Professor Levinson and the Justice in Schools team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education published new case studies earlier this semester addressing civic ethical dilemmas...
One mixed-method, exploratory study identified seven factors that enhance individuals’ motivation to take the perspective of others, defined as social perspective taking (SPT), including the desire to relate to others and to understand what others think of them.
A study tested the use of case studies with and without follow-up discussion, finding that the discussion group’s social interaction and sharing of conflicting ideas were the source of changes in thinking.
A recently published paper by VPAL-Research Menschel Senior Research Scientist Yigal Rosen highlighted the importance of group composition in collaborative assignments, and the potential to create more balanced (and effective) groups by including interactive computer-based agents.
One study investigating undergraduate medical students’ experiences of empathy determined that ability can be enhanced by educational interventions and that instructor role-modeling was the most important influence
Researchers describe and analyze a model for developing student–staff partnerships to enhance teaching and learning, where students act as consultants providing timely and focused feedback to instructors on aspects of their practice, finding that face-to-face follow-up meetings produced the best...
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching annual conference is an event designed to engage Harvard faculty (and some students and academic professionals) in a university-level dialogue about teaching and learning innovation.
Researchers explored collaborative curricular design as a form of instructor professional development, identifying three key process features: situatedness (how closely related the task is to the instructor’s work or class); agency (if they are actively involved in problem definition and...
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Teaching and Learning Lab offers a number of case-studies on gathering and implementing student feedback, including during a course.
Canvas enables instructors to import content from existing course sites for use in new course sites (importing content from another instructor’s site requires the help of local academic support staff).
A recent synthesis of 1200 meta-analyses estimates that about 50% of the variance in learning is a function of what the student brings to the classroom,...
The Harvard Business School’s Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning offers guidelines for questioning, listening, and responding for faculty leading class discussion.
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Teaching and Learning Lab Newsletter from spring 2017 highlights protocols instructors have used to facilitate discussion with a resource guide.
