Bok News

As part of the 2026 HILT Conference , “The Weight of the Degree: Rigor, Responsibility, and the Modern Campus,” the Bok Center successfully proposed and co-organized an interactive breakout session titled “Teaching and Mentoring New Teachers to Foster a...

This fall, the Bok Center welcomed a cohort of ten Teaching Development Fellows (TDFs). Fellows received an intensive orientation during late July and early August to prepare them to co-facilitate, alongside Bok Center staff, training sessions for over...

We were thrilled to welcome this year’s Bok Graduate Fellows cohort at our August orientation, where fellows got ready to support projects about multimodal assignments, classroom practice, AI, civil discourse, and grading. BGFs, who come from departments...

This Spring, the Learning Lab Undergraduate Fellows have launched their Spring AI Projects, working as part of a small cohort testing and refining AI-based course assignments developed in partnership with faculty. By experimenting with emerging AI...

The Bok Center collaborated with Moira Weigel from Comparative Literature on a zero-code workshop focused on prompt- and context-engineering techniques. Students learned to break down complex operations into discrete, chainable steps, working from human...

In a recent workshop with MOD-HEB BB students, the Bok Center supported the development of custom AI-powered learning tools. Rather than relying on generic language apps, students designed interactive flashcard interfaces and vocabulary drills populated...

The Bok Center recently brought together Sarah Craycraft from Folklore and Mythology and Lauren Kaminsky from History and Literature to develop practical resources for implementing oral assessments. Drawing on historical research into the traditional...

The Bok Center Learning Lab and Assistant Director Jordan Koffman were featured in a recent article in College News - "Progressing Education at the Bok Center." Tucked inside 50 Church Street on the outskirts of Harvard Square, faculty, graduate students...

Rebecca (Becca) Nesson , Dean of Academic Programs at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will become the new Executive Director of The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Nesson, who is currently dean of...

Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director Karen Thornber was recently interviewed about her vision for the Bok Center by the Harvard Gazette. As Karen Thornber envisions the next chapter for the Bok Center, connection, collaboration, and innovation are her...