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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 […] |
| Mastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing | CROSS H | Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we better learn and teach it? |
| Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning | CROSS H | Carnegie Mellon University's Assistant Professor, Chinmay Kulkarni discusses his research with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and advances in the science of learning. |
| 2015 HILT Conference | CROSS H | The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching Annual Conference was held on Friday, September 25th at Batten Hall. This year's event was constructed to build on prior themes, but reflect HILT's strategically phased approach to its work. Specifically, a shift from "launching and catalyzing" to "deepening and documenting" the impact of innovative teaching and learning. |
| Linking Learning Outcomes and Topics across the Undergraduate Curriculum | CROSS H | This talk discusses two ongoing educational projects aimed at linking topics and outcomes across the undergraduate curriculum. |