Faculty/Course Development News

During the fall of 2023, teams from the Bok Center visited 18 departments and programs across Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to offer a 60-minute workshop on generative AI and its applications for teaching and learning. Tailored to the...

Did your EALC student submit his DAO letter by Fifth Monday? When you talked to ATG and ESS about AV support for your lecture in CGIS, did they ask for a 33-digit billing code? Can I print my paper at the SOCH on my way to the QRAC? Every university...

While some faculty come to the Bok Center for help in getting started on designing a new course or trying a new teaching technique, many of the 150+ faculty with whom we consult every year arrive already equipped with an ambitious plan informed by years...

This spring semester we will mark a year since the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery launched its landmark report, and while the university has already begun to take action on the report’s seven recommendations—to commemorate...

Carly Yingst, this year’s Media & Design Fellow in English, designed and facilitated an interactive, multi-station workshop for Professor Vidyan Ravinthiran’s course English 189VG: Video Game Storytelling. The Harvard Gazette featured the course...

Faculty and Teaching Fellows often are in an excellent position to identify students and colleagues who are struggling, and to refer them to the right person or department for help. And yet, at the same time, many instructors understandably report that...

Over the last two years, we’ve all had to make adjustments to our plans, whether as instructors, students, or support staff. One of the Learning Lab’s Media & Design Fellows, Ignacio Azcueta, recently demonstrated the importance of developing resources...

When OEB50: Genetics and Genomics wrapped in Fall 2019, Professors Robin Hopkins and Dan Hartl, who co-teach the course, decided to incorporate a creative project that would allow students to engage course material in new ways in the next iteration...

The Bok Center has been excited to collaborate with the Harvard Art Museums to bring ideas and strategies for teaching with museum collections to faculty and Teaching Fellows through a series of workshops and, for the first time this spring, a Bok Seminar...

"In 1977 humanity sent a mixtape into outer space. The two spacecraft of NASA’s Voyager mission include a Golden Record, featuring greetings in 55 earth languages, 116 images of the planet and its inhabitants, plus examples of music from a range of...