Learning Lab News

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 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...

For over a decade, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning has mentored the PhD students chosen to participate in the Harvard Griffin GSAS Harvard Horizons program. These remarkable scholars take on the challenge of turning their dissertation...

We are pleased to share that we contributed a chapter to a new book, In their own words: What scholars and teachers want you to know about why and how to apply the science of learning in your academic setting. This ebook, which is published online by the...

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...

As a way of augmenting students' learning in History courses, Media & Design Fellow Claire Adams (PhD candidate in History) developed a series of workshops at the Learning Lab to introduce students to the fundamentals of visual communication and...

In MCB80, The Neurobiology of Behavior, many Harvard undergraduates encounter scientific papers for the first time. As a way to augment students’ understanding of influential research papers in neuroscience, Media & Design Fellow Xiaomeng Han (PhD...

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...

Over the years, the Bok Center has worked with academics at various stages of their careers who are trying to summarize large scale research projects in short compressed bits of time, particularly through our support of Harvard Horizons and the Star...