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 |
|---|---|---|
| Revision history analytics in service of analyzing the writing process | CENT | Awardees analyzed revision patterns in student writing, how they relate to activities within specific passages of a written text, and how revision-history analytics can play a role in supporting teaching and improvement in writing skills. |
| Bridging the gap between statistics courses and practice | HSPH | Awardee bridged the gap between statistics courses and students’ ability to implement concepts in their own work with a student-run consulting service to be permanently housed in the Biostatistics Department. |
| Evaluating methods of teaching and assessing critical thinking: A mixed methods study of faculty and students across Harvard University | CROSS | 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. |
| The Diversity Journal Club | FAS | Awardee will pilot a Diversity Journal Club (DJC) to understand how diversity issues impact learning, teaching, research, and culture in the science community. |
| Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy | CROSS | Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives. |
| AskUp: Improving learning and metacognition through learner-generated questions | CROSS | Awardees will continue development of AskUp, a free, open-source studying and learning app that leverages evidence-based techniques to enhance learning, and will evaluate the efficacy of the application’s improvement to metacognition, self-directed learning, and class performance through small randomized trials. |
| Whiteness: An Ethnographic Question | FAS | Awardee will use an ethnographic lens to spark an interdisciplinary and intergenerational conversation on the role of whiteness in research, pedagogy, and institutional life. |
| Making “Inclass” into a campus-wide educational technology app store | DCE | Awardee will scale the availability of the SEAS educational technology (edtech) app store across the University. |
| Hedera: A personalized vocabulary database and readability gauge | FAS | Hedera facilitates the application of second language acquisition research to teaching and learning by enabling users to maintain custom lists of known vocabulary and analyzing texts to see what percentage of words the user knows. |
| Phillips Brooks House Association | FAS H | As a student-run organization, PBHA draws upon the creative initiative of students and community members to foster collaboration that empowers individuals and communities. |