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.
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| SEAS “Active Learning Lab” | SEAS | The SEAS academic plan emphasizes the need for hands-on engineering experiences and student design projects. The Active Learning Laboratories are expected to take the lead and excel in supporting these student experiences. |
| Easy Innovations | CROSS H | A product of the 2016 HILT Annual Conference, Easy Innovation is a collection of small-scale teaching innovations shared by Harvard faculty. |
| Harvard will evaluate its effectiveness on the road to reaccreditation |
January 17, 2017. Even universities get report cards. Every decade or so, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) has its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) review Harvard for reaccreditation. The University was last reaccredited in 2009, and produced an interim report on the results in 2013. The process is an […] |
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| Teaching method encourages students to share what didn’t work, and to figure out how to do it differently and better. |
April 5, 2017. Ronald Heifetz, co-founder of the Center for Public Leadership and King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis — in which students develop and collaboratively analyze cases drawn from their own work experiences of failure — to promote […] |
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| HILT announces 2017 Advance Grant awards |
April 14, 2017. The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) announced four Advance Grant awards, support of up to $25K designed to extend the success of prior HILT grant projects. Awardees will: Assess and refine a tool for student questioning. Jonathan Hausmann (HMS-BIDMC), Elliott Yates (CADM-HUIT), Katherine Loboda (College), and Eli Miloslavsky (HMS-MGH) will improve […] |
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| HILT announces 2017 Spark Grants for Collaboration, Research, and Engagement Awards |
June 19, 2017. The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) awarded eight Spark Grants with support of up to 15K designed to help “spark” promising teaching and learning projects. Awardees will: Develop hybrid activities for the classroom. Jennifer Lerner (HKS) will design in-class and online activities to improve student decision making and increase classroom […] |
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| Study of collaborative writing | HGSE | Using Virtual Machines to Track Collaborative Writing Assignments |
| Integrating consequential simulations in coursework | FAS | Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation |
| Flipping Kit | HKS H | This is custom search result summary text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. |
| Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity | CENT H | The Office of Faculty Development & Diversity is Harvard’s central faculty affairs office. We work with colleagues in the Schools to guide and coordinate policies and practices in all areas of faculty affairs, with the aim of increasing accountability and measurable progress in diversifying Harvard's faculty. FD&D's main mission is to develop, implement, and evaluate University-wide programs designed to improve faculty life and diversity, and to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on faculty appointments. |