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