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Analyzing long-term retention of information in science gateway course
Awardees will administer a survey to Harvard College graduates to analyze the long-term retention of the concepts and abilities taught in a gateway science course. -
Bridging education research and practice using online learning modules
Awardees will explore the best-performing sequences of instructional materials in both controlled studies and in the context of real online courses. -
Elective in primary care medicine and teaching
Awardees will pilot an advanced elective in primary care medicine and teaching, where senior medical students tutor junior medical students in clinical skills, with assessment of its benefits to both students enrolled in the elective and the junior students they tutor. -
Understanding how hackathon methodology drives participatory design pedagogy
Awardees will explore the “hackathon” as a participatory learning and engagement strategy to bring together members of the Harvard community and beyond. -
Teaching rewriting
Awardees explored the potential impact of a writing instruction method that emphasizes the editorial and revision process, which has the potential advantages of scalability and skill transferability. -
LINK: Preparing students to evaluate evidence and navigate real world issues
Awardees will refine six skill-building exercises intended to help students more effectively interpret evidence, and disseminate them to the Harvard teaching community. -
Getting learners to AskUp: Enhancing education through learner-generated questions
Awardees will develop an online platform – “AskUp” – using evidence-based techniques to facilitate and enhance learning through learner-generated questions. -
The Videographic essay: Innovating a multimedia pedagogical tool for 21st Century scholarship
Awardee will articulate the scholarly development of the use of the “videographic essay” as a method for communicating knowledge, compiling research, and synthesizing arguments, and organize a 2015 special workshop on multimedia methods. -
Explaining things differently: A Crowdsourcing approach
Awardees will build a crowdsourced repository of video tutorial explanations of key course topics. -
Understanding the relationship between instructor performance and advice quality
Awardees will investigate the relationship between instructor performance and advice quality by comparing instructor performance on a series of web-based modules and the performance of “students” who completed the modules with instructor advice.
