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The Video Essay as a Learning Tool in Field Based Courses and Design Courses
Awardees will explore the video essay as an integrative teaching tool in field-based and design-oriented courses. -
Teaching Decision-Making through Experiential Learning and Personalized Practice Across Disciplines
Awardees will study how decision-making is taught and assessed across disciplines and disseminate effective teaching methods. -
Helping students and faculty to optimize preparation for the flipped classroom: using efficiency metrics
Awardee will use efficiency metrics to study the best preparation methods for a flipped classroom. -
Transforming team-learning teaching cases for online platforms: scaling up an e-learning module development project to expand reach across Harvard and to public health professionals in field settings
Awardees will extend the transformation of traditional to online cases across Harvard by developing a new e-module for delivering teaching cases on-line to public health professionals in field settings, and convening a cross-Harvard workshop to share best practices. -
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. -
Assessing learning outcomes from a novel formative assessment in a large enrollment graduate life science course
Awardees will evaluate whether delivering a chalk talk in response to an open-ended experimental design question is an effective method to drive improvements in the general practice and articulation of experimental design, as measured through responses to subsequent written experimental design questions. -
Team-based learning in the humanities
Awardee will redesign a course with team-based learning (TBL) principles and assess the benefits and challenges of the approach. -
Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy
Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives. -
Choice architecture: When students become designers of optimal decision processes
Awardee will develop in-class and online activities to improve student decision-making and increase classroom engagement. -
The Diversity Journal Club
Awardee will pilot a Diversity Journal Club (DJC) to understand how diversity issues impact learning, teaching, research, and culture in the science community.
