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• VPAL’s Canvas Dashboards – Lessons Learned

  Zac Wang, HILT’s Senior Manager for Resources Adoption and Impact in VPAL, will discuss Canvas Dashboards-Lessons Learned, and later we will try to identify some of our community needs for Zac to bring back to VPAL.

• Teach Remotely

  Learn best practices, available tools, and how to get support for teaching your classes online.

• Blended Learning: Using interactive online modules before class to enhance learning in class

  Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence (SLATE) Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, developed a series of online modules for Advanced Quantitative Methods I, work made possible by teaching fellow Teddy Svoronos and SLATE staff member Mae Klinger.

• Learning from learning management systems: New ways to engage students through Canvas

  Arthur Applbaum, Adams Professor of Democratic Values, Quinton Mayne, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, and Christopher Robichaud, Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy piloted the new University-wide learning management system, Canvas, in their spring 2015 courses at the Harvard Kennedy School.

• Making “Inclass” into a campus-wide educational technology app store

  Awardee will scale the availability of the SEAS educational technology (edtech) app store across the University.

• 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.

• HLS Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Solutions

  Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Solutions provides consultations, trainings, tutorials, and technological resources for HLS faculty and teaching staff.

• HLS Information Technology Services

  ITS supports the multi-platform computing environment at HLS.

• 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.

• HDS Office of Information Technology & Media Services

  Office of Information Technology & Media Services support teaching, learning, research, and administration at HDS.

• 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.

• SEAS Office of Computing

  Provides information technology support and academic assistance to faculty, students, and staff.

• DCE Instructional Technology Group: integrated learning technologies

  Provides ITS support to the Extension and Summer School, the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, and the Professional Development Programs.

• Office of Digital Teaching and Learning

  Supports pedagogical and technical aspects of course design, development and implementation, for instructors in Extension and Summer School.

• Harvard University Information Technology

  Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is responsible for the strategy, planning, and delivery of information technology across the University.

• Harvard Law School Library

  The mission of the Harvard Law School Library is to support the research and curricular needs of its faculty and students by providing a superb collection of legal materials and by offering the highest possible level of service. To the extent consistent with its mission, the Library supports the research needs of the greater Harvard community as well as scholars from outside the Harvard community requiring access to its unique collections.