#  HILT Spark Grant Fall 2014 awards announced 

 





October 10, 2014

 

 

 HILT awarded six [Spark Grants](https://hilt.harvard.edu/funding-opportunities/spark/) of $5-$15K to projects intended to “spark” promising teaching and learning projects this year:

 [A crash course in Harvard College undergraduates](http://hilt.harvard.edu/crashcourse). Michael Zachau Walker and Sophia Watkins (College) will design a workshop equipping teaching fellows with increased understanding of teaching Harvard undergraduates in order to foster meaningful and productive relationships.

 [Evaluating the impact of multimedia enhancements of case materials](http://hilt.harvard.edu/multimediacase). Maria Flanagan, Carolyn Wood, Dan Levy, Christopher Robichaud, Mae Klinger and Laura Winig (HKS) will conduct a comparison study to identify the impact of multimedia enhancements of case materials on student preparation and engagement.

 [An introduction to numerical computing for undergraduates](http://hilt.harvard.edu/numericalcomputing). Adam Cohen and Christopher Stubbs (FAS) will develop a two-week module on basic computational methods in MATLAB, lowering the barrier to use for students in courses from biology to economics.

 [New models for evaluating learning outcomes in digital humanities teaching](http://hilt.harvard.edu/digitalhumanities). Jeffrey Schnapp, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Kyle Parry (FAS-metaLAB) will host a workshop around opportunities and challenges in digital humanities teaching, applying lessons learned to the assessment of metaLAB platforms.

 [Online resource for speaking and communication](http://hilt.harvard.edu/speechcommunication). Sarah Jessop and Marlon Kuzmick (FAS-Bok Center) will film a series of interviews (inspired by “Harvard Writes”) to convene a campus-wide conversation on the role of spoken communication in teaching, scholarship, and collaboration.

 [A tool to facilitate peer review and assessment](http://hilt.harvard.edu/capture50). Dan Coffey and David J. Malan (SEAS) will provide a low-cost tool that automatically captures video of instructors, facilitating more robust peer review and frequent opportunity for pedagogical assessment.



 

 

 



 

 

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