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• Usable Knowledge

  A digital publication based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education produced for educators everywhere. Usable Knowledge was founded to connect research to practice. They make education research and well-vetted strategies accessible to a wide audience: teachers and principals, district leaders, policymakers, university faculty and higher ed professionals, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, members of the media, and parents.

• Building Teaching Professional Development for Harvard Graduate Students involved in STEMM Educational Outreach

  Awardees will create and curate professional development resources for evidence-based inclusive teaching that is specifically tailored to Harvard graduate students involved in STEMM outreach programs.

• We are all Educators: Piloting a Workshop to Prepare University Staff to Act as Effective Educators

  Awardees will create resources and a workshop that will enable staff members to more effectively act as educators when working with students on formal and informal projects.

• Understanding culture through material artifacts

  Students in Japanese art and architecture courses taught by Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, often encounter cultures quite different from their own.  Lippit immerses them in those cultures through deep engagement with material artifacts, by examining roof tiles or carpentry, visiting the Japanese house at the Boston Children’s Museum, or participating in a tea ceremony.  

• Moving from passive learning to active exploration of the physical world

  Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), makes extensive use of the museum’s ornithology collections in his courses and brings specimens into his lecture sessions to engage students in close analysis during weekly three-hour labs. Edwards models “ways of making meaning” by looking to specimens as key evidence for testing claims and theories.

• 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.

• Whiteness: An Ethnographic Question

  Awardee will use an ethnographic lens to spark an interdisciplinary and intergenerational conversation on the role of whiteness in research, pedagogy, and institutional life.

• Development of Student-run Podcasts as an Innovative Learning and Communication Tool

  Awardees will develop training workshops to teach students to communicate technical knowledge to broader audiences through podcasting.

• 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.

• 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.

• Explaining things differently: A Crowdsourcing approach

  Awardees will build a crowdsourced repository of video tutorial explanations of key course topics.

• Online learning models matrix

  Awardee will convene a group of faculty and staff to study and document the current range of online learning models and disseminate a matrix of findings that will inform pedagogical strategies and production activities.

• Faculty scholarly working papers on teaching and learning

  HKS Faculty Working Paper Series on Teaching and Learning

• Repository of TF Section Plans

  Awardee plans to develop and pilot an open database of section plans for Teaching Fellows in the government department.

• Geospatial education at Harvard: A new course in mapping and spatial perspectives

  Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis.

• Online analytic reading and writing tutorial dissemination and evaluation

  Awardees plan to use usage data and impact assessments to further develop their online tutorial on analytic reading and writing.

• Cultivating communities of practice in graduate student teaching

  Awardee plans to develop a formal model of professional development for doctoral students who serve as teaching fellows.

• Faculty Focus on Teaching: A collaborative venture to develop pedagogic insights, ambitions, and techniques

  Awardee plans to create an online, video-based process for analyzing and sharing effective teaching strategies among faculty colleagues.

• Learning bundles: A tool to enhance student learning in higher education

  Awardee plans to create a tool that combines video, links to online material, and classroom exercises to facilitate student thinking about complex topics on which experts disagree.

• Learning from leaders: Weaving a leadership narrative into the educational experience

  Awardees plan to edit existing video of influential lectures into pedagogically-relevant clips, and create a user-friendly interface to enable faculty to better use these videos in their courses.

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