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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. 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.

  2. 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 and research can create active learning lesson plans. Read the full article from EdTech Digest to learn more.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 textbook publishers be concerned?

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Top Hat Co-founder and CEO Named One of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40

    It is Canada's most coveted award for young business leaders.

  9. UBC Faculty of Arts and Top Hat Partner to Expand Access to Higher Education

    This enables 1,100 instructors and 14,000 students to have access to low-cost or free interactive course materials.

  10. Top Hat Hires Chief Product Officer Eran Ben-Ari to Lead Next Wave of Product Innovation and Customer Success

    Ben-Ari will oversee product strategy, development, and expansion, focused on drivingrevenue opportunities.

  11. Top Hat Partners with Unizin Consortium to Bring Affordable and Accessible Digital OER Content to 25 Universities

    The partnership grants educators at member institutions access to Top Hat’s full range of tools.

  12. Top Hat Named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™

    It honours 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the four years.

  13. Ohio University and Top Hat Partner to Reduce Textbook Costs for Students

    OHIO students will realize an estimated savings of $500,000 per semester through the successful adoption of OER.

  14. 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 even free.” Read the full Techvibes interview with Top Hat’s CEO on how classrooms are being reinvented in the 21st century.

  15. 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 offering, depth of management, market opportunity, and business model. Full story on Betakit.

  16. 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 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.

  17. Top Hat Continues 2017 Momentum With New Office in Sydney Australia

    TORONTO–Top Hat, provider of the leading cloud-based teaching platform for higher education, today announced the opening of its Sydney, Australia office with Jacquie Dwyer joining as Vice President of APAC. The office is the first market expansion for the company outside of North America. The new outpost will be focused on sales and customer success, […]

  18. 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 companies. This year’s Company of the Year award went to Top Hat, which was founded in Waterloo. Full story on CTV Kitchener.

  19. 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 press. Top Hat is responding by launching a digital textbook marketplace and securing $7.5 million from Leaders Fund. Full story in EdSurge.

  20. 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 class. Their team has evaluated all the ways students could possibly circumvent an attendance app and developed an accurate, secure solution. Full story on Nibletz