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Elective in primary care medicine and teaching
Awardees will pilot an advanced elective in primary care medicine and teaching, where senior medical students tutor junior medical students in clinical skills, with assessment of its benefits to both students enrolled in the elective and the junior students they tutor. -
Teaching rewriting
Awardees explored the potential impact of a writing instruction method that emphasizes the editorial and revision process, which has the potential advantages of scalability and skill transferability. -
LINK: Preparing students to evaluate evidence and navigate real world issues
Awardees will refine six skill-building exercises intended to help students more effectively interpret evidence, and disseminate them to the Harvard teaching community. -
The Videographic essay: Innovating a multimedia pedagogical tool for 21st Century scholarship
Awardee will articulate the scholarly development of the use of the “videographic essay” as a method for communicating knowledge, compiling research, and synthesizing arguments, and organize a 2015 special workshop on multimedia methods. -
New educational opportunities at Harvard through online behavioral research
Ken Nakayama (psychology), Krzysztof Gajos (computer science), and Ryan Enos (government) will create web-based modules for a variety of classroom contexts that can be utilized flexibly by students and instructors to actively participate in behavioral research. -
Digital Teaching Fellow program
Awardees will expand the digital teaching fellow program from one to at least seven departments in the humanities and social sciences, pairing students with faculty to develop a variety of course-related digital projects, encouraging pedagogical experimentation in digital active learning, multi-media assignments, and unique faculty-student collaboration. -
From text to multimedia: Evaluating a scalable enhancement model for problem-based learning
Awardees will conduct a comparison study to identify the impact of multimedia enhancements of case materials on student preparation and engagement. -
Online learning models matrix
Awardee will convene a group of faculty and staff to study and document the current range of online learning models and disseminate a matrix of findings that will inform pedagogical strategies and production activities. -
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. -
Teaching creativity: Landscape, architecture, originality, and autobiography
Awardee will develop a new interdisciplinary course, involving leaders in landscape architecture and other fields paired with faculty at Harvard to examine originality, authenticity, and invention, and develop a model for courses that spark students to develop their own creative voice.
