The HILT website compiles teaching and learning resources across the University. Search for Resources allows you to browse those resources pertaining to a specific role or enter a search term in the search bar. In this context, “teaching and learning resource” includes a broad range of offerings—from profiles featuring effective practices to grant-funded projects to larger initiatives and organizations.
| Title | Institutional Home ? | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Geospatial education at Harvard: A new course in mapping and spatial perspectives | FAS | Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis. |
| Faculty Focus on Teaching: A collaborative venture to develop pedagogic insights, ambitions, and techniques | HGSE | Awardee plans to create an online, video-based process for analyzing and sharing effective teaching strategies among faculty colleagues. |
| Making classroom minutes count | CROSS | Awardees plan to use active learning strategies, peer instruction, and “flipped classrooms” to transform the core curriculum of their school’s flagship degree program. |
| Learning from leaders: Weaving a leadership narrative into the educational experience | HSPH | Awardees plan to edit existing video of influential lectures into pedagogically-relevant clips, and create a user-friendly interface to enable faculty to better use these videos in their courses. |
| Graduate multimedia fellows program | FAS | Awardees plan to organize a graduate multimedia fellows program that trains teaching fellows to evaluate and advise students’ on multimedia projects. |
| Teaching with things: Curation, hybrid multimedia, and object-oriented pedagogy | CROSS | Awardees plan to expand an existing curatorial program at metaLAB and the museums to support object-based teaching in the humanities. |
| Einstein reversed | FAS | Awardee redesigned his Gen Ed course on the Einsteinian revolution, using video-recorded content to “flip the classroom." |
| A Pilot in mathematics enrichment to increase pathways to STEM | FAS | Awardee implemented a large-scale version of a successful pilot “book club” aimed at lower level math students to create an environment to practice and experiment with advanced concepts. |
| Test-enhanced learning: Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education | FAS | Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education. Awardees plan to study how formative assessment can be better used in lecture courses to promote learning. |
| Transforming education through computer vision analysis and automated assessment | SEAS | Awardees plan to develop tools for automatically analyzing student behavior, promoting richer interactions between students and teachers, and optimizing peer instruction in large lecture classes. |