Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed from the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning to active instructors during the academic year was inspired by a successful 2012 HILT grant project. The e-letter highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across Schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice, contributing to and strengthening a University-wide community of practice around teaching.

Below is a catalog of all the Into Practice issues sorted by the publication date. To subscribe to Into Practice, please sign-up via our Mailing List page.

• Capturing conversation to build ideas collectively

  Ryan Buell, Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, leveraged Scribble for his remote course to help students engage with case discussion longitudinally and collectively. The virtual board platform allowed students to engage online in lieu of an in-person experience in which the blackboard operates as a coordinating element for case discussion. “It helps students put the pieces together, allowing them to track any idea shared by the faculty and shared by the students.”

• Mutually beneficial partnerships

  Robert S. Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and Ariel Dora Stern, Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration pair student groups with local hospitals to address challenges related to access, adoption of new delivery methods, and the quality of care in their elective course, Transforming Healthcare Delivery. This applied work is rooted in a series of cases that have been written by Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty and articles that cover broader ideas from the literature and previous research.

• Teacher Employment Fund: Curriculum Refinement

  Teacher Employment Fund: Curriculum Refinement Awardees:Peggy Walenda Mativo (HBS) and Rachel Luo (MIT-Architecture) Summary coming soon. 

• GenUnity

  GenUnity is a civic leadership experience that empowers individuals to affect real, systemic change in their community.

• First GrAID

  First GrAID is a digital platform where children can learn about health and safety in a gamified manner that is both fun for them and convenient for their parents.

• ELEVATE

  ELEVATE seeks to create an online learning platform that leverages adaptive teaching to scale effective, personalized professional development in large, urban districts.

• My Dental Key

  Dental Key is an online learning tool for clinical dental education.

• Catalyst

  Catalyst is an online educational platform focusing on English for the K-6 segment in Indonesia.

• ADITUM

  ADITUM is a medical e-learning platform

• Pillow Fort

  We are developing personalized books that solve problems for parents looking to create teachable moments on difficult topics and improve vocabulary retention, and solve problems for gift givers who want a gift that they know the kid they are buying for will love.

• OCULIS

  Oculis is a platform to address the lack of financial literacy in the classroom.

• ACE: Accelerating Civic Engagement

  ACE seeks to reignite civic engagement nationally by empowering individuals to learn about, participate in, and lead their local communities.

• Utopia

  The vision of Utopia is to provide the high-quality curated content for early childhood development.

• Bonsai

   Bonsai is a personalized and adaptive solution that develops SEL skills in middle school students by encouraging them to engage in microlearning activities.

• LovelyBooks

  Awardees plan to bring technology and research (e.g. customization of morals by parents, illustrating children directly into books to increase engagement etc) to improve the learning outcomes generated by children's picture books.

• C2B: Classroom to Boardroom

  C2B seeks to provide an immersive training program designed in close collaboration with rapidly growing industries (i.e. tech-focused companies). Awardees want to help organizations recruit and retain talents that will help increase productivity and achieve higher rate of sustainable growth.

• MythOS

  MythOS is addressing the growing gap in social and emotional skills among adolescents who are not being served by traditional social activities (sports, theater, etc.) but are instead consumed by digital entertainment. MythOS is using games that resonate with digitally-focused adolescents to drive home social and emotional skills.

• Christensen Center: Teaching by the Case Method

  This section of the Christensen Center website explores the Case Method in Practice along the following dimensions: i) Preparing to Teach; ii) Leading in the Classroom; iii) Providing Assessment; and iv) Feedback Sample Class. Each subsection provides perspectives and guidance through a written overview, supplemented by video commentary from experienced case method instructors. Where relevant, links are included to downloadable documents produced by the Christensen Center or Harvard Business School Publishing. References for further reading are provided as well.

• Cultivating the skill and the orientation to listen

  Joshua Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration, demands of himself intensive listening while teaching, and asks the same from students: “When I listen really carefully it allows me to push students hard and help them see what they have within themselves.”

• From the source: Guest speakers in the classroom

  David Garvin, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration,utilizes guest speakers in General Management: Processes and Action in order to promote deeper understanding of managerial and organizational realities.