with eight Canadian companies, including Top Hat, TD Bank, Bell Canada, and…

  8. Criminal Justice Professor Passionate about Creating Interactive and Engaging Online Classes

    For Dan Maxwell’s students, their academic experience didn’t change much during the transition to remote learning, as he worked with…

  9. 5 Options for Flexible and Empathetic Summative Assessments

    Here is some of the guidance Top Hat has been providing as instructors balance the need for student equity and access, while maintaining…

  10. Survival of the Unicorns: As the Economy Skidded, So Did Startups. Now They Need New Ideas, and Fast.

    Before the crisis, Toronto’s Tophatmonocle Corp. (Top Hat) had already made a name in the academic publishing business. Its app lets…

  11. Results from Top Hat’s COVID-19 Student Survey about Online Learning

    Top Hat is an ed tech company that both a) fosters active learning through software that goes beyond typical Learning Management System…

  12. Top Hat Launches Free Virtual Classroom Capabilities to Help Educators Better Engage and Motivate Higher Ed Students

    We are introducing Top Hat Basic—available free of charge—to enable professors to host synchronous online classes that engage students…

  13. Top Hat Launches Free Version of Platform as Universities Move to Online Learning

    Top Hat is launching a free version of its platform in addition to several new virtual classroom capabilities, in order to support…

  14. Three-Quarters of College Students Call Online Classes ‘Unengaging,’ Miss Campus Interactions

    In an April survey conducted by education technology vendor Top Hat, a quarter of college students said they’re undecided about…

  15. Toronto Tech Company Top Hat Buys Nelson Education’s Canadian University Textbook Division

    Canada’s largest education publisher, Nelson Education Ltd., has agreed to sell its domestic university textbook publishing business to…

  16. Educational Publisher Nelson Sells University Textbook Business to Top Hat

    Educational publisher Nelson has signed a deal to sell its domestic university textbook business to Top Hat and says it plans to focus on…

  17. Top Hat Acquires University Textbook Publishing Business in US $30-Million Deal

    The Toronto-based classroom tech company plans to focus on selling digital versions of the 400 textbooks it snapped up from Nelson…

  18. 5 Easy Ways to Infuse Learning Science into Remote Teaching

    Learn five tips from Andrea Hendricks on how to easily incorporate learning science into the remote classroom. These practices will help…

  19. How Top Hat is Connecting Teachers and Students Online

    Colleges and universities in many regions are moving to remote, online teaching to avoid the gathering of large crowds. This will be a…

  20. How COVID-19 May Forever Change the Way Professors Teach

    What impact will COVID-19 have on higher education beyond the next few months? Top Hat’s founder and CEO Mike Silagadze discusses some…