2016 Conference Resources

View 2016 HILT conference materials below.

Resources, including breakout session slides, handouts, media coverage, and more, are now available.

"Sharing the small stuff"

"The topic for the conference, which runs from 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. on Friday at Wasserstein Hall, was developed in the spring as HILT reached out to faculty over a series of lunch and dinner meetings for input about their educational challenges and trajectories."

Read more from this article featured in the Harvard Gazette

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Breakout session resources:

Creative approaches and nudges for educational development

Slides and session handout

How can research advance learning?

Notes and reflections from session participants
HILT sponsored working paper series at the Harvard Kennedy School
“Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom” with Josh Yardley and Richard Zeckhauser. HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-071, November 2015. Forthcoming in Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
“Cold Calling and Web Postings: Do They Improve Students’ Preparation and Learning in Statistics?” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 14, No. 5, December 2014, pp. 92 – 109 (with Josh Bookin). Article available here

Slowing down learning and the benefits of frustration

Resources and citations used for session discussion
Notes and reflections from session participants

Small-scale teaching innovations

Easy teaching innovations submitted by Harvard faculty

Student-led learning: How and why

Into Practice: Multimedia assignments: A doable skill, a usable skill

Recorded Sessions:

Welcoming Remarks

Harvard University President, Drew Gilpin Faust, provided welcome remarks at HILT’s fifth annual conference.

Watch the 2016 welcoming remarks

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Why interactivity? Preparing today's students for 2040

With introduction and moderation from HILT Director, Erin Driver-Linn, panelists, Jack Goldstone (George Mason University) and Rebecca Winthrop (The Brookings Institution) discussed the global landscape of education.

2016 HILT Conference Morning plenary

Opportunities for improving teaching and learning at Harvard

With an introduction by Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol, Harvard University Provost Alan Garber moderated a panel featuring Professor Ned Hall (FAS) and University Professor Danielle Allen about opportunities for improving teaching and learning at Harvard.

Watch the lunch plenary session

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Case teaching at Harvard

Facilitated by Carolyn Wood (HKS) and featuring Archon Fung (HKS), Matthew Miller (HGSE), and V.G. Narayanan (HBS), this breakout session explored case teaching and how its practice varies across Harvard.

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Creative approaches and nudges for educational development

Facilitated by Cassandra Volpe Horii (California Institute of Technology), this breakout session explored ways to develop new, creative, and research-based ideas for supporting instructors and leading initiatives with examples for inspiration and discussion.

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How can research advance learning?

Facilitated by Andrew Ho (HGSE, VPAL Research) and Dustin Tingley (FAS, VPAL Research), and featuring Meira Levinson (HGSE), Dan Levy (HKS), and Todd Rogers (HKS), this breakout session highlighted research-based initiatives that advance teaching and learning.

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Slowing down learning and the benefits of frustration

Facilitated by Professor James Engell (FAS), this breakout session involved participatory discussion of teaching approaches that promote intensive work and deep reflection, and the benefits and challenges of embracing the difficult.

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Small-scale teaching innovations

Facilitated by Professor Matthew Schwartz (FAS) and featuring Chris Robichaud (HKS), Richard Schwartzstein (HMS), Andrew Warren (FAS), and Lucie White (HLS), this breakout session explored how small-scale innovations can improve teaching with examples collected beforehand and provided by participants.

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Student-led learning: How and why?

Facilitated by Jacob Lipton (HLS) and featuring Beth Altringer (SEAS, GSD) and Hisa Kuriyama (FAS), this breakout session provided examples of student-led learning innovations from bite-sized interventions to substantial curricular redesign and considered their purposes and effects.

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