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.
Top Hat to offer five scholarships to exceptional students, for a total prize value equivalent to $100,000 USD.
Professors are increasingly concerned about ]challenges that are calling into question the economics of higher education.
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?
The milestone more than doubles the original goal of generating $500,000 in savings.
More than 114,000 students on all eight Indiana University campuses will have access to Top Hat.
It is Canada's most coveted award for young business leaders.
This enables 1,100 instructors and 14,000 students to have access to low-cost or free interactive course materials.
Ben-Ari will oversee product strategy, development, and expansion, focused on drivingrevenue opportunities.
The partnership grants educators at member institutions access to Top Hat’s full range of tools.
It honours 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the four years.
OHIO students will realize an estimated savings of $500,000 per semester through the successful adoption of OER.
“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.
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, […]
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.
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.
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
Top Hat has now launched its content marketplace out of beta. The idea here is to challenge the massive textbook industry that doesn’t have any qualms about charging students hundreds of dollars for a book and a few (generally disappointing and hard to use) online tools and addenda. Full story on TechCrunch.
Top Hat has launched an online marketplace for HigherEd content that provides professors with great tools to develop or assemble course materials and share them, for free or at a premium. Students get the benefit of up-to-date, interactive, fully course aligned materials. Textbook publishers selling high-priced books should be worried. Full story on GettingSmart