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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. -
New educational opportunities at Harvard through online behavioral research
Ken Nakayama (psychology), Krzysztof Gajos (computer science), and Ryan Enos (government) will create web-based modules for a variety of classroom contexts that can be utilized flexibly by students and instructors to actively participate in behavioral research. -
Digital Teaching Fellow program
Awardees will expand the digital teaching fellow program from one to at least seven departments in the humanities and social sciences, pairing students with faculty to develop a variety of course-related digital projects, encouraging pedagogical experimentation in digital active learning, multi-media assignments, and unique faculty-student collaboration. -
Assessing the impact of an innovative curriculum at Harvard Medical School: A new paradigm for medical education
Awardees will evaluate the impact of curriculum renewal at HMS and develop a model for educational assessment by analyzing student data of cohorts from both the previous curriculum and the new curriculum being implemented in 2015. -
New models for evaluating learning outcomes in digital humanities teaching
Awardees will host a workshop around opportunities and challenges in digital humanities teaching, applying lessons learned to the assessment of metaLAB platforms. -
A Virtual public forum and online resource platform for speaking and communication
Awardees will film a series of interviews (inspired by "Harvard Writes") to convene a campus-wide conversation on the role of spoken communication in teaching, scholarship, and collaboration. -
From text to multimedia: Evaluating a scalable enhancement model for problem-based learning
Awardees will conduct a comparison study to identify the impact of multimedia enhancements of case materials on student preparation and engagement. -
Online learning models matrix
Awardee will convene a group of faculty and staff to study and document the current range of online learning models and disseminate a matrix of findings that will inform pedagogical strategies and production activities.
