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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. -
Bridging the gap between statistics courses and practice
Awardee bridged the gap between statistics courses and students’ ability to implement concepts in their own work with a student-run consulting service to be permanently housed in the Biostatistics Department. -
Revision history analytics in service of analyzing the writing process
Awardees analyzed revision patterns in student writing, how they relate to activities within specific passages of a written text, and how revision-history analytics can play a role in supporting teaching and improvement in writing skills. -
A Pilot in mathematics enrichment to increase pathways to STEM
Awardee implemented a large-scale version of a successful pilot “book club” aimed at lower level math students to create an environment to practice and experiment with advanced concepts. -
Graduate Writing Oasis
Awardee ran a year-long Writing Oasis program, based on a successful pilot offering, to provide dedicated time and collaboration for graduate students in their dissertation writing. -
New methods for hands-on teaching in the history of technology
Awardee developed experiential learning opportunities for students in history of technology courses, including in-class demonstration and simulation. -
Creating real-time connections in online courses
Awardees evaluated types of interactivity between faculty and students and generated a resource guide of best practices to assist instructors in interacting with online and residential students in Canvas. -
Understanding the impact of using mechanistic concept mapping as a collaborative learning tool
Awardee conducted a mixed-methods study in HMS course Homeostasis I. -
Transforming team-learning teaching cases in public health for online platforms: an e-learning module development project
Awardees transformed STRIPED teaching cases for online delivery, consistent with digital learning research and toward expanded outreach to working professionals. -
DIY flipping kit: Blended learning in the context of Canvas
Awardees created a “do it yourself” flipping kit to help faculty across the University develop blended learning materials using Canvas. -
Extending active classroom activities to online students
Awardees developed methods for online students to participate in active learning exercises designed for the traditional classroom.