Why It’s Time to Reframe Your Approach Towards Student Feedback
Feedback has traditionally been backwards-looking. The feedforward framework is a more authentic, tailored alternative.
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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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Lessons From a Year of Pandemic Learning: Survey of 3,052 Higher Ed Students Reveals Their Expectations for Instruction and Educational Value in the Fall 2021 Academic Term
Student sentiments about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: what's worked, what hasn't, and their expectations in the next normal.
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Taylor & Francis and Top Hat Announce Partnership to Support Higher Ed Educators and Students with Engaging, Interactive Course Content
Four of Taylor & Francis’ most popular textbooks will be converted into digital interactive courseware on Top Hat’s proven active learning courseware platform Educators who adopt these textbooks will have the flexibility to bring active learning to life for students in both in-person and online classrooms, with tools to take attendance, present slides, host discussions, […]
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Hanging Up the Hat: Why Top Hat’s Mike Silagadze Is Handing the CEO Job to Someone Else
‘I just sort of felt like, okay, if I do hand over the reins, Top Hat will continue to grow’
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9 Ways to Re-Energize Your Classroom Right Now
In many college classrooms, engagement rates have plummeted steadily since the start of the term. Here’s how to rejuvenate your course midway through the semester.
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The Ultimate Guide to Culturally Responsive Teaching
Creating a culturally responsive classroom will help diverse students feel seen in your college courses
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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