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Analyzing long-term retention of information in science gateway course
Awardees will administer a survey to Harvard College graduates to analyze the long-term retention of the concepts and abilities taught in a gateway science course. -
Understanding how hackathon methodology drives participatory design pedagogy
Awardees will explore the “hackathon” as a participatory learning and engagement strategy to bring together members of the Harvard community and beyond. -
New gateway to STEM
Awardees will install an interactive, touch-screen kiosk running interactive WorldWide Telescope Tours in the Science Center and analyze usage. -
Integrating consequential simulations in coursework
Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation -
Understanding the teaching brain
Define core components of the "teaching brain" -
WSI/ELP water policy learning project
Awardees plan to involve students in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative project on water policy in an effort to use experiential and team-based learning to teach students vital professional skills. -
Geospatial education at Harvard: A new course in mapping and spatial perspectives
Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis. -
Learning and teaching negotiation and conflict resolution skills to enhance patient safety in the OR
Awardees plan to enable learners to apply principles of negotiation and conflict resolution in the high-stakes operating room environment, with the ultimate goal of improving medical teamwork and patient safety. -
Leadership and authority in groups: An innovative and experiential leadership development collaboration
Awardees plan to design multidisciplinary workshops that use experiential learning to teach participants about group dynamics and leadership. -
The use and evaluation of case-based collaborative learning to teach basic sciences at HMS
Awardees plan to implement and evaluate a new instructional method that utilizes pre-class preparation, the case method, collaborative learning, and peer instruction. -
Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership
Awardees plan to develop innovative methodology and curricula to promote the use of visual art in language classes. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Quests for wisdom: Religious, moral, and aesthetic searches for the art of living
Awardees plan to design, fund, and assess a new interdisciplinary, cross-school course on “wisdom for the art of living” that seeks to transform students’ moral experiences through experiential learning. -
Hands-on virtual dissection for dynamic anatomy instruction and evaluation
Awardees plan to use Kinect technology for “hands on” virtual dissection. -
Those who teach, can: Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency
Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency. Awardees plan to study whether teaching and clinical skills correlate, and whether teaching training improves clinical performance. -
HSPH Office of education
Office of education supports SPH teaching community, provides teaching materials, workshops, and a library of health-based teaching cases. -
HGSE Project Zero
Project Zero produces knowledge material, symposia, workshops, and summer institutes to improve education in the arts, at all levels of learning.