Project Spotlight

By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist, Academic Technology for FAS In Fall 2016, two HUIT groups – Academic Technology for FAS and the division of IT Support Services responsible for managing Harvard’s computer classrooms – collaborated to...

On August 29 and 30, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural Digital Teaching Seminar, a two-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that are becoming more commonly used in...

Beginning this fall, Academic Technology for FAS will be offering Canvas training that goes beyond the basics of setting up and administering a course website. Designed as interactive workshops, these topical training sessions will cover more specialized...

The FAS Academic Technology Group's Brandon Bentley (senior instructional technologist) and Mike Hilborn (associate director, academic technology development) participated in a session at the 2016 IT Summit on Canvas use and adoption across Harvard...

By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist for FAS ATG One of the benefits resulting from the adoption of the Canvas Learning Management System has been the integration with third-party tools. An example of this is the Turning Technologies...

Are you interested in helping the FAS Academic Technology Group test out new tools for teaching and learning? Contact us to learn more about our expanded Spring pilots of VoiceThread, AnnotationsX, and Flashcards, each of which can be seamlessly...

In Applied Physics 50b, the Rubrics feature in Canvas was instrumental in allowing students to get feedback on their project reports and to submit an improved version based on this feedback. Applied Physics 50b, which is a new project-based introductory...

Increasing numbers of FAS courses are designed to build toward a final or capstone project. These projects are usually shared with classmates and a Harvard audience through fairs, screenings, exhibits, or other types of public events at the end of the...

For his Gen Ed course Science of the Physical Universe 29 The Climate Energy Challenge, Prof. Dan Schrag is trying a “semi flipped” format this fall. For the first half of the semester, prior to attending class each week, students are expected to watch...

In his popular courses on Justice and Bioethics, Professor Sandel fostered in-class debate by inviting students to express their opinions about the controversial topics of the course on a blog and to share their arguments and counter-arguments with each...