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  • 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.

  • Portraits in multimedia: A social engagement project in African and African American Studies

    Awardees plan to create a digital archive of “social portraits” (short video interviews with African leaders and residents) for widespread use in humanities courses.

  • Teaching with things: Curation, hybrid multimedia, and object-oriented pedagogy

    Awardees plan to expand an existing curatorial program at metaLAB and the museums to support object-based teaching in the humanities.

  • H20: Adaptable digital textbooks

    Awardees plan to develop further their online H20 platform for digital textbook design and distribution.

  • The digital archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters as a teaching tool and laboratory course

    Awardees plan to further develop the Japan Digital Archive project and design a Fall 2013 lab course that capitalizes on the improved platform.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.
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