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• Student Success Initiatives

  Please join the HILT Learning Design affinity group on April 28th at 12PM ET for a webinar on recent student success initiatives featuring colleagues from across the Harvard University community. Each of the panel’s presenters will share experiences from the past year related to work supporting their respective learner audiences, along with the challenges and future opportunities this unexpected and prolonged disruption has presented.

• Teach Remotely

  Learn best practices, available tools, and how to get support for teaching your classes online.

• 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.

• Oklahoma Science Project

  The Oklahoma Science Project is an online resource with the goal of improving access to and promoting STEM education in Oklahoma.

• Bonsai

   Bonsai is a personalized and adaptive solution that develops SEL skills in middle school students by encouraging them to engage in microlearning activities.

• Transforming team-learning teaching cases for online platforms: scaling up an e-learning module development project to expand reach across Harvard and to public health professionals in field settings

  Awardees will extend the transformation of traditional to online cases across Harvard by developing a new e-module for delivering teaching cases on-line to public health professionals in field settings, and convening a cross-Harvard workshop to share best practices.

• “Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking

  Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making.

• Project Nights and open-ended design research

  Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning.

• Revision history analytics in service of analyzing the writing process

  Awardees analyzed revision patterns in student writing, how they relate to activities within specific passages of a written text, and how revision-history analytics can play a role in supporting teaching and improvement in writing skills.

• A Pilot in mathematics enrichment to increase pathways to STEM

  Awardee implemented a large-scale version of a successful pilot “book club” aimed at lower level math students to create an environment to practice and experiment with advanced concepts.

• Getting learners to AskUp: Enhancing education through learner-generated questions

  Awardees will develop an online platform – “AskUp” – using evidence-based techniques to facilitate and enhance learning through learner-generated questions.

• A Crash course in Harvard College and undergraduates

  Awardees designed a workshop for teaching fellows to increase understanding of teaching Harvard undergraduates in order to foster meaningful and productive relationships.

• Capture50: A tool to facilitate peer review and assessment

  Awardees will provide a low-cost tool that automatically captures video of instructors, facilitating more robust peer review and frequent opportunity for pedagogical assessment.

• Improving statistics literacy in graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the life sciences

  Awardees will study misconceptions about statistics in a high-enrollment life science course and develop a related computer-based module.

• Open review platform

  Awardees will, within several physics courses, test, assess, and refine a promising education tool that facilitates student and faculty collaborative annotation of scholarly materials.

• 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.

• Academic Ventures Group

  Academic Ventures brings together scholars from across the University and around the world to foster multidisciplinary collaborations that lead to new ideas, innovative research, and the advancement of knowledge. Our programs range from small, intensive workshops to large public conferences.

• HSPH Office for Career Advancement

  Office for Career Advancement provides career advice, job search strategies, networking advice, and connects HSPH students to in-term and post-graduating opportunities.

• HLS Graduate Student Learning Support

  Graduate Student Learning Support assists students with academic and learning concerns.

• HLS Office of Career Services

  OCS provides career advice and connects SEAS students to in-term, summer, and post-graduating opportunities, with a focus on private sector careers and judicial clerkships.

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