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The use and evaluation of case-based collaborative learning to teach basic sciences at HMS
Awardees plan to implement and evaluate a new instructional method that utilizes pre-class preparation, the case method, collaborative learning, and peer instruction. -
Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership
Awardees plan to develop innovative methodology and curricula to promote the use of visual art in language classes. -
Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses
Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses. Awardee plans to advance methods for better assessing how teams interact and ideas develop during experiential learning in multi-disciplinary engineering classes focused on design and innovation. -
Sound studies
Awardee plans to create a computer lab for sound analysis that could support a number of existing courses across several departments. -
Development of a multimedia textbook
Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course. -
Transforming stories and public health lessons of Ashland, MA, into a multimedia case for learning
Awardees plan to create (using Zeega software) a multimedia “case” that better integrates quantitative and qualitative information, for use in a public health course and as a model for next-generation case-based teaching. -
Enhancing student team effectiveness
Awardees plan to use online assessments to improve team effectiveness and provide students with informative feedback about their role as team members. -
Exploring community differences using spatial data
Awardees plan to create a new course that teaches students in sociology to visualize and analyze spatial data. -
Harvard students and incarcerated students: Learning together in a prison classroom
Awardees plan to develop a joint experiential-learning course for incarcerated students and Harvard students. -
Harvard Writes: A digital teaching and learning platform for better undergraduate academic writing
Awardee plans to develop a digital learning and teaching platform (“Harvard Writes”) for students and instructors to improve undergraduate academic writing by addressing the problem of knowledge transfer.
