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Transforming team-learning teaching cases for online platforms: scaling up an e-learning module development project to expand reach across Harvard and to public health professionals in field settings
Awardees will extend the transformation of traditional to online cases across Harvard by developing a new e-module for delivering teaching cases on-line to public health professionals in field settings, and convening a cross-Harvard workshop to share best practices. -
Assessing learning outcomes from a novel formative assessment in a large enrollment graduate life science course
Awardees will evaluate whether delivering a chalk talk in response to an open-ended experimental design question is an effective method to drive improvements in the general practice and articulation of experimental design, as measured through responses to subsequent written experimental design questions. -
Evaluating methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking: A mixed methods study of faculty and students across Harvard University
Awardees will conduct a mixed methods study analyzing the teaching and learning of critical thinking skills at Harvard—the differences in approaches across Schools, and faculty and student perceptions of critical thinking instruction and assessment. -
Understanding the impact of using mechanistic concept mapping as a collaborative learning tool
Awardee conducted a mixed-methods study in HMS course Homeostasis I. -
Transforming team-learning teaching cases in public health for online platforms: an e-learning module development project
Awardees transformed STRIPED teaching cases for online delivery, consistent with digital learning research and toward expanded outreach to working professionals. -
Bridging education research and practice using online learning modules
Awardees will explore the best-performing sequences of instructional materials in both controlled studies and in the context of real online courses. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Improving statistics literacy in graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the life sciences
Awardees will study misconceptions about statistics in a high-enrollment life science course and develop a related computer-based module.
