Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, uses his Anthropology background to solve real customer problems—including growing user engagement and product differentiation. Read the full article from Medium to learn more.
Josh Guttman, Regional Vice President of Sales at Top Hat, outlines the must-haves in any sales role: authenticity, values and fighting the status quo. Listen to the full interview from John Barrows to learn more.
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains how Top Hat disrupts higher education on three levels—students, professors and textbook publishers—to create an agile learning environment. Listen to the full interview from CanInnovate to learn more.
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, acknowledges the benefits and criticisms of incorporating open educational resources into higher education. Read the full article from Education Dive to learn more.
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, believes that active learning cannot be restricted to the classroom but instead needs to transcend it. Read the full article from EdTech Magazine to learn more.
How Top Hat helps professors John Redden and Kristen Kimball engage their large class by using small group exercises: with a rethink of their instructional design, their students are more engaged. Read the full article from Inside Higher Ed to learn more.
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains the direction higher education is heading—one that revives the Socratic Method and emphasizes technology and data. Read the full article from Getting Smart to learn more.
Top Hat’s 2018 Professor Pulse Survey finds that the biggest issues professors face are a lack of communication to and from university administration, and student apathy. Read the full article from eCampus News to learn more.
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, believes technology will unlock student success—it permits active learning and keeps students engaged regardless of cohort size. Read the full article from eCampus News to learn more.
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains how future classrooms will be built on collaboration and communication. Read the full article from EdSurge to learn more.
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, believes active learning must exist beyond the classroom—students must be engaged not just in lectures, but before and after class. Read the full article from EdTech Magazine to learn more.
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, offers some strategies for how professors juggling the competing responsibilities of teaching and research can create active learning lesson plans. Read the full article from EdTech Digest to learn more.
In the view of Eran Ben-Ari, chief product officer at Top Hat, artificial intelligence is doing exactly what it is supposed to – enhance and strengthen the work that students, teachers and administrators already do. Read the full article from the Globe & Mail to learn more.
Every year at the Engage conference, we honor some of the most exciting work done by the professors who use the Top Hat platform. From saving students time and money, via creating content and organizing workflows for remedial students, to supporting and promoting their colleagues’ work in technology adoption, each of our award winners have […]
In this latest video from Entrepreneur Network partner MaRS Discovery District, entrepreneur Mike Silagadze talks about making his career pivot. Watch the full video from Entrepreneur to hear more about Top Hat’s journey..
Top Hat strives to get professors to create their own textbooks and make them available free or for sale on its platform. Should traditional textbook publishers be concerned?
“Top Hat is providing a tech platform that gives professors a way to adopt open source content at a fraction of the price, or maybe or even free.” Read the full Techvibes interview with Top Hat’s CEO on how classrooms are being reinvented in the 21st century.
Top Hat has been named as one of the top 20 most innovative tech companies in Canada for 2017, based on factors like product and service offering, depth of management, market opportunity, and business model. Full story on Betakit.
For students and instructors, smartphone apps represent the opportunity to consolidate technologies, while at the same time allowing for more complex answers than A-through-D questions. Read more in Inside Higher Ed about how Top Hat’s smartphone app is replacing the physical clicker.
The 6th annual Pauli Awards recognize members of the Golden Triangle Angel Network, a company that invests in and mentors early-stage companies. This year’s Company of the Year award went to Top Hat, which was founded in Waterloo. Full story on CTV Kitchener.