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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. -
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. -
Einstein reversed
Awardee redesigned his Gen Ed course on the Einsteinian revolution, using video-recorded content to “flip the classroom." -
Learning from leaders: Weaving a leadership narrative into the educational experience
Awardees plan to edit existing video of influential lectures into pedagogically-relevant clips, and create a user-friendly interface to enable faculty to better use these videos in their courses. -
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. -
Hands-on virtual dissection for dynamic anatomy instruction and evaluation
Awardees plan to use Kinect technology for “hands on” virtual dissection. -
Innovative studio space
Awardees plan to design and teach a studio class in a technology-enhanced, active-learning classroom. -
HSPH Department of Information Technology
ITS supports for the HSPH computing environment. -
HMS Department of information technology, Education computing
Department of information technology, Education computing supports technologies and digital media for teaching and learning needs at HMS. -
HLS Teaching and Pedagogical Resources
Technology and Innovation resources, research resources, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging resources for HLS faculty and teaching staff. -
HLS Information Technology Services
ITS supports the multi-platform computing environment at HLS. -
HKS Educational Technology
The educational technology team at Harvard Kennedy School provides our community with technologies to support teaching and learning and to facilitate innovation in the classroom, online, and in the field. Examples include: - Communicating and collaborating before and after class via the course website and associated tools - Engaging with digital course content outside of class and completing related online assessments to show evidence of learning - Gathering in-class anonymous feedback via classroom response systems to gauge understanding and solicit opinions - Bringing in a guest speaker virtually to speak with the class - Providing enrolled students with access to recorded class sessions through the course website for post-session review - Offering live online office hours with teaching staff