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Academics in Action! : A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service

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Offering examples of community-engaged theory, scholarship, teaching, and action, Academics in Action! describes the nuanced structures that foster and support their development within a research university.

Designing solutions in response to real-world problems

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Martin Bechthold, the Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard School of Design, and Mary Tolikas, Chief Innovation Officer at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Visiting Lecturer on Engineering Sciences at the Harvard John A...

Using Museum Exhibits: An Innovation in Experiential Learning

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Read about how to use museum learning to enhance learning in the college classroom.

University–School–Community Partnership as Vehicle for Leadership, Service, and Change: A Critical Brokerage Perspective

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Read more about how universities can engage in critical brokerage, building on the existing community partner’s work and serving “not just as a broker for new individual life potentialities, but for a more just and equitable society.”

Creating Experiential Learning In The Graduate Classroom Through Community Engagement

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Check out Johnson’s (2013) article on how to incorporate experiential learning in the classroom through client service in the community.

Piloting an experimental and experiential course

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Senior Lecturers Archie Jones, Henry McGee, and Jeffrey Bussgang teamed up to design a new Harvard Business School (HBS) course, Scaling Minority Businesses, in which students learn about the unique challenges of Black-owned businesses. Students are...

Reflection as a core student learning activity in higher education - Insights from nearly two decades of academic development

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Veine et al.’s recent article explores more about the importance of reflection in experiential learning within higher education.

Empowering students to make key decisions

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Dr. Phuong Pham, Assistant Professor and Director of Humanitarian Studies, teaches the required course for HSPH Humanitarian Studies Concentrators, Field Methods in Humanitarian Crises, and oversees a set of ongoing online modules titled, “Build a Better...

Culture and vision in virtual reality narratives

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Research by Mills, Courtney, Dede, Dressen & Gant (2020) suggests that this deep immersion allows students to envision and experience diverse facets of culture, and more vividly imagine their future role as participants in those communities, in ways that...

Comparing immersive Virtual Reality to mobile applications in foreign language learning in higher education: a quasi-experiment

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This quasi-experimental study provided evidence that a head-mounted Virtual Reality display device-supported learning more effectively than mobile applications.