HarvardX

four people talking outside the Harvard Ed Portal building

Tackling high Rx prices

Faculty behind Ed Portal’s FDA course give panel discussion

Health|

DateMay 17, 2019

Computer keyboard symbolizing digital access

Increasing digital accessibility

University policy to ‘make information and resources more easily available to those who need it’

Campus|

DateApril 30, 2019May 1, 2019

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.

Business School’s Anand named vice provost for advances in learning

HBX faculty chair will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol

News|

DateJuly 31, 2018August 7, 2018

An illustration of a community with houses, business and parks.

Free online course helps businesses improve public health

News +|

DateMay 10, 2018May 10, 2018

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 faculty and to his teaching and research on China's history.

Bol to step down as vice provost

Leader on advances in learning will return to teaching, China research

Campus|

DateJanuary 5, 2018January 8, 2018

“Entrepreneurship is a tool for providing something beneficial to society," Steven Rogers, M.B.A. '85, told his Ed Portal audience.

Want to do well? Then do good

HBS lecturer says entrepreneurial success should benefit society

Business|

DateSeptember 26, 2017July 26, 2019

Stefano Mafioli (from left) and Samuel Robert, both of Somerville, and Hausing Fan of Brookline experiment at the 'Science & Cooking' workshop.

Mouthwatering science

Grad students turn Ed Portal into a lab to shed light on ingredients in action

Campus|

DateJune 21, 2017September 12, 2019

With the increased movement in the digital learning space, “there is a need to bring people together to talk about genuine challenges in our collective work,” said Dustin Tingley, VPAL Research faculty director and professor of government, at Harvard’s “Emerging Challenges in Digital Higher Education” conference. Conference organizer Daniel Seaton (right) said the conference focus was around “infrequently discussed issues.”

Emerging challenges in digital higher ed

Conference examines challenges, best practices as online education matures

Campus|

DateMay 24, 2017June 7, 2017

HarvardX courses will be more accessible through HarvardDART, which is being demonstrated by Shilpa Idnani (from left), HarvardX instructional development assistant; Selen Turkay, VPAL-Research Fellow; and Vittorio Bucchieri, HUIT senior user experience lead.

Harvard boosts on-campus reuse of online course content

Large catalog can be shared across University’s Schools and disciplines

Campus|

DateApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership Ronald Heifetz believes that students can learn more from their own experiences, and that experiential teaching methods in general provide deeper educational benefits than “prepared cases at a distance from students’ experience.”

Getting the word out on learning from experience — and failure

Teaching method encourages students to share what didn’t work, and to figure out how to do it differently and better

Campus|

DateApril 5, 2017March 12, 2019

Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, is teaching a new Extension School course aimed at better equipping secondary school teachers to teach poetry using footage of national personalities such as Nas, Bill Clinton, Elena Kagan, and Bono reading a favorite poem.

Poetry unbound

Professor enlists Nas, Gehry, and others to increase teachers’ reach

Arts|

DateFebruary 14, 2017October 3, 2017

The HarvardX course “Super-Earths and Life” is featuring adaptive learning functionality and helping explore how the technology can improve online learning outcomes.

Adaptive learning featured in HarvardX course

Prototype explores technological feasibility, implications, and design of such systems for massive open online courses

Science|

DateFebruary 2, 2017February 2, 2017

A recent report from Harvard and MIT on the use of MOOCs details encouraging statistics on who is taking advantage of the online courses made available by the two Universities over the past four years.

Grading the MOOCs

New study examines who’s learning, and how

Campus|

DateJanuary 12, 2017January 12, 2017

Harvard Professor Charles Nesson’s Question 4 discussion Tuesday evening at the Ed Portal tapped into his HarvardX course “JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change.”

Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana

Pros and cons of controversial Question 4 examined

Campus|

DateNovember 4, 2016February 28, 2019

Harvard Law School Professor Glenn Cohen spoke at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of the Faculty Speaker Series.

Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes

Harvard expert breaks down complex topic for Ed Portal and online audience

Campus|

DateSeptember 20, 2016March 12, 2019

Each human being is made up of 5 trillion to 10 trillion cells, and each cell is “a small universe” with its own tremendous complexity, Harvard Professor Robert A. Lue told his audience at the Ed Portal, drawing from his upcoming HarvardX course “Cell Biology: Mitochondria.”

How our bodies harness energy

It's the cells that have to prioritize their workload

Health|

DateApril 29, 2016March 12, 2019

"Religious literacy is developing the ability to discern and analyze the fundamental intersections of religion and social, political, and cultural life," said Harvard Divinity School's Diane Moore, speaking at the Harvard Ed Portal.

Building a discussion around the Memorial Church

Divinity School’s Moore explores how deeply embedded religion is in culture and history

World|

DateApril 4, 2016March 7, 2019

The science of improvement largely focuses on health care improvement, however, Professor Donald Goldmann challenged his Ed Portal audience to be curious about how they execute everyday tasks — and ultimately better their daily lives.

Professor shares the simplicity behind daily changes

Starts with bringing science of improvement into your life

Campus|

DateMarch 9, 2016July 26, 2019

Diane Moore, a senior lecturer on religious studies and education, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, and director of the Religious Literacy Project, has long been an advocate of “religious literacy,” meaning an understanding of how religion works in its cultural and political contexts.

A religion course for the Internet age

HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture

World|

DateFebruary 12, 2016

“When you get into a taxi, that’s a contract,” said Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried, who later answered questions during a talk at the Harvard Ed Portal.

Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts

Reflects on how the world works

Campus|

DateFebruary 3, 2016March 12, 2019

Artistic collaborations like those with papercut artist Andrew Benincasa punctuated lessons in part three of "Fundamentals of Neuroscience."

‘The story of us’

By animating our minds, brainy HarvardX MOOC aims to democratize science

World|

DateJanuary 2, 2016December 20, 2017

Professor Sara Schechner shows students compasses, sextants, and a variety of other instruments that sailors used to measure and predict their location at sea.

An academic reality show

'PredictionX' brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future

World|

DateNovember 13, 2015March 25, 2019

“[MOOCs] have become so much a part of how we think about teaching and learning that it is difficult to envision this University — or any other, for that matter — without them,” noted Provost Alan M. Garber in a recently released white paper.

On MOOCs and more

Provost Garber issues white paper on digital and residential education at Harvard

World|

DateNovember 5, 2015

Students taking "The Book," a modular MOOC developed through HarvardX, will get unprecedented digital access to Harvard’s archives of printed material. Among the holdings is a 39-inch scroll from the 15th century (photo 1). The course was conceived by Professor Jeffrey Hamburger (photo 2). Professor Ann Blair (right, photo 3) and Meredith Quinn are filmed during a segment on Islamic manuscripts.

A miracle of preservation

HarvardX’s MOOC 'The Book' bridges modern and medieval

Arts|

DateOctober 6, 2015May 17, 2019

Dustin Tingley, the recently appointed faculty director of the VPAL Research Group, sees the "indication of success as the number of times we can say we are partnering with or empowering another group," such as the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (above).

Learning about learning: Creating a connection

Integrated HarvardX and HILT research effort will probe residential and online learning, and the places in between

World|

DateSeptember 17, 2015May 31, 2019

For a MOOC on global health equity, a small HarvardX production crew traveled to Rwanda (pictured) and Haiti to bring back personal stories from experts who are often not given a voice: the people directly affected by healthcare policies.

MOOCs on the move

HarvardX not only serves many students overseas, it’s creating content there too

World|

DateSeptember 17, 2015April 16, 2019

"The MOOC classroom is like no physical classroom on Earth. It has lowered boundaries for learning in space and time. As a result, we don’t just have many learners, but incredible diversity and asynchronicity," said Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the HarvardX research committee, and Isaac Chuang, MIT professor of physics, professor of electrical engineering, and senior associate dean of digital learning.

The maturing of MOOCs

Researchers behind edX platform reflect on risks, rewards, and changes in online learning

World|

DateAugust 28, 2015

Rather than substituting online learning for in-person learning as some courses do, HarvardX Faculty Director Robert Lue said a new hybrid model combining online and in-person learning far from Harvard’s campus seeks instead to combine the strengths of each method.

EdX marks the spot

Harvard’s online courses evolve, as hybrid models mix remote learning with campus interaction

DateMay 27, 2015

The “Tangible Things” undergraduate and HarvardX course is the brainchild of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, who said the main idea behind the course is that “any object can become an entry point into historical investigation. The shoes on your feet, the chair you’re sitting on, light fixtures in the room — common things have stories."

Scholarship of things

Ulrich makes case for the narrative of objects

Campus|

DateMay 8, 2015June 5, 2018

Harvard’s Lawrence Buell (center) called “Drum-Taps” Whitman’s “first attempt to cut lose from ‘Leaves of Grass’ and do something else.” The Humanities Center panel also featured Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Elisa New (left) and Fordham University English Professor Lawrence Kramer (right).

Walt Whitman’s war

‘Drum-Taps,’ the weighty core of his classic ‘Leaves of Grass,’ turns 150

Arts|

DateMay 6, 2015June 19, 2019

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Faculty behind Ed Portal’s FDA course give panel discussion

University policy to ‘make information and resources more easily available to those who need it’

HBX faculty chair will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol

Leader on advances in learning will return to teaching, China research

HBS lecturer says entrepreneurial success should benefit society

Grad students turn Ed Portal into a lab to shed light on ingredients in action

Conference examines challenges, best practices as online education matures

Large catalog can be shared across University’s Schools and disciplines

Teaching method encourages students to share what didn’t work, and to figure out how to do it differently and better

Professor enlists Nas, Gehry, and others to increase teachers’ reach

Prototype explores technological feasibility, implications, and design of such systems for massive open online courses

New study examines who’s learning, and how

Pros and cons of controversial Question 4 examined

Harvard expert breaks down complex topic for Ed Portal and online audience

It's the cells that have to prioritize their workload

Divinity School’s Moore explores how deeply embedded religion is in culture and history

Starts with bringing science of improvement into your life

HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture

Reflects on how the world works

By animating our minds, brainy HarvardX MOOC aims to democratize science

'PredictionX' brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future

Provost Garber issues white paper on digital and residential education at Harvard

HarvardX’s MOOC 'The Book' bridges modern and medieval

Integrated HarvardX and HILT research effort will probe residential and online learning, and the places in between

HarvardX not only serves many students overseas, it’s creating content there too

Researchers behind edX platform reflect on risks, rewards, and changes in online learning

Harvard’s online courses evolve, as hybrid models mix remote learning with campus interaction

Ulrich makes case for the narrative of objects

‘Drum-Taps,’ the weighty core of his classic ‘Leaves of Grass,’ turns 150

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