Elective Course

T561 explores how emerging digital tools and media can aid with crucial problems facing our global civilization. The world presents a new landscape deeply shaped by advanced technologies – communications, biotechnology, and computing – that place demands...

Educators are typically equipped with technology, media, and materials that are "one size fits all" and that have been designed primarily for a narrow and illusive group of "regular" students. This course will explore an alternative approach--universal...

Languages can connect learners to multilingual communities and cultures, both locally and globally, and technology has the potential to enhance our interactions with the globalized world. This course presents a comprehensive exploration of the role of...

This course explores specific principles from cognitive and learning science with important implications for instructional and curriculum design. It considers how research findings on topics such as transfer, analogy, metacognition, conceptual change...

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the experience of envisioning and creating media materials for learning. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to design, produce, test, and revise an individual small-scale project. In other words...

Lottery-Based Enrollment Formative evaluation is a systematic process of gathering, analyzing and interpreting data for the purpose of improving educational programs and products. This course is designed for teachers, producers, researchers, museum...

For learning designs and innovations to be effective, they should be based on and inspired by rigorous evidence about how and why people learn and behave. This process of translating evidence from the learning sciences into practices that can drive...

Classrooms comprised of students from different cultural backgrounds. Online learning spaces that connect students from around the world. In-person or online encounters with unfamiliar cultures or communities. In an age that feels increasingly...

This course is an action-oriented introduction to theory and practice toward socially just education that enables all young people to thrive in settings of uncertainty. As a learning community, we will: (1) Investigate the theoretical foundations of...

Museums are spaces for learners of all kinds to question, wonder, investigate, discuss, and build practical and analytical skills. Based in the diverse, world-class collections at the Harvard Art Museums, this practice-based course explores a variety of...