Learning Lab

The Bok Center’s Learning Lab is a studio space and intergenerational team that supports creative, innovative, and rigorous approaches to teaching, learning, and communicating academic ideas. 

We work with faculty across the College to design and prototype course activities and assignments that promote meaningful student engagement — not just in content mastery, but in how students express and refine their ideas, listen to others, and take part in productive, rigorous, intellectually vital dialogue.

Many of the projects we support encourage students to learn and present their ideas in new media: video essays, podcasts, infographics, oral presentations, and more. But students are not merely learning to create in these media; they are learning through filming, podcasting, coding, 3D modeling, and more. Through acts of making in these media forms, students build arguments, test perspectives, and contribute to public-facing conversations — all within a framework that values clarity, reasoned disagreement, and collaborative exploration.

The expertise our staff and fellows develop through this work with the most advanced tools and techniques for learning and communication has made us valuable to high-stakes initiatives and programs in the FAS: from the support we offer GSAS’s Harvard Horizons scholars and others on high profile public communication of academic research to our central role in responding to or opportunities and challenges presented by AI.