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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enhancing student team effectiveness | HLS | Awardees plan to use online assessments to improve team effectiveness and provide students with informative feedback about their role as team members. |
| H20: Adaptable digital textbooks | HLS | Awardees plan to develop further their online H20 platform for digital textbook design and distribution. |
| Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership | FAS | Awardees plan to develop innovative methodology and curricula to promote the use of visual art in language classes. |
| Transforming stories and public health lessons of Ashland, MA, into a multimedia case for learning | CROSS | Awardees plan to create (using Zeega software) a multimedia “case” that better integrates quantitative and qualitative information, for use in a public health course and as a model for next-generation case-based teaching. |
| Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses | SEAS | Expanding existing innovative program for assessing student learning in hands-on innovation courses. Awardee plans to advance methods for better assessing how teams interact and ideas develop during experiential learning in multi-disciplinary engineering classes focused on design and innovation. |
| Development of a multimedia textbook | FAS | Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course. |
| SciBox 1.0: An innovative, experimental learning space inspiring creative approaches to teaching | FAS | Awardees plan to redesign a 2,500 sq ft space in the Science Center into an experimental "black-box" classroom that could be used for existing classes beginning in Spring 2013. |
| Forgetting as a Friend of Learning | CROSS H |
Forgetting as a Friend of Learning: Implications for teaching and self-regulated learning Speakers: Dr. Robert A. Bjork, UCLA Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 1:30pm Location: William James Hall 105 It is natural to think that learning is a matter of building up skills or knowledge in one’s memory and that forgetting is a matter of […] |
| Research-based principles for multimedia learning | CROSS H | People learn more deeply from words and graphics than from words alone. This assertion can be called the multimedia principle, and it forms the basis for using multimedia instruction. |
| A Conversation between Susan Singer and Harvard Science Faculty about Improving Undergraduate Science Education | CROSS |
A Conversation between Susan Singer and Harvard Science Faculty about Improving Undergraduate Science Education Speakers: Susan R. Singer, Carleton College and National Science Foundation Date: Friday, May 1, 2015, 2:00pm to 3:30pm Location: By invitation only Susan Rundell Singer Susan Rundell Singer is Division Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at NSF and Laurence […] |