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• How digital education transforms residential teaching: Systematic analysis of faculty attitudes and experiences creating MOOCs

  Awardees will synthesize instructors’ pedagogically relevant experiences and lessons learned making Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and create a set of best practices.

• Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy

  Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives.

• Revision history analytics in service of analyzing the writing process

  Awardees analyzed revision patterns in student writing, how they relate to activities within specific passages of a written text, and how revision-history analytics can play a role in supporting teaching and improvement in writing skills.

• Creating real-time connections in online courses

  Awardees evaluated types of interactivity between faculty and students and generated a resource guide of best practices to assist instructors in interacting with online and residential students in Canvas.

• Transforming team-learning teaching cases in public health for online platforms: an e-learning module development project

  Awardees transformed STRIPED teaching cases for online delivery, consistent with digital learning research and toward expanded outreach to working professionals.

• Extending active classroom activities to online students

  Awardees developed methods for online students to participate in active learning exercises designed for the traditional classroom.

• 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.

• Getting learners to AskUp: Enhancing education through learner-generated questions

  Awardees will develop an online platform – “AskUp” – using evidence-based techniques to facilitate and enhance learning through learner-generated questions.

• 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.

• 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.

• Study of collaborative writing

  Using Virtual Machines to Track Collaborative Writing Assignments

• Integrating consequential simulations in coursework

  Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation

• Transforming education through computer vision analysis and automated assessment

  Awardees plan to develop tools for automatically analyzing student behavior, promoting richer interactions between students and teachers, and optimizing peer instruction in large lecture classes.

• Calculus practitioner series: Meeting the changing needs of our students and client disciplines

  Awardees plan to design and record a multimedia series on the  interdisciplinary nature of calculus with speakers from Harvard faculty from the STEM and quantitative social science fields.

• Graduate multimedia fellows program

  Awardees plan to organize a graduate multimedia fellows program that trains teaching fellows to evaluate and advise students’ on multimedia projects.

• Geospatial education at Harvard: A new course in mapping and spatial perspectives

  Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis.

• 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.

• Learning bundles: A tool to enhance student learning in higher education

  Awardee plans to create a tool that combines video, links to online material, and classroom exercises to facilitate student thinking about complex topics on which experts disagree.

• Sound studies

  Awardee plans to create a computer lab for sound analysis that could support a number of existing courses across several departments.

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