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New gateway to STEM
Awardees will install an interactive, touch-screen kiosk running interactive WorldWide Telescope Tours in the Science Center and analyze usage. -
Improving learning experiences by building cooperative environments in classrooms
Awardees will use classroom simulations to study helpful behavioral economic interventions toward increased learning and cooperation in classrooms. -
Teaching genomics across Harvard schools
Awardees will establish the “Harvard Genomics Teaching Group,” share pedagogical approaches, a dedicated platform for analysis, and document best practices. -
Integrating consequential simulations in coursework
Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation -
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. -
Badging education: Individualization, collaboration and innovation at the leading edge
Awardees plan to develop a social media and badging platform that allows students to share and collaboratively develop their core knowledge and competencies. -
Test-enhanced learning: Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education
Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education. Awardees plan to study how formative assessment can be better used in lecture courses to promote learning. -
Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses
Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses. Awardee plans to advance methods for better assessing how teams interact and ideas develop during experiential learning in multi-disciplinary engineering classes focused on design and innovation. -
Enhancing student team effectiveness
Awardees plan to use online assessments to improve team effectiveness and provide students with informative feedback about their role as team members. -
Those who teach, can: Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency
Characterizing the link between teaching and professional competency. Awardees plan to study whether teaching and clinical skills correlate, and whether teaching training improves clinical performance.
