Awardees will create resources and a workshop that will enable staff members to more effectively act as educators when working with students on formal and informal projects.
Awardees will develop training workshops to teach students to communicate technical knowledge to broader audiences through podcasting.
Awardee will develop in-class and online activities to improve student decision-making and increase classroom engagement.
Awardees will investigate whether embodied class exercises, relevant to the material being taught, yield greater understanding and retention of this material compared to teaching that relies solely on demonstrations.
Awardees will explore the best-performing sequences of instructional materials in both controlled studies and in the context of real online courses.
Awardees developed a two-week module on basic computational methods in MATLAB, lowering the barrier to use for students in courses from biology to economics.
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
Awardees will establish the “Harvard Genomics Teaching Group,” share pedagogical approaches, a dedicated platform for analysis, and document best practices.
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.
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.