#  HILT Conference 2018: Implementing the Science of Learning to Advance the Art of Teaching 

 



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 **September 21 - September 21, 2019** 

 09:00AM - 02:30PM EDT 

 



 

**Date**: Friday, September 21, 2018  
**Location**: Wasserstein Hall, Harvard University

###### Program

###### 8:30am Breakfast and registration

###### 9:00am Welcome remarks from Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Harvard University

###### 9:30am Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (SPH); Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) frames the day

###### 10:00am Keynote: The Intentional University

###### A conversation exploring educational practices at Harvard with a former Harvard faculty member who used an outcomes-based, science of learning approach to start a new university, and a former Senator and Governor who has advocated strongly for broad reform in higher education. Moderated by Claudine Gay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

###### 11:00am Unpacking the Plenary ([Breakout Sessions](http://hilt.harvard.edu/conference2018/breakout-sessions/#break1))

- ###### A Conversation with Senator Kerrey
- ###### A Conversation with Stephen Kosslyn
- ###### Harvard Faculty Views
- ###### Harvard Students’ Views

###### 12:00pm Implementation Workshops ([Breakout Sessions](http://hilt.harvard.edu/conference2018/breakout-sessions/#break2))

- ###### Advancing and Promoting Quality Teaching
- ###### Harvard-developed Tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning
- ###### Improving Teaching by Studying Student Learning
- ###### Simple Ways to Use the Science of Learning

###### 1:15pm Lunch Plenary featuring a conversation with Provost Alan Garber and incoming Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand

###### 2:30pm Closing



 

 



 

 

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