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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 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.
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Online Textbook Publisher Top Hat Steps Up Consolidation Play With Third Acquisition in a Year
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 […]
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Top Hat Acquires Fountainhead Press, Leads Digital Transformation of Traditional Higher Ed Textbook Industry
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 […]
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What Makes Students More Likely To Return to School in Spring 2021?
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 […]
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10 Essential Higher Ed Books for 2021
A roundup of education books from 2020 that range from professional development to emotional intelligence
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Audience Response Systems Can Boost Student Engagement
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, […]
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54 Tech Startups To Bet Your Career On in 2021
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.
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Technology Will Be Critical to Navigating Pandemic Challenges: Top Hat CEO
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.
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Print vs. Screen: Why Traditional Textbooks Are Now Obsolete
Here’s why education technology—and the digital courseware it supports—is the ultimate replacement for outdated teaching methods
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Six Ways to Maintain Online Student Engagement and Attendance
Increase active learning and online discussions in any real-time or asynchronous class
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The Pandemic Crushed the Economy. These Toronto-Based Businesses Still Found Success
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.
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Faculty Expect to Return to Face-to-Face Instruction for Fall 2021, but with Online Elements
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 […]
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How ‘Doing Less’ Can Improve Community and Connectivity Online
Giving up control in your online courses helps create a sense of belonging among students, says professor Jessica Roisen
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Ed-on-Ed: College Enrollment Is the Latest Casualty of the Pandemic
Get insights on the effects of community on academic outcomes and more in our roundup of the top trends in higher ed
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Top Hat Field Report: Higher Ed Teaching Strategies for Fall 2021
Online learning is here to stay — even when campuses re-open
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How This Toronto-Based Edutech Company Is Trying To Fix North America’s ‘Broken’ Remote-Learning System
How Canadian tech darling Top Hat reshaped its higher learning products for professors and pupils into a powerful platform for remote learning. Read the article in the Financial Post
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Ed-on-Ed: Isolation and Paranoia Characterize the Fall Semester
Get insights on pass-fail grading requests and more in our roundup of the top trends in higher ed