Canada’s largest education publisher, Nelson Education Ltd., has agreed to sell its domestic university textbook publishing business to Toronto technology company Tophatmonocle Corp. in a deal that heralds a hastening of the shift to online education here. Read the article in the Globe and Mail to learn more.
Educational publisher Nelson has signed a deal to sell its domestic university textbook business to Top Hat and says it plans to focus on the kindergarten-to-Grade 12 market. Read the article in the Toronto Star to learn more.
The Toronto-based classroom tech company plans to focus on selling digital versions of the 400 textbooks it snapped up from Nelson Education, Canada’s largest education publisher. Read the article in The Logic to learn more.
Learn five tips from Andrea Hendricks on how to easily incorporate learning science into the remote classroom. These practices will help engage students and improve outcomes throughout the online learning process. Read the article in Campus Technology to learn more.
Colleges and universities in many regions are moving to remote, online teaching to avoid the gathering of large crowds. This will be a stressful time for students and teachers, so Top Hat is providing its platform free of charge to those making the change. Watch the full video on MaRS Magazine to learn more.
What impact will COVID-19 have on higher education beyond the next few months? Top Hat’s founder and CEO Mike Silagadze discusses some potential long-term effects. Read the article in Hacker Noon to learn more.
Asked about how prepared online teaching platform Top Hat is for a swell of new users, senior director of communications and events Joel Marans similarly said, “Bring it on.” Read the article in The Toronto Star to learn more.
Top Hat, won’t just be remembered for pivoting amid disruption. After redesigning its classroom engagement offering to meet the needs of virtual teaching, the company announced that it will be providing the product to educators and students for free for the Winter 2020 semester, giving its target market a helping hand as it struggles to […]
Growing numbers of colleges and universities are shuttering their doors to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In turn, educators have had to respond by taking their courses online within a matter of days. Many of them lack experience teaching online and are now scrambling to figure out how to make remote classes work for their […]
Mike Silagadze, CEO of Toronto-based digital textbook provider Tophatmonocle Corp., said he sees this as “an opportunity to reach customers.” Read the article in The Globe and Mail to learn more.
Colleges and universities in many regions are moving to remote, online teaching to avoid the gathering of large crowds. This will be a stressful time for students and teachers, so education software company Top Hat is providing its platform free of charge for the Winter 2020 semester. Read the article in The MaRs newsletter to learn more.
Top Hat has raised $72 million CAD ($55 million USD) in a Series D funding round to help the company accelerate its goal of disrupting the traditional print textbook market. Read the full article from Betakit to learn more.
As classrooms close to limit the spread of the coronavirus, educators scramble to move learning online. Read the article in Tech Crunch to learn more.
Top Hat, an ed tech company that specializes in creating open educational resources (OER), announced that it raised $55 million in Series D funding. Top Hat said in a statement that the funding will help it expand partnerships with academic publishers and support its efforts to help instructors create and use digitized textbooks and OER. […]
Top Hat, announces it has raised $55 million in Series D funding co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital. All of the company’s previous investors, including Union Square Ventures, Emergence Capital and Leaders Fund, also participated in this round, which also includes debt financing from BMO Technology and Innovation Banking Group. Read the article from […]
Top Hat has inked deals with Fountainhead Press and Bluedoor Publishing to convert all the publishers’ content into digital materials over the next three years. And to help Top Hat accelerate more of those partnerships, the Toronto-based company has raised $55 million in a Series D round, led by Georgian Partners and iNovia Capital. Read […]
The latest investment for Top Hat was co-led by existing investors Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital. Top Hat has raised over US$104 million, according to Crunchbase, and aims to use the new funding to expand its offerings in digital textbooks and course material. Read the article in The Logic to learn more.
Top Hat wants to help textbook publishers bring their content from print-only to digitally palatable. And, since it’s 2020, add fully customizable and interactive lessons to that mix, too. Read the article in Crunchbase News to learn more.
“The entire academic textbook publishing space has been facing double-digit revenue declines,” Mr. Silagadze said. “Top Hat is offering this cure [to traditional publishers] and turning it into a [cloud software] business.” Read the article in The Globe and Mail to learn more. (Please note that there is a paywall for this article.)
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