Open Educational Resources at Top Hat: Why Free Now Means Free
Top Hat has created a free, platform-independent marketplace for open educational resources (OER). In this open letter, founder Mike …
Top Hat Textbook
Adopt and customize affordable, interactive textbooks and course materials from Top Hat
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Features
A better textbook experience
Teach with high-quality textbooks and course materials that feature dynamic content and are fully customizable to your course
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A dynamic and interactive experience that's more engaging and fun
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Interspersed with questions, animations and videos that improve student learning and retention
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Fully customizable to suit your course needs
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Always up-to-date; no new editions to purchase
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Textbooks are constantly improving with new revisions from a community of collaborators
Discover and source content on the Top Hat Marketplace
Choose from thousands of textbooks and course materials in the Top Hat Marketplace, and collaborate in a unique community of educators
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Over 20,000 open educational resources available, from interactive textbooks to question packs
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Interactive textbooks available across most large intro courses
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90% of Top Hat Marketplace content is free for you and your students to use
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Access educational content from popular OER sources like OpenStax and Saylor
Save students money
Course content created with Top Hat Textbook is low-cost or free, helping you make education more affordable for students
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90% of Top Hat Marketplace content is free for you and your students to use
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The rest is available at a fraction of publisher prices
Top Hat Textbook is part of an end-to-end teaching platform
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Using the Top Hat platform makes for painless integration of quizzes, activities and tests
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Easily track how students are progressing through the course material
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Integrates with popular LMS
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Industry-leading support for instructors and students
Customer Stories
I created my Top Hat digital textbook to complement how I teach. It includes videos to reinforce material and Top Hat questions to check for understanding. It’s now an integral part of my class.
Matt Numer
Dalhousie University
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