"This year’s event—again conducted virtually via Zoom—encouraged Harvard educators to reflect on their experience teaching remotely during a pandemic that “exacerbated issues” like social and healthcare inequality “that have existed in society for many, many years,” said panelist and senior lecturer in molecular and cellular biology Alain Viel." Read more. Read more about "To Repair This Imperfect World" - Harvard Magazine covers 2021 HILT Conference
The University convened the Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning to systematically explore how the University can build on the creativity, experiments, and inventions that its faculty applied to remote teaching during the pandemic, and the novel ways they found, during a challenging time, to connect to both its residential and global communities. Later this summer... Read more about The future of teaching and learning
"This year’s conference, which drew roughly 400 participants, focused on building inclusive classrooms and equitable instruction. Although the topic was set nearly a year ago, it felt particularly relevant during a semester when the challenges of remote learning have concentrated professors’ and administrators’ attention on how to make sure students who are stretched across multiple time zones or who may lack internet access or other resources don’t get left out of the virtual classroom."... Read more about “I Want to Hear About You” - Harvard Magazine covers 2020 HILT Conference
Socialize Remotely, a new initiative launched by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) and Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT), aims to bring together the Harvard community in a variety of online social gatherings.... Read more about Extracurriculars for an Online Campus
VPAL researchers have studied response times in self-paced, online courses: the time the learner takes to read the question and select an answer to submit.... Read more about To Complete a MOOC, Slow Down
