Combining trusted content from Wiley with Top Hat’s powerful student engagement platform gives educators new opportunities to personalize instruction, foster active learning, and improve outcomes.
TORONTO – January 12, 2026 – Top Hat, the leader in student engagement solutions for higher education, today announced a strategic partnership with Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, that combines Wiley’s academic expertise and Top Hat’s innovative engagement tools. As part of the collaboration, select titles from Wiley’s widely respected Psychology and Anatomy & Physiology catalogs will be seamlessly integrated into the Top Hat platform, giving educators access to powerful features to personalize content, enhance student success, and save time on course preparation and delivery.
“At Wiley, we believe great content is the foundation of great teaching,” said Lyssa Vanderbeek, Wiley Group Vice President, Courseware. “Through our partnership with Top Hat, we’re delivering our respected titles in key disciplines through another avenue, a platform specifically designed to spark classroom engagement and support evidence-based teaching practices.”
Key Benefits of the Partnership
Easily Customize Trusted Wiley Content: Educators gain the flexibility to adapt select Wiley psychology and anatomy & physiology textbooks using intuitive content customization tools to rearrange, edit, delete or enrich with multimedia so course materials emphasize what matters most.
Promote In-Class Engagement: Wiley’s selected textbooks and ancillaries become the foundation for in-class engagement. Educators can use built-in classroom engagement tools, including 14 interactive question types, to make learning active and more impactful.
Make Learning Active Outside the Classroom: Wiley-authored teaching resources like question banks, slides and videos can be directly integrated within the textbook, to create a richer, more cohesive learning experience.
Enhance Teaching and Learning with Built-In AI Support: Ace, Top Hat’s AI-powered assistant, expands the impact of Wiley content by generating tailored polling questions, discussion prompts and relatable examples, while students benefit from on-demand study help and unlimited practice questions tied to assigned readings.
Support Student Success with Real-Time Data: With Top Hat, every interaction—from attendance, to readings and assessments—generates real-time insights, providing a holistic picture of student performance, and enabling timely interventions to help more learners succeed.“We are proud to partner with Wiley through a shared goal of supporting educators and students,” said Maggie Leen, CEO of Top Hat. “Together we’re redefining what’s possible with course materials and reimagining how courses can be delivered by making content more flexible, personalized, and accessible—taking another big step toward our vision to make learning personal for every student.”
Top Hat and Wiley share a common belief that by sparking better teaching and learning, we open up opportunities for fulfilling careers, better lives and a brighter world. Through this partnership, both organizations address the evolving needs of higher education, ensuring educators and students benefit from innovative, flexible and personalized learning experiences. For more information, visit tophat.com/partnerships/wiley.
About Top Hat
Grounded in learning science and powered by AI, Top Hat is the leader in student engagement solutions for higher education. We enable educators to adopt evidence-based teaching practices through interactive content, tools, and activities across in-person, online, and hybrid classrooms. Top Hat also provides access to thousands of digital textbooks and OER resources, along with authoring tools that let instructors customize or create their own accessible, interactive course materials. More than 1,500 institutions and thousands of faculty use Top Hat to support the learning of over three million students each year. To learn more, please visit tophat.com.
