Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed from the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning to active instructors during the academic year was inspired by a successful 2012 HILT grant project. The e-letter highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across Schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice, contributing to and strengthening a University-wide community of practice around teaching.

Below is a catalog of all the Into Practice issues sorted by the publication date. To subscribe to Into Practice, please sign-up via our Mailing List page.

• Feedback vs. evaluation: Getting past the reluctance to deliver negative feedback

  When Dr. Keith Baker, Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Anesthesia Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, gives medical residents feedback, he emphasizes a “learning orientation” (where the goal is mastery), rather than a “performance orientation” (where the goal is validation of abilities).

• 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.

• Extending active classroom activities to online students

  Awardees developed methods for online students to participate in active learning exercises designed for the traditional classroom.

• Improving learning experiences by building cooperative environments in classrooms

  Awardees will use classroom simulations to study helpful behavioral economic interventions toward increased learning and cooperation in classrooms.

• Transforming education through computer vision analysis and automated assessment

  Awardees plan to develop tools for automatically analyzing student behavior, promoting richer interactions between students and teachers, and optimizing peer instruction in large lecture classes.

• 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 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.

• Harvard Business Publishing

  Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for management education.