Behavioral science interventions in online education
VPAL personnel collaborated to conduct one of the largest global field experiments in higher education to examine the scalability of several behavioral science interventions for online students.
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VPAL and HLS collaboration, “Zero-L," to be free to all law schools
Amid COVID-19, Harvard Law and VPAL have made their online, pre-orientation resource temporarily available to aid student success.
Rebooting Online Education
The Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) works to develop a new generation of online learning experiences, created and taught by colleagues from across the faculties, and drawing upon learnings from previous online courses.
Extracurriculars for an Online Campus
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...
Mechanical Ventilation for COVID-19
HarvardX and edX have announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients. The class was developed by Susan Wilcox, the division chief of...
To Complete a MOOC, Slow Down
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. In this article, they find that users who tend to take longer on submits are more likely to...
An App to Boost Classroom Inclusion
Teachly, created by Harvard Kennedy School faculty Teddy Svoronos and Dan Levy, and supported by a HILT Spark Grant, helps faculty track, code, and draw upon students' participation. Read more ...
Everyone’s a Teacher, Everyone’s a Learner
Integrating peer learning into pedagogy: the subject drew nearly 400 people to the eighth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference on September 27, 2019. Read more .
Link across Campus
The new Harvard Link, an online app developed by the research arm of VPAL, creates a personalized dashboard for you. It recommends news stories, events, suggestions of potential Harvard collaborators – all automatically tailored to your interests. Read...
Operation Impact Launched: Students Power Learning Innovations
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) at the Office of the VPAL is announcing the launch of Operation Impact, a university-wide initiative to support student innovation in education. Operation Impact and VPAL will provide funding...
Bol to step down as vice provost
Peter K. Bol, the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, will step down at the end of the summer as vice provost for advances in learning to return to the faculty and to his teaching and research on China’s history. Read...
New HILT Website Launch
Now it’s even easier to find funding, explore University-wide tools, and connect to teaching and learning communities. The new hilt.harvard.edu website features a powerful search engine to find content from throughout Harvard.