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Harvard Writes: A digital teaching and learning platform for better undergraduate academic writing
Awardee plans to develop a digital learning and teaching platform (“Harvard Writes”) for students and instructors to improve undergraduate academic writing by addressing the problem of knowledge transfer. -
Einstein reversed
Awardee redesigned his Gen Ed course on the Einsteinian revolution, using video-recorded content to “flip the classroom." -
Portraits in multimedia: A social engagement project in African and African American Studies
Awardees plan to create a digital archive of “social portraits” (short video interviews with African leaders and residents) for widespread use in humanities courses. -
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. -
A Model for teaching and curriculum development informed by the theatrical process
Awardees plan to host a series of professional workshops and roundtables that connect the dramatic arts with teaching. -
Case-based learning and teaching: A practice-based, peer-driven approach to sophomore tutorial
Awardee plans to assess her departments’ new sophomore tutorial program, investigate its generalizability to other departments, and create a “Hauser sophomore scholar” program. -
SciBox 1.0: An innovative, experimental learning space inspiring creative approaches to teaching
Awardees plan to redesign a 2,500 sq ft space in the Science Center into an experimental "black-box" classroom that could be used for existing classes beginning in Spring 2013. -
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.
