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Transforming team-learning teaching cases for online platforms: scaling up an e-learning module development project to expand reach across Harvard and to public health professionals in field settings
Awardees will extend the transformation of traditional to online cases across Harvard by developing a new e-module for delivering teaching cases on-line to public health professionals in field settings, and convening a cross-Harvard workshop to share best practices. -
How digital education transforms residential teaching: Systematic analysis of faculty attitudes and experiences creating MOOCs
Awardees will synthesize instructors’ pedagogically relevant experiences and lessons learned making Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and create a set of best practices. -
Assessing learning outcomes from a novel formative assessment in a large enrollment graduate life science course
Awardees will evaluate whether delivering a chalk talk in response to an open-ended experimental design question is an effective method to drive improvements in the general practice and articulation of experimental design, as measured through responses to subsequent written experimental design questions. -
“Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking
Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making. -
Team-based learning in the humanities
Awardee will redesign a course with team-based learning (TBL) principles and assess the benefits and challenges of the approach. -
Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy
Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives. -
Choice architecture: When students become designers of optimal decision processes
Awardee will develop in-class and online activities to improve student decision-making and increase classroom engagement. -
The Diversity Journal Club
Awardee will pilot a Diversity Journal Club (DJC) to understand how diversity issues impact learning, teaching, research, and culture in the science community. -
Project Nights and open-ended design research
Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning. -
Evaluating methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking: A mixed methods study of faculty and students across Harvard University
Awardees will conduct a mixed methods study analyzing the teaching and learning of critical thinking skills at Harvard—the differences in approaches across Schools, and faculty and student perceptions of critical thinking instruction and assessment.
