Explore video and resources from the 2019 Conference on peer learning
Unable to join us on September 27th? Want to see footage of a session you were unable to attend? Looking for resources on peer learning developed for the event? Browse conference video and related materials on the HILT website!
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Pilot Funds: Round 2 applications due 12/1
This funding is for Harvard and MIT students who are interested in education innovation globally. The application for Round 2 is now open and must be completed by Sunday, December 1 at 11:59 PM to be considered. Eligibility for funding requires a 30-minute meeting with one of our SMART Fellows prior to December 6th. Learn more on the Operation Impact website! |
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This section features various tools, resources, and innovations in teaching and learning available to the Harvard community. Spotlights will include materials developed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) and resources or innovations created with HILT funding or emerging from HILT events.
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Itero was born out of a research project aimed at understanding how revision history and summative analytics of the writing process can affect the behavior and outcomes of writers, supported by a HILT Spark Grant. The platform leverages detailed revision history data collected by Google Docs to power analytics and visualizations that help students and teachers better understand the writing process.
Features include:
- Analytics: Writing metrics and visualizations summarizing both character level and aggregate writing behavior.
- Replay: Character level revision data allow for playback of any google doc; one can observe their own writing or feedback from others.
- Research: Analytics and replay are used as intervention mechanisms for studying writing behavior and writer self-efficacy.
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Last Week in Into Practice
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Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed to active instructors during the academic year, was inspired by a successful HILT grant project. The e-letter highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice, contributing to and strengthening a University-wide community of practice around teaching. See the most recent issues here.
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Mutually beneficial partnerships
  Robert S. Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and Ariel Dora Stern, Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration pair student groups with local hospitals to address challenges related to access, adoption of new delivery methods, and the quality of care in their elective course, Transforming Healthcare Delivery. This applied work is rooted in a series of cases that have been written by Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty and articles that cover broader ideas from the literature and previous research. Continue reading the full article here. |
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Upcoming Teaching & Learning Events
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 Instructional Moves Live
Beyond The Paper Chase: Learning from Legal Pedagogy
Monday, November 18: 4:00pm—5:30pm
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larsen Hall 106
What techniques do law professors use for questioning, listening, and responding? When can such approaches be leveraged by instructors in other disciplines? How can we make these strategies our own? Please join us for the new Instructional Moves (IM) Live series to explore these questions. In this session, Professor Rakoff (pictured) will facilitate a discussion of a short case he uses with his students on their first day of Law School. We also will watch a brief video of that HLS class in action, and collectively reflect on his instructional strategies and their implications for our own practice. In advance of the session, please RSVP here and read this two-page case. Free and open to the public. Note: This event will be videotaped and photographed.
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 Supporting VR Pedagogy Initiatives across Harvard
Immersive Design: Concept-to-3D print workflows using virtual reality
Tuesday, November 19: 10:30am–11:30am
Cabot Science Library, Discovery Bar
Imagine a studio with infinite raw materials, endless canvas space, and an instantly accessible tool kit. These benefits are combined and realized in a recently released suite of VR-based design software including Gravity Sketch, Tiltbrush, Masterpiece VR, and Oculus Medium. By allowing for the simultaneous extrusion, translation, and rotation of digital “clay,” these platforms empower those who may lack traditional CAD/CAM experience to quickly develop and fabricate 3D printable prototypes, products, art objects, and much more. Join a small group of fellow creators for a workshop that explores the benefits of immersive design and lays out, step-by-step, how to fabricate physical outputs from virtual materials using newly available Harvard Libraries resources, including Oculus Quest headsets and 3D printing services now being piloted at Cabot Science Library. Registration required.
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 Learning Design Affinity Group
Lunch & Learn Webinar Series
Wednesday, November 20: 12:00pm—1:00pm
Via Zoom
Join the webinar to learn from panelists about digital accessibility in learning design. We’ll discuss accessibility from the perspective of learning design, from policy to practice, with examples and resources you can use tomorrow and for future projects.
Participants include Kenton Doyle, from HUIT Web Publishing & Digital Accessibility Services; Amy Maltzan and Seth Merriam from the Center for Workplace Development (with an accessibility improvement example); and Amy Deschenes, Head of UX & Digital Accessibility, Harvard Library.
The recording from the October 23 Lunch & Learn webinar on policy and practice for learning data in learning design, is now available online (HarvardKey required).
The HILT Learning Design Affinity Group is requesting poster session proposals for the December 11th event to feature examples of how you or your team have worked to improve learner equity. Equitable learning designs are those which remove barriers to learning and actively account for individual differences to support diversity, inclusion and belonging. Examples might include accommodations to enhance course accessibility, technologies that facilitate fairer classroom interactions, or methods of addressing variability in the prior knowledge of learners. Please respond by completing this Qualtrics form by November 18th. You may submit more than one idea; just fill out the form again!
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 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Dudley Herschbach Teacher/Scientist Lecture: “Engaging our Students in Science via Flipped Classes, Science Fiction, and MOOCs”
Wednesday, December 11: 4:00pm
Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Hall
The Herschbach teacher/scientist lecture series recognizes scholars who excel both as scientists and as educators. The lecture series honors emeritus professor Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel-prize winning chemist and a devoted educator and is hosted by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning. This event will feature Dr. Mohamed Noor, Dean of Natural Sciences and Professor of Biology, Duke University. Read more about the event here.
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 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Gen Ed Course Design Institute
Tuesday, January 7—Thursday, January 9 and Wednesday, January 15—Thursday, January 16
Are you developing or revising your Gen Ed course? There’s no need to go it alone! Join a cohort of 10–12 colleagues working on their assignments and syllabi at the Bok Center’s Gen Ed Course Design Institute! Funded by a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation, the institute will meet for three hours/day over five days. Visit the Institute Canvas site and Register Now.
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 The Learning Incubator (LInc)
LInc Faculty Fellowships: Call for Applications!
Submission deadline: Monday, February 10
The Learning Incubator (LInc) is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for LInc Faculty Fellowships for the 2020-2021 Academic Year. Through the Faculty Fellowships, LInc aims to positively influence learning and teaching at Harvard and contribute to a growing community focused on intellectual inquiry around learning and teaching. A LInc Faculty Fellowship permits faculty to dedicate time normally devoted to teaching a course to the redesign of an existing course/ design of a new course so as to implement new research-based pedagogies and improve learning gains. Learn more about LInc Faculty Fellowships.
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