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Graduate Writing Oasis
Awardee ran a year-long Writing Oasis program, based on a successful pilot offering, to provide dedicated time and collaboration for graduate students in their dissertation writing. -
New methods for hands-on teaching in the history of technology
Awardee developed experiential learning opportunities for students in history of technology courses, including in-class demonstration and simulation. -
Creating real-time connections in online courses
Awardees evaluated types of interactivity between faculty and students and generated a resource guide of best practices to assist instructors in interacting with online and residential students in Canvas. -
DIY flipping kit: Blended learning in the context of Canvas
Awardees created a “do it yourself” flipping kit to help faculty across the University develop blended learning materials using Canvas. -
Bottom-up pedagogy
Awardees will develop, expand, and improve a new approach to legal education (and higher education generally) that is more problem-oriented, team-driven, and experiential than are traditional and conventional pedagogical methods. -
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. -
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. -
Explaining things differently: A Crowdsourcing approach
Awardees will build a crowdsourced repository of video tutorial explanations of key course topics. -
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.
