Fostering Motivation

This course designed a set of interactive, hands-on, in-class activities designed to allow students to explore concepts before they were rigorously presented in lecture. Goal : The objective for the near-weekly in-class activities is to get students...

This activity exposes first-time graduate researchers to all stages of the research process through sourcing leads from fellow classmates. Goal: To create a collective research environment –otherwise known as "crowd researching". Background: This activity...

One way to get students engaged in learning is by getting them to self-test and generate their own questions. Goal : To enhance learning that occurs in passive lectures by engaging students in question-generation. Background : The instructor created a...

This course uses the Harvard case method to work on student's change challenges. Goal: For students to articulate change, and apply learning concepts to their “change projects”. Background: The entire course is designed around an iterative process of...

This activity equips students with communication skills necessary for impromptu public speaking. Goal : To enable students to gain practice applying public speaking skills To provide students with an opportunity to reflect on how to communicate...

This activity in introductory game development is intended to offer concrete initial tools for solving some of the course problems, and provide comfortably small groups in which all student voices might be shared. Activity : Game Design Activity Goal : To...

In "The Blank Syllabus" activity, the instructor leaves assigned readings blank for some of the class sessions. The second writing assignment requires students to choose a reading from the course anthology--a reading that is then assigned to the class...

This in-class activity is designed to challenge students to work through problem sets during the entire class period. Using a topic in class, the instructor formulates an activity sheet based on the topic. Activity: Applied Math Activity Goal/s: To enable...

In this activity, students become members of an achaelogical expedition to Harvard Yard 2000 years in the future. Activity: Archaeology Expedition Goal/s: To get students to think critically about architecture and the built environment around them To...

Through this activity, students were challenged to think critically about the rhetoric which drove the events of the Peloponnesian war. Activity: Micropolitan Dialogue Goal/s: The goal of the Micropolitan Dialogue was to have students think critically...