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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. -
Enhancing student team effectiveness
Awardees plan to use online assessments to improve team effectiveness and provide students with informative feedback about their role as team members. -
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. -
Harvard Writes: A digital teaching and learning platform for better undergraduate academic writing
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. -
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. -
Teaching with things: Curation, hybrid multimedia, and object-oriented pedagogy
Awardees plan to expand an existing curatorial program at metaLAB and the museums to support object-based teaching in the humanities. -
Coordinating and advancing statistical teaching and learning (CASTLE)
Awardees plan to organize a two-day workshop that brings together faculty and students from across the University to discuss pedagogical strategies for teaching statistics. -
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. -
Native Americans in the 21st century: Nation Building II community research projects
Awardees plan to support and extend a multidisciplinary, experiential learning course on community building in indigenous cultures. -
H20: Adaptable digital textbooks
Awardees plan to develop further their online H20 platform for digital textbook design and distribution. -
Case-based learning and teaching: A practice-based, peer-driven approach to sophomore tutorial
Awardee plans to assess her departments’ new sophomore tutorial program, investigate its generalizability to other departments, and create a “Hauser sophomore scholar” program. -
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. -
Quests for wisdom: Religious, moral, and aesthetic searches for the art of living
Awardees plan to design, fund, and assess a new interdisciplinary, cross-school course on “wisdom for the art of living” that seeks to transform students’ moral experiences through experiential learning.