2019 Conference Resources – Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)

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Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

HILT Conference 2019
Peer Learning: Everyone’s a Teacher, Everyone’s a Learner
Friday, September 27, 2019
Wasserstein Hall, Harvard University

Resources:

Peer Learning: What Does the Research Say?
Making Peer Learning Accessible – Activity Sheet
Making Peer Learning Accessible – Handout
Making Peer Learning Accessible – Slides
Peer Learning in the Classroom – Slides
Classroom Visits Guide
HKS Teaching Week Overview
HBS Teaching Group Effectiveness
Peer Learning in Online Environments – Slides
ABLConnect – Peer Instruction examples and research
“Overcoming Peer Learning Phobia,” Harvard Business Publishing Education, by Tim O’Brien

Conference media:

Learning, and Teaching, As Peers, Harvard Magazine

Conference video:

Harvard University Provost Alan Garber provided welcome remarks to kick-off HILT’s eighth annual conference: “Peer Learning: Everyone’s a Teacher, Everyone’s a Learner,” held Friday, September 27, 2019, in Wasserstein Hall at Harvard Law School.

Welcome remarks

Dustin Tingley, faculty director of the HILT conference and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduced the conference’s morning panel, on peer-learning practices beyond the classroom. Erin Driver-Linn, dean for education at the Harvard School of Public Health, moderated a discussion with award-winning music educator Cecil Adderley, chair of Berklee College of Music’s education department, and Mike Way, head coach of Harvard’s squash program.

Morning panel

Conference attendees about an experimental college run largely by students, during a plenary session in which Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana spoke with Robyn Gittleman, former associate dean of undergraduate education and director of Tufts University’s Experimental College (ExCollege).

Afternoon panel

“Making Peer Learning Accessible: Tools and Practices” explained how to make peer learning work for students with disabilities.

Making Peer Learning Accessible

“Learning from Each Other, Learning Online: Peer Learning in Online Environments” shared models and best practices from Harvard’s online education programs for making peer engagement effective.

Learning from Each Other, Learning Online

“Student Perspectives on Peer Learning: Learners are Teachers, Too” let students share their insights into when peer learning is most effective, and when it isn’t.

Student Perspectives on Peer Learning

“Making Peer Learning Effective: What Does the Research Say?” summarized key findings from education research into why and how peer learning works.

Making Peer Learning Effective