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Harleen Dhami

Harleen Dhami is a Senior Growth Marketing Specialist for Top Hat. During her tenure at Top Hat, she's interviewed acclaimed educators including Dr. Bryan Dewsbury and Dr. Christopher Emdin. She works to amplify the stories of both faculty and students alike through case studies, blog posts and ebooks. Harleen holds a Master's Degree in Professional Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2020, she was the recipient of a Gold Quill Award of Merit presented by the International Association of Business Communicators.

  1. 4 Professors Share: What I Wish I Had Known

    How do you know if your teaching practice is effective—and whether you’re just teaching a certain way because that’s how your…

  2. Podcast: Josh Guttman, Regional VP of Sales, Top Hat

    Josh Guttman, Regional Vice President of Sales at Top Hat, outlines the must-haves in any sales role: authenticity, values and fighting the…

  3. Podcast: How to Create Agile and Active Learning Experiences

    Eran Ben-Ari, Chief Product Officer at Top Hat, explains how Top Hat disrupts higher education on three levels—students, professors and…

  4. Taking OER To The Next Level at SXSW EDU 2019

    Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, acknowledges the benefits and criticisms of incorporating open educational resources into…

  5. Active-Learning Classrooms, 7 Tips for Higher Education

    Mike Silagadze, CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, believes that active learning cannot be restricted to the classroom but instead needs to…

  6. Human Anatomy Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading human anatomy textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. Sociology Textbooks: Which Is The Best?

    How leading sociology textbooks fare in the higher ed marketplace

  14. Top Hat Receives 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Leadership Award

    Top Hat has for the third consecutive year been recognized with a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Leadership Award.

  15. 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…

  16. Top Hat Announces Annual Scholarship Program to Recognize Innovative Teaching Practices and Celebrate Student Leadership, Growth and Success

    Top Hat to offer five scholarships to exceptional students, for a total prize value equivalent to $100,000 USD.

  17. Most Professors Agree: the Economics of Higher Education in America Are Uncertain

    Professors are increasingly concerned about ]challenges that are calling into question the economics of higher education.

  18. 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…

  19. Ohio University and Top Hat Partnership Saves Students More Than $1 Million in Textbook Costs

    The milestone more than doubles the original goal of generating $500,000 in savings.

  20. Indiana University Expands Partnership with Top Hat to Provide Students with Best-in-Class Learning Tools at No Cost

    More than 114,000 students on all eight Indiana University campuses will have access to Top Hat.