Teaching and Learning Consortium
The HILT Teaching and Learning Consortium (TLC) convenes key representatives from across the University, inclusive of all Schools as well as units like the libraries, museums, and HarvardX. TLC members...
View ArticleTransforming team-learning teaching cases for online platforms: scaling up an...
Awardees: S. Bryn Austin (HMS-CH), Chris Dede (HGSE), Holly Gooding (HMS-BWH), Megan Kipp (M.Ed. ’10), Lori Garg (HMS-CH), Adrienne Phelps-Coco (DCE), and Karina Lin (DCE)Summary: Awardees will extend...
View ArticleTeach Anywhere: a portable kit that converts any space into a...
Awardees: Logan McCarty and Melissa Franklin (FAS)Summary: Awardees will create and evaluate portable “Teach Anywhere” kits that convert any space into a flexible learning environment and address...
View ArticleSLab 2.0
Awardee: Alexander Rehding (FAS)Summary: Awardee will upgrade and expand the Sound Studios Lab (SLab) to explore the medium of sound in teaching and learning.Professor Rehding will build upon his...
View ArticleAskUp: Improving learning and metacognition through learner-generated questions
Awardees: Jonathan Hausmann (HMS-BIDMC), Elliott Yates (CADM-HUIT), Katherine Loboda (College), and Eli Miloslavsky (HMS-MGH)Summary: Awardees will continue development of AskUp, a free, open-source...
View ArticleHILT announces 2017 Advance Grant awards
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:
View Article2016 Conference
HILT's fifth Annual Conference was held on Friday, September 30, 2016 in Wasserstein Hall. Thank you to those of you who joined us! Please see full conference program, breakout session descriptions,...
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Perspective-taking and humility training with medical case studies
This post is republished from Into Practice, a biweekly communication of Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in LearningDr. Sadath Sayeed, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social...
View ArticleAffinity Groups
The TLC network convenes Affinity Groups around shared teaching and learning interests and professional objectives. Harvard affiliates are welcome to join Affinity Groups at the links below to receive...
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Engaging students in a course postmortem dialogue
This post is republished from Into Practice, a biweekly communication of Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in LearningAlfred Guzzetti, Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts, dedicates...
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A balancing act: Making established courses your own
This post is republished from Into Practice, a biweekly communication of Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in LearningKarin Öberg, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy,...
View ArticleProject Nights and open-ended design research
Awardees: Madeline Hickman, Elaine Kristant (SEAS), Robert Hart, and Daniel Rosenberg (FAS)Summary: Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning.
View ArticleThe Diversity Journal Club
Awardee: Nia Imara (FAS)Summary: Awardee will pilot a Diversity Journal Club (DJC) to understand how diversity issues impact learning, teaching, research, and culture in the science community.
View ArticleVirtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy
Awardees: Nicole Mills, Rus Gant (FAS), and Chris Dede (HGSE)Summary: Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives.
View ArticleTeam-based learning in the humanities
Awardee: Bernhard Nickel (FAS)Summary: Awardee will redesign a course with team-based learning (TBL) principles and assess the benefits and challenges of the approach.
View Article“Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking
Awardees: Megan Panzano and Lisa Haber-Thomson (GSD/FAS)Summary: Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making.
View ArticleAssessing learning outcomes from a novel formative assessment in a large...
Awardees: Madhvi Venkatesh and Ronald Jason Heustis (HMS)Summary: Awardees will evaluate whether delivering a chalk talk in response to an open-ended experimental design question is an effective method...
View ArticleHow digital education transforms residential teaching: Systematic analysis of...
Awardees: Tiffany Wong, Drew Lichtenstein, and Selen Turkay (CADM)Summary: Awardees will synthesize instructors’ pedagogically relevant experiences and lessons learned making Massive Online Open...
View ArticleChoice architecture: When students become designers of optimal decision...
Awardee: Jennifer Lerner (HKS)Summary: Awardee will develop in-class and online activities to improve student decision-making and increase classroom engagement.
View ArticleEight HILT Spark Grants for Collaboration, Research, and Engagement awards...
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:
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