Hands-On Learning Through Objects
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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, is an art historian who focuses on 18th- and 19th-century European and contemporary post-1970s art.
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Object-Based Learning: A Powerful Pedagogy for Higher Education
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This chapter explores experiences of implementing Object-Based Learning (OBL) using university museum collections across a range of academic departments at University College London (UCL)
Defining learning objectives: Pre-semester, and all semester
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José A. (Tony) Gómez-Ibáñez, Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, who holds appointments at the GSD and HKS, defines the learning objectives of his course prior to the start of the semester and references them to frame each...
Object-Based Learning: A Powerful Pedagogy for Higher Education
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Hannan, Duhs, and Chatterjee (2013) explore how the incorporation of museums can offer object-based learning , which is student-centered, action-oriented, and inquiry-provoking - all of which can enhance student engagement in the classroom.
Research: The Educational Value of Course-level Learning Objectives/Outcomes
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A literature review summarizes research supporting the benefits of clearly articulated learning objectives, namely their role in helping students differentiate among types of knowledge and ensuring learners are practicing the intended skills.
Engaging the Senses: Object-based Learning in Higher Education
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A series of case studies provide firm evidence of the value of museum-higher education relationships and, in some cases, ways to create or sustain such relationships. Over time educational thinking and practice has ranged from behaviorist to postmodernist...
Museum collections: Using objects to teach the abstract
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Racha Kirakosian, Assistant Professor of German and of Religion, selected works of art for an installation at the Harvard Art Museums for students in her freshman seminar, Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Finding Justice and Truth in the Middle Ages.
Teaching with things: Curation, hybrid multimedia, and object-oriented pedagogy (HILT)
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Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) grant recipient Professor Jeffrey Schnapp expanded the metaLAB’s curatorial program to support object-based teaching in the humanities.
Reimagining STEM Learning Objectives in Response to Generative AI
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Vijay Janapa Reddi, Associate Professor (SEAS) and director of the Edge Computing Lab, is an applied machine learning computer architect.
Research: An Investigation of the Educational Power and Potential of the Harvard University Art Museums Study Centers
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A collaborative investigation into the nature of visitor learning at the Harvard Art Museums revealed that museum study centers provide active learning opportunities not only through interaction with the objects, but also through engagement with the...
Setting up effective feedback loops: The role of assessment in course transformation
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Logan McCarty, Director of Physical Sciences Education, and Louis Deslauriers, Director of Science Teaching and Learning, adopted an active pedagogy for a large introductory physics course and saw significant gains in student learning and attitudes...
Research: Focus on formative feedback
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A literature review contends that formative feedback—information communicated to the learner that is meant to modify their thinking or behavior in order to improve learning—should be objective, timely, and specific. Certain variations of formative...