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Elizabeth Resnick

Digital Collections - Harvard College Library - 2 views

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    "To enhance access to its rich and varied collections, the Harvard College Library has digitized thousands of historical photographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, music scores, rare maps and other rare and unique materials. The vast majority of these images are freely available online for public access"
Roland Gesthuizen

Harvard Referencing Generator | Essay Tool Box - 105 views

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    Harvard Referencing Generator for books, chapters, journals, websites and even emails.
Kim Ibara

New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures - 9 views

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    Eric Mazur's (Harvard physics professor) new software to support his teaching methodology (the "flipped" classroom). Learning Catalytics. Intriguing!
Tracy Watanabe

Harvard ALPS - 73 views

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    Harvard education online classes, professional development, and resources ALPS = Active Learning Practice for Schools
Adrienne Schroeder

Project Zero: Current Projects - 49 views

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    Harvard team of educational thinkers and innovators whose principal inventories include researching beliefs, attitudes, policy, and how to make change
Megan N-B

Healthy Eating Plate & Healthy Eating Pyramid | The Nutrition Source | Harvard T.H. Cha... - 9 views

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    How does this compare to "My Plate"?
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    How does this compare to "My Plate"?
Andrea Raven

edX - 42 views

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    Free online college courses  offered from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, etc
Javier E

Getting Into the Ivies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard — or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges — than it was when today’s 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American students at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994.
  • The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course. In 2012, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easier, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable.
  • For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admissions have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
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  • Over the last 20 years, several large colleges, like N.Y.U. and the University of Southern California, have improved markedly, effectively increasing the number of seats on elite campuses
  • On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.
  • Low-income applicants are left to compete for the remaining slots with applicants who have the highest test scores, most impressive extracurricular activities and most eloquent essays.
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    After reading this i felt I could assuage the parents group at my daughter's school who were heartbroken that their siblings were not accepted into the school as well.
Stephen Davis

Robert Duke: Why students don't learn what we think we teach - 87 views

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    Video of a Harvard lecture...interesting stuff!
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    Video of a Harvard lecture...interesting stuff!
Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. (aka Dr. G)

Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You? - 1 views

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    Free online business articles and news at Harvard Business Review. Read a preview of Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?, by Gary P. Pisano, Roberto Verganti.
Kevin Jarrett

Report Calls for National Effort to Get Millions Of Young Americans onto a Realistic Pa... - 29 views

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    Harvard GSE research. College isn't for everyone.
anonymous

Anant Agarwal Discusses Free Online Courses Offered by a Harvard/M.I.T. Partnership. - ... - 4 views

  • Granted, there are no papers to grade, and assignments aren’t free-form, but how does one professor handle so many students? We had four teaching assistants, and my initial plan was that they would spend a lot of time on the discussion forum, answering questions. One night in the early days, I was on the forum at 2 a.m. when I saw a student ask a question, and I was typing my answer when I discovered that another student had typed an answer before I could. It was in the right direction, but not quite there, so I thought I could modify it, but then some other student jumped in with the right answer. It was fascinating to see how quickly students were helping each other. All we had to do was go in and say that it was a good answer. I actually instructed the T.A.’s not to answer so quickly, to let students work for an hour or two, and by and large they find the answers.
  • Most students who register for MOOCs don’t complete the course. Of the 154,763 who registered for “Circuits and Electronics,” fewer than half even got as far as looking at the first problem set, and only 7,157 passed the course. What do you make of that?
  • EdX operates under an honor code, with no way to verify that the student who registered is the one doing the work. Is that likely to change? It’s quite possible employers would be happy with an honor certificate. We’re looking at various methods of proctoring. We have talked about people going to centers to take exams. There are also companies that use the cameras inside a laptop or iPad to watch you and everything else that’s happening in the room while you take an exam, and that may be more scalable.
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  • And because we will have all this data on how students actually use our materials, there are opportunities for research on learning. We can watch how many attempts students made before they got an exercise right, and if they got it wrong, what they used to try to find a solution. Did they go to the textbook, go back and watch the video, go to the forum and post a question?
Marc Patton

edX - Home - 0 views

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    An organization established by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses.
Roland Gesthuizen

Study: Class size doesn't matter - The Washington Post - 9 views

  • traditionally collected input measures — class size, per pupil expenditure, the fraction of teachers with no certification, and the fraction of teachers with an advanced degree — are not correlated with school effectiveness.
  • frequent teacher feedback, the use of data to guide instruction, high-dosage tutoring, increased instructional time, and high expectations — explains approximately 50 percent of the variation in school effectiveness
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    Two Harvard researchers looked at the factors that actually improve student achievement and those that don't.
Brianna Crowley

Deserted by parents, she went from homeless to Harvard - TODAY News - TODAY.com - 37 views

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    Inspirational story for teachers and students alike! I might show this during opening week of school. 
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