Awardees will continue development of AskUp, a free, open-source studying and learning app that leverages evidence-based techniques to enhance learning, and will evaluate the efficacy of the application’s improvement to metacognition, self-directed
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.
Awardee plans to create an online, video-based process for analyzing and sharing effective teaching strategies among faculty colleagues.
Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis.
Awardee plans to develop a digital learning and teaching platform (“Harvard Writes”) for students and instructors to improve undergraduate academic writing by addressing the problem of knowledge transfer.
Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course.
Awardees plan to create a digital archive of “social portraits” (short video interviews with African leaders and residents) for widespread use in humanities courses.
Awardees plan to expand an existing curatorial program at metaLAB and the museums to support object-based teaching in the humanities. They are also designing interconnected lesson plans and courses that use their method to “teach with objects.”
Awardees plan to develop further their online H20 platform for digital textbook design and distribution.
Awardees plan to further develop the Japan Digital Archive project and design a Fall 2013 lab course that capitalizes on the improved platform.