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• The lecture in 21st century learning: Reconstructing and revaluing our oldest teaching asset

  Awardee plans to redesign his large lecture course based on active learning strategies but, at the same time, preserving possible benefits of the traditional lecture format.

• The use and evaluation of case-based collaborative learning to teach basic sciences at HMS

  Awardees plan to implement and evaluate a new instructional method that utilizes pre-class preparation, the case method, collaborative learning, and peer instruction.

• Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership

  Awardees plan to develop innovative methodology and curricula to promote the use of visual art in language classes.

• Development of a multimedia textbook

  Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course.

• Transforming stories and public health lessons of Ashland, MA, into a multimedia case for learning

  Awardees plan to create (using Zeega software) a multimedia “case” that better integrates quantitative and qualitative information, for use in a public health course and as a model for next-generation case-based teaching.

• Exploring community differences using spatial data

  Awardees plan to create a new course that teaches students in sociology to visualize and analyze spatial data.

• Harvard students and incarcerated students: Learning together in a prison classroom

  Awardees plan to develop a joint experiential-learning course for incarcerated students and Harvard students.

• Einstein reversed

  Awardee redesigned his Gen Ed course on the Einsteinian revolution, using video-recorded content to “flip the classroom."

• Portraits in multimedia: A social engagement project in African and African American Studies

  Awardees plan to create a digital archive of “social portraits” (short video interviews with African leaders and residents) for widespread use in humanities courses.

• The future of learning: Preparing professionals in education for a changing world

  Awardees plan to use learning principles of digital and social media to create an online environment that engages faculty, students, and staff involved with their professional education program; they also plan to create immersive exercises that promote active, interdisciplinary learning.

• Making classroom minutes count

  Awardees plan to use active learning strategies, peer instruction, and “flipped classrooms” to transform the core curriculum of their school’s flagship degree program.

• The Connected Scholar

  Awardees plan to develop further an online tool (“The Connected Scholar”) to teach and promote academic integrity and facilitate proper citation.

• A Model for teaching and curriculum development informed by the theatrical process

  Awardees plan to host a series of professional workshops and roundtables that connect the dramatic arts with teaching.

• SciBox 1.0: An innovative, experimental learning space inspiring creative approaches to teaching

  Awardees plan to redesign a 2,500 sq ft space in the Science Center into an experimental "black-box" classroom that could be used for existing classes beginning in Spring 2013.

• Hands-on virtual dissection for dynamic anatomy instruction and evaluation

  Awardees plan to use Kinect technology for “hands on” virtual dissection.

• The digital archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters as a teaching tool and laboratory course

  Awardees plan to further develop the Japan Digital Archive project and design a Fall 2013 lab course that capitalizes on the improved platform.

• HMS Office of Curriculum Fellows

  Office of Curriculum Fellows is the Fellowship program of postdoctoral research scientist/educators to improve graduate education at HMS.

• HLS Case Development Initiative

  Case Development Initiative develops and publishes written and video legal cases for classroom settings, using interviews, data, and research.

• HKS Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence

  Provides confidential consultation services to individual HKS faculty and to HKS faculty groups for professional development purposes. Provides case and curriculum development/materials for public service professional education.

• HGSE Project Zero

  Project Zero produces knowledge material, symposia, workshops, and summer institutes to improve education in the arts, at all levels of learning.

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