Featured series 
Tag: HarvardX
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Health
Tackling high Rx prices
The HarvardX online platform is offering a free course on the FDA and prescription drug prices. Three faculty members behind the course discuss the issues.
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Campus & Community
Increasing digital accessibility
As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the accessibility of its digital systems and communications to persons with disabilities, Harvard University today announced the adoption of a new, University-wide Digital Accessibility Policy. This policy is intended to increase the accessibility of Harvard’s public-facing websites and web-based applications, as well as the digital content that…
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Campus & Community
Business School’s Anand named vice provost for advances in learning
Harvard Business School’s Bharat Anand will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol as vice provost for advances in learning.
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Campus & Community
Bol to step down as vice provost
Peter K. Bol will step down at the end of the summer as Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning to return to the faulty and to his teaching and research on China’s history.
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Work & Economy
Want to do well? Then do good
Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.
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Campus & Community
Mouthwatering science
An Ed Portal cooking workshop explored the science behind aioli and ice cream.
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Campus & Community
Emerging challenges in digital higher ed
The team at Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Research hosted digital-learning practitioners from around the nation to discuss common challenges in their work.
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Campus & Community
Harvard boosts on-campus reuse of online course content
HarvardX boosts on-campus reuse of online course content.
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Campus & Community
Getting the word out on learning from experience — and failure
Professor Ronald Heifetz uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis — in which students develop and collaboratively analyze cases drawn from their own work experiences of failure — to promote deeper engagement and stronger retention of leadership concepts.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry unbound
Harvard Professor Elisa New’s Gen Ed course, “Poetry in America,” attracts students from across disciplines.
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Science & Tech
Adaptive learning featured in HarvardX course
A course featuring adaptive learning explores the technological feasibility, implications, and design of such a system to improve massive open online courses.
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Campus & Community
Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana
A Harvard professor asked an Ed Portal audience to vote on Question 4, which would legalize and create a commission to regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, after they reviewed three very different viewpoints on the topic.
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Campus & Community
Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes
Law Professor Glenn Cohen led an interactive one-night class at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston that focused on the complicated questions surrounding the legal, medical, and ethical aspects of bioethics.
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Health
How our bodies harness energy
Robert A. Lue, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, offered his audience insight into his upcoming HarvardX course “Cell Biology: Mitochondria,” during a talk on April 21.
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Nation & World
Building a discussion around the Memorial Church
Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, used Harvard’s Memorial Church as a focal point in kicking off her discussion on religion. Moore spoke as part of the Harvard Ed Portal’s faculty series.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares the simplicity behind daily changes
At an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Donald Goldmann challenged his audience to be curious about how they do everyday tasks, helping them explore “improvement science.”
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Nation & World
A religion course for the Internet age
A HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried drew from his HarvardX course, “Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract,” at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of its
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Nation & World
‘The story of us’
By animating our minds, a sprawling HarvardX MOOC seeks to democratize science.
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Nation & World
An academic reality show
Online course ‘PredictionX’ brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future.
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Nation & World
On MOOCs and more
Provost Alan Garber issues a white paper on digital and residential education at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
A miracle of preservation
HarvardX’s MOOC “The Book” uses technology to mine ancient texts and bridge the modern and the medieval.
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Nation & World
Learning about learning: Creating a connection
A newly integrated HarvardX and HILT research effort will probe residential and online learning, and the places in between.
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Nation & World
MOOCs on the move
As MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital via HarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.
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Nation & World
The maturing of MOOCs
In a question-and-answer session, the researchers behind the edX platform reflect on the risks, rewards, and changes in online learning.
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Campus & Community
EdX marks the spot
Harvard’s online courses evolve, as hybrid models effectively continue to mix remote learning with on-campus interaction.
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Campus & Community
Scholarship of things
Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.
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Arts & Culture
Walt Whitman’s war
A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.
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Nation & World
A new office, a global audience
In a question-and-answer session, HarvardX head Peter Bol outlines the challenges ahead for the online platform and for teaching and learning.
