“How do we foster a true culture of teaching and learning? We have obstacles: to be a kindergarten teacher, you have to be certified. To be a lawyer, a doctor, you have to be certified. But to teach the next generation of intellectual leaders, all you need is a PhD – you’re expected to know…
The current issue of Harvard Magazine includes a profile of Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Eric Mazur, who is among those leading efforts to transform the way Harvard students learn. Professor Mazur has long been an advocate of the use of clickers and pioneered the implementation of peer instruction. (Also featured in the article…
“The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.” – Eric Mazur, HILT Symposium, Feb. 3, 2012
Last Friday, hundreds of Harvard faculty, administrators, and graduate students gathered in the Northwest Building to celebrate and criticize higher education. As the first public manifestation of the recent $40 million gift by Gustave and Rita Hauser that established the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), the HILT Symposium launched a high-profile effort to make…
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