#  2016 Conference Agenda 

 



## 2016 HILT Conference, "Interactivity"

Held on Friday, September 30, 2016, at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard University.



 

##  Program Overview 

**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**](https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:71134a29-0817-476c-83b0-24165bd6d9d7)



 

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