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.
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 […]
Innovative educators share their advice for putting student success at the forefront—without risking burnout
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 […]
Students miss back-and-forth communication with their peers. Here’s how to fix that online.
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 […]
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.
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.
Top Hat is stepping up efforts to transform the postsecondary textbook industry into a digital business with the purchase of Fountainhead Press, its third acquisition in the past year. This follows its purchase of the university textbook publishing business from Nelson, Canada’s third largest publisher, and the acquisition of Minneapolis-based publisher bluedoor. Founder Mike Silagadze […]
Acquisition brings more than 500 titles used at 400 institutions onto Top Hat’s proven active learning courseware platform Fountainhead’s high-quality academic content will be fully integrated into Top Hat’s all-in-one teaching platform, enabling educators who adopt these titles to deliver transformative student-centric learning experiences that change the nature of the way students learn Fountainhead Press […]
eCampus News shared the key highlights from the Top Hat Field Report: Higher Ed Students Grade the Fall 2020 Semester report, which surveyed 3,412 higher education students in the United States and Canada. The main themes highlighted in this piece are the insights on student experiences and challenges adjusting to online learning. It also sheds […]
A roundup of education books from 2020 that range from professional development to emotional intelligence
Western University of Health Sciences professor Frank Spors credits audience response systems like Top Hat for bringing new life into his teaching and fostering the kind of two-way engagement that every instructor hopes to achieve. In fact, he spent a year tracking a group of his graduate students and found that, since using Top Hat, […]
Top Hat was highlighted in this list of rising tech companies worth pursuing a career with. For this list, Business Insider chose ‘growth startups’ and paid close attention to how these businesses were affected by the pandemic shutdowns. See the full list in Business Insider.
Mike Silagadze, co-founder and CEO of Top Hat, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss what leadership in the business world might look like post-pandemic and how Top Hat has managed the COVID-19 crisis. See the interview on BNN Bloomberg.
Here’s why education technology—and the digital courseware it supports—is the ultimate replacement for outdated teaching methods
Increase active learning and online discussions in any real-time or asynchronous class
The pandemic was not kind to the economy, but some Toronto-based businesses, including Top Hat, were uniquely positioned to thrive during these particularly chaotic times. See the full list in Toronto Life.
Top Hat’s recent survey of 1,500 faculty found that the reopening of campuses post-pandemic won’t necessarily spell the end to online learning. Nearly half expect to embed the use of online elements into their instructional practices. While 51 percent of faculty said they’d return to in-person instruction, the rest said they’d employ some blend of […]
Giving up control in your online courses helps create a sense of belonging among students, says professor Jessica Roisen
Get insights on the effects of community on academic outcomes and more in our roundup of the top trends in higher ed