The Bok Center’s Learning Lab was featured in a recent Harvard Gazette article highlighting “Social Engagement Through Music: Histories, Economies, Communities,” a new course launched this spring by the Department of Music.... Read more about Learning Lab Collaborates on "Social Engagement Through Music"

On May 9, the Bok Center hosted our 3rd annual Showcase, celebrating innovative teaching from the past academic year. Visitors from across the Harvard community and beyond explored over 20 booths highlighting many of the diverse courses and programs created by Bok Center staff, student fellows, and faculty partners.... Read more about Bok Showcase 2019: Innovative Teaching in the Spotlight

The ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize celebrates Harvard University instructors for their development and use of active learning exercises in their classes, and we would love to post a teaching activity you used in class to the website.... Read more about ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

Eight scholars have been appointed as 2019 Harvard Horizons Scholars, studying topics from glass sea sponges to musical Esperanto. Harvard Horizons is designed to promote interdisciplinary sharing of PhD students’ big ideas and to teach students how to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience. Over the next several months these eight graduate students will work closely with the Bok Center as part of our support for Professional and Scholarly Communication. Congratulations to the Horizons Scholars!

The Bok Center was delighted to join in the celebration at the inauguration events for Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence S. Bacow, on Friday, October 5. We enjoyed speaking about our work at the Bok Center with visitors from across the campus and around the world.... Read more about Welcome, President Bacow!

The Bok Center is proud to be a partner on the second iteration of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA).  Staff and fellows from across the Bok Center collaborated with our colleagues at the Harvard Art Museums in the areas of curriculum, assignment, and activity design as well as the pop-up studio pictured in the article.... Read more about Bok Partners with Harvard Art Museums on Summer Institute

On May 2, the Bok Center hosted our second annual Spring Showcase, featuring the amazing ways in which our faculty and student partners are transforming teaching at Harvard.  The Bok Center has created a vibrant intergenerational community of teachers and learners, who have worked tirelessly throughout the year to create inspiring and innovative courses and programs.... Read more about Spring Showcase a Smashing Success

The first assignment, for the General Education course on “Primitive Navigation,” was for students to start at the John Harvard statue in the Yard, walk due west for what seemed 20 minutes with no tools or aids including a watch or phone, and see where they ended up.  Probably students had an inkling this wasn’t going to end well.  They would end up all over the greater Harvard Square area, knowing they were “lost.”  So what?

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The ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize celebrates Harvard University instructors for their development and use of active learning exercises in their classes, and we would love to post a teaching activity you used in class to the website.... Read more about ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

The Bok Center's Learning Lab and other Science Center staff have moved to 50 Church Street, 3rd floor. Come visit us here!... Read more about We moved!