Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
Welcome to VPAL
The Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning creates and catalyzes deeply engaging and scalable learning experiences that make a difference at Harvard and beyond.
"Health Care Economics is an amazing course. The professor did a fantastic job dissecting the complexities of health care into chewable chunks that made it easier to understand the complexities."
Howard H. Dinh, MD, FACC
Health Care Economics Learner, Sacramento, CA
Save the Date: 2026 HILT Conference
The 2026 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Conference will be held at the David Rubenstein Treehouse in Allston, MA, on Friday, September 25, 2026. Registration for the conference will open in late August. Check back on the HILT website for updates. Questions? Email hilt@harvard.edu.
Annual Report 2025
We invite you to explore the 2025 Annual Report of the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.
Featured Course
Data Science Principles is a Harvard Online course that gives you an overview of data science with a code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics.
