2018 Conference Agenda
2018 HILT Conference, "Implementing the Science of Learning to Advance the Art of Teaching"
Held on Friday, September 21, 2018, at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard University.
Program Overview
8:30 am Breakfast and registration
9:00 am Welcome remarks with Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Harvard University
9:30 am Framing the day with Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (SPH); Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
10:00 am Keynote: The Intentional University
A conversation exploring educational practices at Harvard with a former Harvard faculty member who used an outcomes-based, science of learning approach to start a new university, and a former Senator and Governor who has advocated strongly for broad reform in higher education
- Claudine Gay (moderator), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
- Bob Kerrey, Former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska
- Stephen Kosslyn, Founder, President, and CEO of Foundry College
11:00 am Unpacking the Plenary
Breakout sessions 1
12:00 pm Implementation Workshops
Breakout sessions 2
1:15 pm Lunch Plenary Featuring a conversation with Provost Alan Garber and incoming Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand
2:30 pm Closing