This post is written by the Top Hat editorial team.
With the Fall academic term just weeks away, many educators are dissatisfied with the plans, level of clarity, and support they’ve received from their schools to teach online effectively, according to a new survey of more than 800 higher education faculty and instructional support staff. Read the article in Phil on EdTech to learn more.
Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors keeps his students engaged when teaching online. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more.
Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors uses technology to help close achievement gaps and increase participation. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more.
Toronto-based EdTech startup Top Hat has launched Top Hat Community, a new free communication tool that allows students and educators at high education institutions with digital spaces to easily communicate and collaborate. The Top Hat Community app is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Betakit newsletter to learn more.
Active learning courseware platform Top Hat has introduced Top Hat Community, an integrated communication tool that enables course announcements, real-time discussions, project collaborations, peer connections, community building and more, all in one centralized hub. Community is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Campus Technology newsletter to learn more.
MaRS Discovery District has officially launched Momentum, a new program designed to support high-growth Canadian companies with the potential to reach $100 million in revenue in the next five years. Top Hat has been announced as one of the 53 companies in the program’s “portfolio.” Read the article in The MaRs newsletter to learn more.
Colleges have frittered the summer away on audacious and absurd reopening plans. It’s time to embrace remote learning instead. Read the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education to learn more.
Top Hat has moved quickly to accelerate the rollout of new products to meet increased interest for its offerings. Since the lockdown began in March, the company has introduced a remote proctoring tool to ensure secure exams in an online environment, a community chat function and soon a virtual classroom video-conferencing tool optimized for a […]
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.
Our Virtual Classroom tools are designed to help educators connect with their students, wherever learning takes place
For Dan Maxwell’s students, their academic experience didn’t change much during the transition to remote learning, as he worked with them – and the company behind a leading remote-learning platform–to ensure their educational experience was as seamless as possible. Read the article in theUniversity of New Haven blog to learn more.
Here is some of the guidance Top Hat has been providing as instructors balance the need for student equity and access, while maintaining some semblance of business as usual during this time of dislocation. Read the article in eCampus News to learn more.
Before the crisis, Toronto’s Tophatmonocle Corp. (Top Hat) had already made a name in the academic publishing business. Its app lets instructors administer tests, grade assignments and provide digital textbooks and other course materials to three million students at 750 North American universities and colleges, all through their smartphones. Read the article in the Globe […]
Top Hat is an ed tech company that both a) fosters active learning through software that goes beyond typical Learning Management System (LMS) functionality, and b) provides services related to helping faculty move their courses online. Kudos to TopHat for launching this effort! Read the article in Phil on Ed Tech to learn more.
We are introducing Top Hat Basic—available free of charge—to enable professors to host synchronous online classes that engage students and make them feel connected to their learning. Read the article in Education Dive to learn more.
Top Hat is launching a free version of its platform in addition to several new virtual classroom capabilities, in order to support professors whose work is being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article on BetaKit to learn more.
In an April survey conducted by education technology vendor Top Hat, a quarter of college students said they’re undecided about whether or not to continue their education in the fall. Read the article in Campus Technology to learn more.
Canada’s largest education publisher, Nelson Education Ltd., has agreed to sell its domestic university textbook publishing business to Toronto technology company Tophatmonocle Corp. in a deal that heralds a hastening of the shift to online education here. Read the article in the Globe and Mail to learn more.
Educational publisher Nelson has signed a deal to sell its domestic university textbook business to Top Hat and says it plans to focus on the kindergarten-to-Grade 12 market. Read the article in the Toronto Star to learn more.
The Toronto-based classroom tech company plans to focus on selling digital versions of the 400 textbooks it snapped up from Nelson Education, Canada’s largest education publisher. Read the article in The Logic to learn more.