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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. -
Development of a multimedia textbook
Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course. -
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. -
Making classroom minutes count
Awardees plan to use active learning strategies, peer instruction, and “flipped classrooms” to transform the core curriculum of their school’s flagship degree program. -
Native Americans in the 21st century: Nation Building II community research projects
Awardees plan to support and extend a multidisciplinary, experiential learning course on community building in indigenous cultures. -
SciBox 1.0: An innovative, experimental learning space inspiring creative approaches to teaching
Awardees plan to redesign a 2,500 sq ft space in the Science Center into an experimental "black-box" classroom that could be used for existing classes beginning in Spring 2013. -
Hands-on virtual dissection for dynamic anatomy instruction and evaluation
Awardees plan to use Kinect technology for “hands on” virtual dissection. -
HSPH Case-Based Teaching and Learning Initiative
Case-Based Teaching and Learning Initiative provides a repository for all resources developed by and for the HSPH Case-Based Teaching and Learning Center. -
HKS Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence
Provides confidential consultation services to individual HKS faculty and to HKS faculty groups for professional development purposes. Provides case and curriculum development/materials for public service professional education. -
HGSE Project Zero
Project Zero produces knowledge material, symposia, workshops, and summer institutes to improve education in the arts, at all levels of learning. -
HGSE Career Services
Provides career advice and connects HGSE students to in-term, summer, and post-graduating opportunities. -
HGSE Teaching and Learning Lab
Support for instructional design and development through consultations, grants, programs, projects and tools. -
HBS Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning
Provides coaching, consultations, workshops, research, and resources for case method and participant-centered teaching to HBS instructors. -
Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH)
"TECH's mission is to advance the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship through experiential education: by initiating, advancing and informing student projects. TECH helps faculty create and deliver innovation and entrepreneurship project courses, provides students with project support and sponsors and advises student groups working to build the Harvard innovation community. TECH, part of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSEAS), creates an innovation community for both undergraduate and graduate students across the university." -
SEAS “Active Learning Lab”
The SEAS academic plan emphasizes the need for hands-on engineering experiences and student design projects. The Active Learning Laboratories are expected to take the lead and excel in supporting these student experiences. -
SEAS Learning Incubator
The Learning Incubator (LInc) seeks to advance learning at SEAS and elevate SEAS as a worldwide leader in innovation in learning and teaching by: Providing a team-based infrastructure for faculty to incubate, develop and adapt novel ideas and approaches to teaching, developing a culture of scholarship of teaching and learning (including research on learning and assessment) within SEAS and FAS, and providing opportunities for faculty to learn new approaches to teaching aligned with research on how students learn -
Office of Digital Teaching and Learning
Supports pedagogical and technical aspects of course design, development and implementation, for instructors in Extension and Summer School. -
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
By supporting experimentation, innovation, and evidence-based practices, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning seeks to create transformational learning experiences for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. -
Harvard Art Museums
"The Harvard Art Museums—the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—advance knowledge about and appreciation of art and art museums. The museums are committed to preserving, documenting, presenting, interpreting, and strengthening the collections and resources in their care. The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public. Through research, teaching, professional training, and public education, the museums encourage close study of original works of art, enhance access to the collections, support the production of original scholarship, and foster university-wide collaboration across disciplines." -
Arnold Arboretum
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University discovers and disseminates knowledge of the plant kingdom to foster greater understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of Earth’s botanical diversity and its essential value to humankind. This is accomplished through three areas of activity: research, horticulture, and education.