2016 Conference Agenda

8:30 am Breakfast and registration

9:10 am Welcome remarks by Drew Faust, President, Harvard University

9:30 am Why Interactivity? Preparing today's students for 2040

Keynote panel

• Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University; Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution

Introduction by:
Erin Driver-Linn, Director, Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching; Associate Provost for Institutional Research

10:45 am Ideas for Improving Teaching and Learning Practices

Breakout sessions

12:15 pm Opportunies for Improving Teaching and Learning at Harvard
Lunch panel discussion

• Alan Garber (moderator), Provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy (HMS); Professor of Economics (FAS)
• Danielle Allen, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (FAS); Professor of Government (FAS); Professor of Education (HGSE)
• Ned Hall, Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy (FAS)

Introduction by: Peter Bol, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning; Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (FAS)

9:15 am Skepticism about assessment: Framing remarks and an example with

• Louis  Deslauriers, Preceptor in Physics
• Erin Driver-­Linn, Director of HILT and Associate Provost for Institutional Research
• Logan McCarty, Director of Physical Sciences Education and Lecturer on Physics

1:30 pm Closing

Full list of speakers and facilitator bios