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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.
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3 Ways to Bring Your Organic Chemistry Course to Life
Professor William Ogilvie’s textbook emphasizes a mechanistic approach that favors understanding and application over memorization
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Understanding Canadian Tech’s Leadership Turnover
Canadian tech leaders are getting sacked left and right. Some are replacing themselves, and some are being replaced. There’s Top Hat’s Mike Silagadze who stepped down as CEO right as the company had a near-majority stake acquired by investor Georgian partners. Then there’s Shopify, where CEO and co-founder Tobi Lütke sacked his CPO to take […]
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How to Give General Chemistry Students Confidence
Professor Franklin Ow was determined to remove barriers to success in his general chemistry course. Here’s how authoring a digital textbook helped improve equity and comprehension.
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Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is Edtech
The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Now, nearly a year since students were first sent home because of the coronavirus, a cohort of edtech companies is emerging, emboldened with millions in venture capital, ready to take […]
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Building a Virtual Equity-Driven Learning Community
In this byline by Lindsay Tan, a Top Hat customer and associate professor at Auburn University, she espouses the virtues of being a values-driven educator. Tan is focused on giving all her students the tools and confidence to succeed on their own terms — and to help create a cohort of professionals who are curious, […]
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How a Digital Textbook Helped Earn This Prof a Perfect Course Evaluation
Educator Nicole McNichols’ Top Hat textbook aligned with Gen Z’s learning style—plus, boosted student exam scores along with her own course evaluations
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3 Ways to Drive Reading Comprehension Using a Digital Textbook
Generation Z aren’t the type to read for fun—here’s how to address that in your real-time and self-paced college classes
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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO
Mike Silagadze, who in 2009 co-founded Top Hat, will be stepping away from the role on March 15 after serving as CEO for over a decade. His successor will be Joe Rohrlich, who previously served as chief revenue officer for Bazaarvoice, an e-commerce analytics company. Over his 11 years at Bazaarvoice, Rohrlich helped grow the […]
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Top Hat Co-Founder To Step Down as CEO as Edtech Company Embarks on Aggressive Growth Plan
Top Hat announced a US $130-million equity investment round, more than doubling the total amount it’s raised since launching in 2009. The funding, all from existing investor Georgian, follows a suite of acquisitions for the Toronto based firm — and caps co-founder Mike Silagadze’s tenure as CEO. That’s where Joe Rohrlich comes in. The new […]
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Georgian Doubles Down on Top Hat with $130 million USD Investment as Company Swaps CEOs
Longtime Top Hat investor Georgian Partners has committed an additional $130 million USD into Top Hat following a year of COVID-fueled changes and industry-disrupting acquisitions, culminating in new leadership. The investment, Georgian’s fourth in Top Hat, represents a continued and increasing commitment to the startup by the firm. The financing comes with news that founding […]
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Toronto Digital Textbook Publisher Top Hat Raises $130-Million From Georgian, Recruits New CEO
Top Hat has hired a new CEO and secured a US$130-million investment from its largest shareholder to pursue its strategy to transform the postsecondary textbook trade into a digital industry. The deal will help Top Hat position itself to be a leading disruptor in the education sector as publishers shift away from physical textbooks. Read […]
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Top Hat Embarks on Next Phase of Growth with $130M USD Series E Fundraise and New CEO
New funding and leadership will accelerate digital transformation of higher ed publishing industry and propel global growth
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The Pandemic Hit Colleges Hard, But Surfaced the Potential of Blended Learning
This joint op-ed between Mike Silagadze and Jeff Selingo makes the argument that we need to conceive digital education as complementing a new version of traditional education that better engages students and cultivates the distinctly human qualities of empathy, insight, and experience — all essential elements for success in the modern age. Instead of pitting […]
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3 Ways to Balance Your Workload With Student Needs
Innovative educators share their advice for putting student success at the forefront—without risking burnout
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Is COVID-19 Pushing Higher Ed Over the Technology Tipping Point?
In this byline by Top Hat’s own Mike DiGregorio, Senior Manager of Customer Onboarding and Instructional Design, shares the key insights from Top Hat’s most recent survey of 3,000 undergraduates: that students who agreed their instructors promoted active learning and collaboration were more likely to say they saw value in their higher ed investment and […]
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4 Ways to Serve Up Conversation Starters in Class
Students miss back-and-forth communication with their peers. Here’s how to fix that online.
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Lessons From Top Hat’s Acquisition Spree
Top Hat announced that it has acquired yet another business: Fountainhead Press. The acquisition marks Top Hat’s third scoop of a publishing company in the past 12 months as it pursues a digital content strategy designed to improve the traditional educational content industry. Top Hat’s whole business proposition is a subtweet to Zoom University: It […]
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Top Hat Continues To Amass Traditional Publishers With Acquisition of Fountainhead Press
Top Hat has acquired traditional textbook publisher Fountainhead Press, its third traditional publisher acquisition within the last year. The deal is a part of Top Hat’s larger strategy of disrupting the traditional print textbook market, which Top Hat pursued following its $72 million Series D funding round. Read the full article in BetaKit.
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Top Hat Acquires Third Publisher in Nine Months
Top Hat has expanded its library of titles for the third time since spring, acquiring Dallas, Texas-based publisher Fountainhead Press. The acquisition brings 500 new titles onto the platform from disciplines that include English, communication, math and science, and psychology. Read the full article in Quill and Quire.