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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. -
Improving learning experiences by building cooperative environments in classrooms
Awardees will use classroom simulations to study helpful behavioral economic interventions toward increased learning and cooperation in classrooms. -
Teaching genomics across Harvard schools
Awardees will establish the “Harvard Genomics Teaching Group,” share pedagogical approaches, a dedicated platform for analysis, and document best practices. -
WSI/ELP water policy learning project
Awardees plan to involve students in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative project on water policy in an effort to use experiential and team-based learning to teach students vital professional skills. -
Learning and teaching negotiation and conflict resolution skills to enhance patient safety in the OR
Awardees plan to enable learners to apply principles of negotiation and conflict resolution in the high-stakes operating room environment, with the ultimate goal of improving medical teamwork and patient safety. -
Leadership and authority in groups: An innovative and experiential leadership development collaboration
Awardees plan to design multidisciplinary workshops that use experiential learning to teach participants about group dynamics and leadership. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Enhancing learning through hands-on exploration in a dynamic cross-disciplinary geospatial web platform
Awardees plan to further develop WorldMap’s functionalities (e.g., add discussion features) using existing staff at the Center of Geographic Analysis. -
The digital archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters as a teaching tool and laboratory course
Awardees plan to further develop the Japan Digital Archive project and design a Fall 2013 lab course that capitalizes on the improved platform. -
Curriculum mapping projects across Harvard
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and teaching (HILT) hosted its Speaker Series on June 4, 2018 in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall featuring Curriculum Mapping projects from across Harvard. -
Integrating my online course to improve the classroom experience
Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett shared how she utilizes her HarvardX online course, Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching, as pre-matriculation material in HGSE’s campus-based Data Wise Leadership Institute. -
2017 HILT Conference
HILT's sixth Annual Conference on "Evaluating teaching," held on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 in Wasserstein Hall explored various facets of evaluating teaching effectiveness at Harvard and beyond that incorporate partnerships between academic professional staff and faculty toward improving teaching and learning.