Trial and Error: Flipping the Flipped-Classroom Model
How Top Hat helps professors John Redden and Kristen Kimball engage their large class by using small group exercises: with a rethink of…
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Socrates and Technology: Where Higher Education is Headed
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains the direction higher education is heading—one that revives the Socratic Method…
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14 Things Faculty Say About Higher Ed Today
Top Hat’s 2018 Professor Pulse Survey finds that the biggest issues professors face are a lack of communication to and from university…
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41 EdTech Predictions for Higher Ed in 2019
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, believes technology will unlock student success—it permits active learning and keeps…
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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019
Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains how future classrooms will be built on collaboration and communication. Read the…
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How Universities Can Create Their Own Active-Learning Classrooms
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, believes active learning must exist beyond the classroom—students must be engaged not just…
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Higher Ed Faculty Need Tech that Supports Active Learning
Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, offers some strategies for how professors juggling the competing responsibilities of teaching…
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Where AI Could Take The Classroom
In the view of Eran Ben-Ari, chief product officer at Top Hat, artificial intelligence is doing exactly what it is supposed to – enhance…
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Meet the Winners of the Top Hat Innovative Educator Awards 2018
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…
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The Unconventional Way This Cloud-Based Startup Broke Into the Education Sphere
In this latest video from Entrepreneur Network partner MaRS Discovery District, entrepreneur Mike Silagadze talks about making his career…
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Courseware platform seeks a middle ground between publishers and OER
Top Hat strives to get professors to create their own textbooks and make them available free or for sale on its platform. Should traditional…
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Empower Teachers, Support Students: Top Hat CEO Mike Silagadze
“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…
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CIX Reveals Its 2017 List of Canada’s Top 20 Most Innovative Companies
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…
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Mobile Apps Gain Ground Against Handheld Clickers
For students and instructors, smartphone apps represent the opportunity to consolidate technologies, while at the same time allowing for…
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Top Hat Wins Pauli Award 2017 For Company of the Year
The 6th annual Pauli Awards recognize members of the Golden Triangle Angel Network, a company that invests in and mentors early-stage…
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Top Hat Launches Marketplace to Challenge Textbook Publishers
As a medium, print is incompatible with the blistering pace of change and new discoveries. Textbooks are outdated as soon as they go to…
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Top Hat Puts Two More Features In Their Cap For Back To School
Top Hat has added Secure Attendance, a next generation attendance platform built right into their app that can tell if a student is truly in…
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Top Hat Takes on Textbook Publishers with the Launch of its Content Marketplace
Top Hat has now launched its content marketplace out of beta. The idea here is to challenge the massive textbook industry that doesn’t…
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Top Hat Disrupts HigherEd Content Marketplace
Top Hat has launched an online marketplace for HigherEd content that provides professors with great tools to develop or assemble course…
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Top Hat Raises $9 million CAD To Disrupt Textbook Publishing Industry
Top Hat has raised $9 million CAD in its Series C follow-on funding from Toronto-based Leaders Fund. The company raised its $29.5 million…