The Graduate Multimedia Fellows Seminar is a new Teaching Certificate course offered at the Bok Center with the support of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. Over the course of the spring semester, the course will train graduate students in the theories, research, and skills necessary to design and evaluate multimedia assignments. Fellows will…
Many TFs teach in courses that require students to complete multimedia assignments (videos, podcasts, websites, etc.), but these TFs often have few opportunities to learn how to create and grade these assignments. Thanks to a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, that’s about to change. This spring the Bok Center will offer…
In early June, the Bok Center hosted a talk by Dr. Samuel T. Moulton, Director of Educational Research and Assessment at Harvard University and part of the team implementing the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. Dr. Moulton reviewed the research (more than 4000 articles!) that underlies the design and implementation of student ratings systems.…
Regarding the time we spend teaching, one HILT presenter asked, Assuming we see increases in teaching productivity (faster grading, more efficient learning) thanks to technological change, what are we going to do with productivity gains? What are we going to do with our free time? What do you think? How would your teaching change if…
“One of the ways we could gradually strengthen the culture of teaching at Harvard generally is to put more focus on the way we teach our PhD students to prepare for their teaching, which addresses exactly what you said isn’t systematically done. . . . I think that would not only have the benefit of…
“When people see success, they want to emulate it.” “The challenge for the innovators . . . is to be an evangelist among your colleagues.” -Alan Garber, HILT Symposium, Feb. 3, 2012
“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…
“We also need to be more creative in how we fund our initiatives. Can we build in benefits to our partners so that they’re willing to shoulder the cost of our innovations?” – Youngme Moon, HILT Symposium, Feb. 3, 2012
“Our capacity to reach others, to grow, is inhibited by the fact that our unit price keeps growing as well. This is an issue . . . we all have to worry about. How can we do better in ways that extend our influence but don’t simultaneous price us out of the market?” – Larry…
“We need to be at least as attentive to imagining how we can enhance education without also building in more fixed costs.” – Larry Bacow, HILT Symposium, Feb. 3, 2012
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