Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing
December 9, 2014
Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing Speakers: Steven Pinker, Jill Abramson, moderated by Samuel Moulton Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 5:00pm to 6:15pm Location: Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we better learn and teach it? Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of […]
2014 HILT Conference
September 16, 2014
HILT Conference 2014: Engagement and Distance The HILT Annual Conference was held on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 in Wasserstein Hall. Thank you to those of you who joined us, both on campus and remotely! Theme and motivating questions The conference is designed around a motivating question, one that builds on the thematic questions from the two previous […]
Research-based principles for multimedia learning
May 5, 2014
Research-based principles for multimedia learning Speakers: Richard E. Mayer, UC Santa Barbara Date: Monday, May 5, 2014, 4:00pm Location: Sever Hall 113 “People learn more deeply from words and graphics than from words alone. This assertion can be called the multimedia principle, and it forms the basis for using multimedia instruction—that is, instruction containing words […]
Forgetting as a Friend of Learning
October 11, 2013
Forgetting as a Friend of Learning: Implications for teaching and self-regulated learning Speakers: Dr. Robert A. Bjork, UCLA Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 1:30pm Location: William James Hall 105 It is natural to think that learning is a matter of building up skills or knowledge in one’s memory and that forgetting is a matter of […]
2013 HILT Conference
May 8, 2013
HILT Conference 2013: Essentials May 8, 2013 Science Center (Plaza and Hall B) The 2nd annual conference hosted by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching focused on the framing question: In this time of disruption and innovation for universities, what are the essentials of good teaching and learning? Active engagement with focused, contrasting perspectives. In […]
Inaugural HILT Symposium
February 3, 2012
HILT Symposium February 3, 2012 Northwest Building (52 Oxford Street) The inaugural HILT Symposium in February 2012 opened a Harvard-wide conversation, engaging over 300 faculty and students in dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas about pedagogical innovation. The event convened invited members of the Harvard community and presenters from within Harvard and externally who […]