Whether instructors are interested in experimenting with literature-based learning in one course module or an entire curriculum, Sandra Sucher’s Teaching the Moral Leader is a practical guide, available through the Harvard Library and where books are sold.

Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, enables instructors to identify outcomes to track mastery in a course, and add outcome aligned rubrics to discussions...

The conference program highlighted a range of assessment examples across disciplines and provided the opportunity for faculty colleagues to work with one another to design personalized assessments for their own 2015-2016...

The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) compiled some examples of assessments, techniques, and pedagogies for attendees of the 2015 Faculty Conference: Designing an assessment for learning. 

Tools such as peer review discussions in Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, help instructors get to know students and cultivate accountability. 

Tools such as roll call in Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, help instructors get to know students and cultivate accountability. 

Tools such as profiles in Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, help instructors get to know students and cultivate accountability. 

MIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory distinguishes between explicit and implicit classroom contracts. 

Professor Chris Winship of the sociology department describes how reciprocity can also work against learning when instructors and students agree to mutual low expectation, defined as the “faculty-student low-low contract.” 

The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning provides insight into managing the distinctive classroom dynamics of student cohorts. 

HBS Professor Frances X. Frei argues via HBR blog post that leaders can simultaneously support people while holding them accountable.  

HBS’s Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning delivers quick faculty video tips on getting to know students.

Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, enables instructors to track students’ progress as measured by pedagogical goals or desired outcomes. 

The Derek Bok Center outlines the backward design of a course.

HILT grant recipient Beth Altringer (SEAS) discusses her team-driven course “The Innovator’s Practice” which involves students in a continuous creation and feedback cycle as they pursue the development of entrepreneurial ideas.