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  1. 21 Team-Building Activities for Students [Plus: Free List of 45+ Activities]

    Creating connections in your classroom will ensure your students are engaged. Use these team-building activities to lay a solid foundation…

  2. Top Hat Expands Digital Textbook Offerings With Fountainhead Press Acquisition

    The deal adds 500 textbooks to Top Hat’s growing collection of high-quality titles

  3. The Ultimate Guide to Universal Design for Learning

    UDL emphasizes student accessibility and ensures course delivery is tailored to create customized learning experiences

  4. 5 Ways to Make Recorded Lectures More Engaging

    Recorded lectures provide students with opportunities for connection and collaboration while maintaining the flexibility necessary to learn…

  5. 45 Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs to Drive Student Success Online

    Evaluating student comprehension is a must. Here’s how Bloom’s Taxonomy can help.

  6. Performance-Based Assessment: How to Implement It in the Classroom

    Performance assessment is an increasingly common assessment method that offers significant advantages over traditional high-stakes testing

  7. Michelle Miller on Radical Availability and How Good Course Design Impacts Community

    If there was ever a time to make trade offs and question our basic assumptions, that time is now

  8. Online Classes vs. Traditional Classes: Which Are Truly More Effective?

    Online courses are no longer a novelty—in fact, they are quickly redefining the entire college experience

  9. Top Hat Adds bluedoor Labs and Course Materials to Support Science Educators

    Bringing the higher ed science publisher on board gives more professors access to high-quality content and active learning tools in this…

  10. Results from Top Hat’s COVID-19 Faculty Survey About Online Teaching

    With the Fall academic term just weeks away, many educators are dissatisfied with the plans, level of clarity, and support they’ve…

  11. How One Professor Keeps His Students Engaged When Teaching Online

    Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors keeps his students engaged when teaching online. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more. 

  12. How Can Teachers Use Technology To Close Achievement Gaps?

    Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors uses technology to help close achievement gaps and increase participation. Read the article in Forbes…

  13. Top Hat Launches New Communication Tool to Help Students, Professors Adapt to Virtual Education

    Toronto-based EdTech startup Top Hat has launched Top Hat Community, a new free communication tool that allows students and educators at…

  14. Top Hat Adds Communication and Community Tools

    Active learning courseware platform Top Hat has introduced Top Hat Community, an integrated communication tool that enables course…

  15. Mars Officially Launches Program Developed Using Federal Scale-up Platform Funding

    MaRS Discovery District has officially launched Momentum, a new program designed to support high-growth Canadian companies with the…

  16. Plexiglass Won’t Save Us

    Colleges have frittered the summer away on audacious and absurd reopening plans. It’s time to embrace remote learning instead. Read…

  17. How One Toronto Technology Company is Powering the Future of Online Education

    Top Hat has moved quickly to accelerate the rollout of new products to meet increased interest for its offerings. Since the lockdown began…

  18. Top Hat Named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s Sixth Annual Power 50 List

    Top Hat has been named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s POWER 50 list of change-makers and visionary Canadian companies. See the entire list here.

  19. Using Top Hat Pro to Raise Student Engagement in the Virtual Classroom

    Our Virtual Classroom tools are designed to help educators connect with their students, wherever learning takes place

  20. Criminal Justice Professor Passionate about Creating Interactive and Engaging Online Classes

    For Dan Maxwell’s students, their academic experience didn’t change much during the transition to remote learning, as he worked with…