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• MuRealities

  The media experiment project aims to workshop digital surveys that explore these main research questions: how does this mural serve as an “interactive” map for storytelling and navigating narratives?

• Using faculty videos in required courses to engage students at all levels

  Like many instructors of required courses, Pinar Dogan, Lecturer in Public Policy and SLATE Faculty Liaison for Pedagogy, teaches her section of Markets and Market Failure to students with significantly divergent levels of prior knowledge of microeconomics. Seeking a way for students “to end up at the same place even though they started at very different places,” Dogan partnered with SLATE to develop videos of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty experts explaining the relevance of math-intensive or potentially dry concepts (e.g., fixed costs or price elasticity) to public policy. 

• Mastering course content through creative assignments

  Elena Kramer, Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Noel Michele Holbrook, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, co-teach General Education course OEB 52: Biology of Plants through lectures, labs, field trips, and weekly quizzes that students use to combine concepts into a creative project at the end of the semester.

• Creative projects: Interpreting history through various media

  Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, trains students to interpret history through various media including graphics, data visualizations, videos, and art installations.

• Multimedia assignments: A doable skill, a usable skill

  Shigehisa (Hisa) Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, prefers brief video assignments – where students create a visual presentation with audio narrative – to regular written response papers. “I think the ability to express oneself with media is one of the most usable skills.”

• 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.

• The Video Essay as a Learning Tool in Field Based Courses and Design Courses

  Awardees will explore the video essay as an integrative teaching tool in field-based and design-oriented courses.

• Explaining things differently: A Crowdsourcing approach

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

• Digital Teaching Fellow program

  Awardees will expand the digital teaching fellow program from one to at least seven departments in the humanities and social sciences, pairing students with faculty to develop a variety of course-related digital projects, encouraging pedagogical experimentation in digital active learning, multi-media assignments, and unique faculty-student collaboration.

• New models for evaluating learning outcomes in digital humanities teaching

  Awardees will host a workshop around opportunities and challenges in digital humanities teaching, applying lessons learned to the assessment of metaLAB platforms.

• From text to multimedia: Evaluating a scalable enhancement model for problem-based learning

  Awardees will conduct a comparison study to identify the impact of multimedia enhancements of case materials on student preparation and engagement.

• Graduate multimedia fellows program

  Awardees plan to organize a graduate multimedia fellows program that trains teaching fellows to evaluate and advise students’ on multimedia projects.

• 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.

• Sound studies

  Awardee plans to create a computer lab for sound analysis that could support a number of existing courses across several departments.

• Development of a multimedia textbook

  Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course.

• Transforming stories and public health lessons of Ashland, MA, into a multimedia case for learning

  Awardees plan to create (using Zeega software) a multimedia “case” that better integrates quantitative and qualitative information, for use in a public health course and as a model for next-generation case-based teaching.

• 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.

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