#  Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning 

 



##  Welcome to VPAL 

The Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning creates and catalyzes deeply engaging and scalable learning experiences that make a difference at Harvard and beyond.

[**Learn more about VPAL**](/what-we-do "What We Do")



 

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***"Health Care Economics is an amazing course. The professor did a fantastic job dissecting the complexities of health care into chewable chunks that made it easier to understand the complexities."***

Howard H. Dinh, MD, FACC  
Health Care Economics Learner, Sacramento, CA



 

 

 

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  [### Save the Date: 2026 HILT Conference

 ](https://hilt.harvard.edu/annual-conference)The **2026 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Conference** will be held at the David Rubenstein Treehouse in Allston, MA, on **Friday, September 25, 2026**. **Registration for the conference will open in late August.** Check back on the [HILT website](https://hilt.harvard.edu/annual-conference) for updates. Questions? Email <hilt@harvard.edu>.



 

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  [### Annual Report 2025

 ](/annual-report)[Annual Report 2025](/annual-report "Check out our Annual Report")

We invite you to explore the 2025 Annual Report of the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.

[Read the Annual Report](/annual-report)



 

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  [### Featured Course

 ](https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/data-science-principles)[Data Science Principles](https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/data-science-principles)

Data Science Principles is a Harvard Online course that gives you an overview of data science with a code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics.

[Learn More about Data Science Principles](https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/data-science-principles)



 

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