HILT hosts small lunch and dinner discussions with faculty and academic professional staff from across the University to share their challenges, questions, and interests about teaching at Harvard. Input informs HILT’s portfolio of activities, including funding support and event agendas. Over 400 faculty and 120 academic professional staff have participated to date.
Want to participate? Email: HILT@harvard.edu
Spring 2025 topics:
- Building Strong Connections Across Schools
- Can short form learning and deep learning coexist?
- Effective Video Storytelling for Learning
- Innovative Teaching: Bridging the Gap between Vision and Practice
- Insights from the Classroom Social Compact Committee
- Students and Writing (including creative writing/projects) in the Current Era
- Teaching and Learning with GenAI
- Teaching and Learning – with or against AI
Past discussion topics:
- An Interactive Conversation Exploring GenAI
- Assessing 21st Century Skills
- Assessments
- Blended Learning
- Building Community in Blended and Online Courses
- Case Method Teaching
- Championing Equitable Instruction and Inclusive Classrooms
- Charged Conversations
- Climate Change
- Climate Education
- Co-Curricular/Public Service
- Creating Networked Systems of Support for Students
- Empowering creative thinking in the classroom
- Enabling difficult conversations
- Fostering and supporting educational innovation
- Future Directions for Harvard’s Online Content
- Future of Online Learning
- Future of Teaching and Learning
- Generative AI: building skills for staff
- GenAI in the Humanities
- Group / Team work
- How Can We Create Better Connections Between Humanities and Professional Schools?
- Implicit Bias in Assessment
- Inclusive Teaching
- Intentional Teaching and learning practices
- Learning by Making
- Lecture
- Lessons in Remote Teaching
- Open Discussion
- Our Classrooms are the Real World: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times
- Peer Learning about teaching
- Reaping the Benefits of Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom
- Slowing Down in Hyper-Connected/Disconnected Times
- Starting New Educational Initiatives
- Student Agency
- Student agency in the classroom: what is the right balance between student power and faculty autonomy?
- Student-led Learning
- Student-Centered Pedagogy
- The Next Phase of Learning: Innovations In and Beyond the Classroom
- Using Humanities Skills to Solve Problems Across Disciplines
- What’s working? An idea swap for staff who support teaching and learning