Past Events

  • 2021 Feb 23

    When the Safety Net Pays for Itself with Nathan Hendren

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Event on Zoom

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    What types of policies most improve societal well-being? This talk seeks to answer this through an analysis of 133 economic policy changes in the US over the past half century. Hendren will show direct investments in low-income children have historically had the highest returns, in many cases paying for itself in the long run.

    Nathaniel Hendren is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights. His work is motivated by the question: Do markets provide equal opportunity? Using a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, he documents and evaluates the potential for opportunity in various situations including insurance markets and intergenerational mobility. His work seeks to understand when and why markets fail to provide opportunity, quantify the impact of these market failures, and provide tools to normatively evaluate potential policy solutions.... Read more about When the Safety Net Pays for Itself with Nathan Hendren

  • 2021 Jan 12

    Teaching in Unprecedented Times: A Fall 2020 Showcase

    Tue Jan 12 (All day) to Thu Jan 14 (All day)

    Location: 

    Virtual Event on Zoom

    Learning to Adapt, Adapting to Learn

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    Resources and Event Recordings

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, in partnership with Teaching and Learning Centers, hosted a University-wide virtual event series, "Teaching in Unprecedented Times: A Fall 2020 Showcase," to acknowledge this unprecedented semester and honor the efforts of our faculty, staff, and students; surfacesome of the most impactful teaching innovations that have occurred, and how some of the most nagging challenges have been addressed; and inform and inspire for the future.... Read more about Teaching in Unprecedented Times: A Fall 2020 Showcase

  • 2020 Apr 16

    Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics with Michael Sandel

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Event on Zoom

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    Join us for a lively discussion of the big social, ethical, and political questions raised by the COVID pandemic. In the first of a weekly series, Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory, will lead a University-wide discussion of Pandemic Ethics: Should we use surveillance technologies to monitor compliance with social distancing? If hospitals have too few ventilators for those in need, how should they be allocated?...

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  • 2015 Dec 05

    Annual Saturday of Symposia (Alumni Only)

    8:30am to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    374 Commonwealth Avenue, Harvard Club of Boston, Boston, MA 02215, United States

    First offered 35 years ago, the Saturday of Symposia features Harvard faculty members doing research across the University in fields ranging from social and natural sciences to the humanities. This year's program includes Vice Provost Peter Bol and faculty speakers Joyce Chaplin, Benjamin Friedman, Carol Saivetz, and Reginald Tucker-Seeley. Read more about the program below.

    The program is not only a longstanding tradition of the Harvard Club and HAA, but also an enormously popular one. As it tends to sell out, please make your reservations early.

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  • 2015 Jun 08

    Learning Spaces Week at Harvard

    Mon - Thu, Jun 8 to Jun 11, 9:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Campus

    Join colleagues from across the University for a week-long series of events and conversations around learning spaces at Harvard.

    Daily tours and demonstrations
    See exemplar learning spaces – oft-utilized and well-regarded by students and instructors – in all schools and University units (e.g. libraries and museums). 

    Daily presentations and panel discussions
    Hear from professionals via a series of presentations and panel discussions about the learning space design process –...

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  • 2015 Apr 02

    Web Accessibility with Peter Bol and Rich Schwerdtfeger

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University's Lamont Library in the Forum Room

    The Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative presents...

    Web Accessibility Session 

    • Peter K. Bol is Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. As Vice Provost, he is responsible for ...
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  • 2015 Jan 30

    Winter Faculty Academy

    (All day)

    Location: 

    HarvardX HQ - 125 Mt. Auburn Street (4th Floor)

    Video & Visual Teaching; Online Comprehension & Assessment; and Blended Learning

    • Offered on Friday, January 30th, 2015
    • Sponsored by the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
    • Supported by HarvardX and the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning is sponsoring a program called the Faculty Academy to enable full-time Harvard faculty to get hands-on assistance with some of the techniques and concepts used in online learning experiences (such as those created through HarvardX) and in blended...

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  • 2014 Sep 19

    HarvardX Open House

    3:30pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    HarvardX HQ - 125 Mt. Auburn Street (4th Floor)

    Members of the Harvard Community are invited to attend the HarvardX Open House.

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    WHAT...

    • Tour our space & studio.
    • Meet our team & neighbors (HILT, DCE, Bok).
    • Find out what makes us click.

    WHEN...

    • Thursday, September 4, 3:30-5:00

    &...

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