INTERACTIVITY

SpeakerBiosSeptember30,2016

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WELCOMINGREMARKS

Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th President of HarvardUniversity and the Lincoln Professor of History inHarvard’sFacultyofArtsandSciences.As president of Harvard, Faust has expanded financialaidtoimproveaccesstoHarvardCollegeforstudentsofalleconomicbackgroundsandadvocatedfor increasedfederal funding for scientific research. She hasbroadened the University’s international reach, raised

theprofileoftheartsoncampus,embracedsustainability,launchededX,theonline learning partnership with MIT, and promoted collaboration acrossacademic disciplines and administrative units as she guided the Universitythroughaperiodofsignificantfinancialchallenges.Sheistheauthorofsixbooks,includingThisRepublicofSuffering:DeathandtheAmericanCivilWar(2008),forwhichshewonthe2009BancroftPrize,theNew-York Historical Society’s 2009 American History Book Prize, andwhichwas recognized by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of2008.” It is the basis for a 2012 Emmy-nominated episode of the PBSAmerican Experience documentaries titled “Death and the Civil War,”directedbyRicBurns.

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PLENARYHOSTS

Peter Bol is Vice Provost for Advances in Learning(VPAL) and the Charles H. Carswell Professor of EastAsian Languages and Civilizations. As an historian ofChina he works on the sociocultural history of theliterati. As Vice Provost he is responsible for guidingsupport and services for faculty to advance learningand teaching environments (on-campus and online).

Through his office, Bol has budgetary oversight of HarvardX, the HarvardInitiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), and research collaborations toadvancethescienceoflearning.

Erin Driver-Linn is Associate Provost for InstitutionalResearch and Director of HILT. At HILT, Erin helpsfacilitate experimentation with innovative pedagogiesandworks to forge collaborative ties among teachingandlearningexpertswithinandbeyondtheUniversity.SheworkscloselywiththeViceProvostforAdvancesinLearningandothers intheOfficeofthePresidentand

Provost,aswellas leadershipacrossschool lines,tocatalyze innovationandexcellenceineducation.

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KEYNOTEPANEL

Whyinteractivity?Preparingtoday’sstudentsfor2040

Jack Goldstone is the Virginia E.and John T. Hazel, Jr.Professor of Public Policy at GeorgeMasonUniversity.HeistheauthorofRevolutionandRebellionintheEarlyModern World, awarded the 1993 DistinguishedScholarly ResearchAwardof theAmerican SociologicalAssociation;WhyEurope?TheRiseoftheWestinWorldHistory; and nine other books as well as over onehundred research articles on topics in politics, socialmovements, democratization, and long-term social

change.HehasappearedonNPR,CNN,Al-Jazeera,FoxNews,andwrittenforForeign Policy, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Al-Hayat and theInternationalHeraldTribune.

RebeccaWinthropisaSeniorFellowandDirectoroftheCenter for Universal Education at The BrookingsInstitution.SheistheformerheadofeducationfortheInternational Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aidNGO. Her research focuses on education in thedeveloping world, with special attention to the skillschildrenneed to succeed in life, and improvingqualitylearning for themostmarginalized childrenand youth,including girls and children affected by extreme

violence.Dr.Winthropworkstopromoteequitablelearningissuesforyoungpeople in developing countries. She advises governments, internationalinstitutions, foundations, and corporations on education and developmentissues, and provides guidance to a number of important education policyactors.

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BREAKOUTSESSIONPARTICIPANTS

CaseteachingaspracticedacrossdisciplinesandprofessionsatHarvard

CarolynWood (facilitator) is Assistant Academic Deanand Director of Strengthening Learning and TeachingExcellence(SLATE)andtheCaseProgram.Sheworkstopromote engagement, deep learning and enduringunderstanding among students by fostering thedevelopment and implementation of learner-centeredcurriculumandpedagogy.

Archon Fung is the Academic Dean and FordFoundation Professor ofDemocracy andCitizenship atthe Harvard Kennedy School. He co-directs theTransparency Policy Project and leads democraticgovernanceprogramsoftheAshCenterforDemocraticGovernanceandInnovationattheKennedySchool.

MatthewMillerisLectureronEducationandAssociateDean for Learning and Teaching at the HarvardGraduateSchoolofEducation.Heteachesinthehighereducationprogramandoverseescourseandcurriculumplanning,supportoffaculty-andstudent-led initiativesfor innovation in learning and teaching, and otherongoingacademicprioritiesofthedean'soffice.

V.G.Narayanan isThomasD.Casserly, Jr.ProfessorofBusiness Administration and Chair, MBA ElectiveCurriculum.His research includes the use of analyticalmodeling and field data to study how financialincentives can be used as a catalyst to form desirablehabits and harness other motivators such as peerpressure.

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BREAKOUTSESSIONPARTICIPANTS

Howcanresearchadvancelearning?

Andrew Ho (facilitator) is Professor of Education atHarvardGraduateSchoolofEducationandChairoftheViceProvost forAdvances in Learning (VPAL)ResearchFaculty Committee.He is a psychometrician interestedin educational accountability metrics: an intersectionbetweeneducationalstatisticsandeducationalpolicies.

Dustin Tingley (facilitator) is Professor of Governmentin the Government Department at Harvard Universityand FacultyDirector for theVice Provost forAdvancesin Learning (VPAL) Research Team. His researchinterests include international relations, internationalpolitical economy, and experimental approaches topolitical science.Dustin isDirectorofGraduateStudies

in the Government Department, directs IQSS's Undergraduate ResearchScholarprogramand is the foundingdirectorof theProgramonExperienceBased Learning in the Social Sciences, as well as the co-founder ofABLConnect, an online repository for active learning across Harvard andhighereducation,morebroadly.

Meira Levinson is Professor of Education at HarvardGraduate School of Education. Her interests includeethical dilemmas in education, civic education andengagement,andmethodsforlinkingnormativetheoryand educational policy and practice. Having taught inmiddle schools for nearly a decade, she is alsointerested in bridging knowledge and skill gaps

betweenK-12andhighereducation.

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Howcanresearchadvancelearning?(continued)

Dan Levy is Senior Lecturer inPublicPolicy andFacultyChair of the Kennedy School's SLATE (StrengtheningLearningandTeachingExcellence) Initiative.Heteachescourses in quantitative methods, policy analysis, andprogram evaluation. He has become increasinglyinterested in developing and using interactive digitalmaterials as a way to complement and strengthenresidentialeducation.

Todd Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy atthe Harvard Kennedy School and Director of theStudent Social Support R&D Lab. He is a behavioralscientistwhosecurrentresearchexploreswhyandhowsocialnetworkscanbecomeeffectiveacademicsupportsystems.

Creativeapproachesandnudgesforeducationaldevelopment

CassandraVolpeHorii(facilitator)isFoundingDirectorof the Center for Teaching, Learning, andOutreach atthe California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Hercurrent research addresses undergraduate researchmentoring, instructional consultation methods, STEMeducational change, and instructional technology.CassandrapreviouslyservedasDeanoftheFacultyand

FoundingDirectoroftheFacultyCenteratCurryCollegeinMilton,AssociateDirector of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at HarvardUniversity,andPreceptorofExpositoryWritingatHarvard.ShereceivedherPhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the Harvard Department of Earth andPlanetaryScience.

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BREAKOUTSESSIONPARTICIPANTS

Student-ledlearning:Howandwhy?

JonHanson(facilitator)istheAlfredSmartProfessorofLaw, the Faculty Director of The Systemic JusticeProject, and the Director of The Project on Law andMindSciencesatHarvardLawSchool.Histeachingandscholarship melds social psychology, social cognition,economics, history, and law. Hanson has receivedseveralteachingawardsandisthefacultyleaderfor1LSectionSix.

JacobLipton(facilitator)istheProgramDirectoroftheSystemic Justice Project, a policy innovationcollaboration at Harvard Law School devoted toworking with students to identify injustice, designsolutions, promote awareness, and advocate reformstopolicymakers,opinionleaders,andthepublic.

BethAltringerisaLectureronInnovationandDesignatSEASandGSD,withaPhD inpsychology(of innovativework) and an architecture masters. She studies whatfactors differentiate more (and less) successfulinnovation strategies, processes, product designs, andtraining. She runs research for PFF (robotic vehicles)andbuildssoftwaretotestdesigndesirabilitytheories.

Shigehisa (Hisa) Kuriyama is Reischauer InstituteProfessor of Cultural History and Chair of theDepartment of East Asian Languages andCivilizations.Hehasbeenactivelyengagedinexpandingthehorizons of teaching and scholarly communicationthroughthecreativeuseofdigitaltechnologies.

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Small-scaleteachinginnovations

Matthew Schwartz (facilitator) is Professor of Physicsat Harvard University. Since he arrived at Harvard in2008, he has been working to improve teaching andeducation in the physics department. ProfessorSchwartz has overhauled both undergraduate andgraduate courses, incorporating active learning andother modern approaches to connect with today's

student body. He is also interested in science education and undergraduateeducationmorebroadly.

ChristopherRobichaud is Lecturer inEthicsandPublicPolicy at theHarvard Kennedy School of Government.Hisworkfocusesonareasinethics,politicalphilosophy,and social epistemology.Dr. Robichaud is currentlypursuing the pedagogical goal of "gamifying" certaincomponents of the curriculum at HKS. His efforts inusing gameplay to facilitate learning have been

incorporated into areas ranging from the core MPP curriculum to someExecutiveEducationprograms.

Richard Schwartzstein is the Ellen andMelvinGordonProfessor of Medicine and Medical Education, andDirectorofTheAcademyatHarvardMedicalSchoolandthe Shapiro Institute for Education and Research atHMS and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr.Schwartzstein played a key role in the design of thePathwayscurriculumatHMSandhaswrittenanaward

winningtextbookonrespiratoryphysiology.InadditiontohisclinicalworkatBIDMC,heservesasVPforEducation.

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Small-scaleteachinginnovations(continued)

AndrewWarren is JohnL. LoebAssociateProfessorofthe Humanities in Harvard's Department of English,whereheisalsotheDirectorofUndergraduateStudies.He co-directs the Mahindra Humanities Center'sSeminarinDialecticalThinking,andteachesandwritesabout Romanticism, poetry, philosophy and criticaltheory.

Lucie White is Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law atHarvard Law School and Interim Faculty Chair of theHarvardCommitteeonAfricanStudies.ShehasbeenaFulbright Senior Africa Scholar, a Carnegie Scholar onTeaching and Learning, a scholar in residence at theHarvard Divinity School, and a Bunting Scholar atRadcliffe College. She is the founding director of the

law school's Ghana Project, a field-based course in which students take aninteractive workshop in Cambridge followed by advocacy in Ghana oneconomic and social rights. She has done ethnography of US welfareclaimants, case studiesof innovativeAfricanadvocacy,and isdoingon-goingworkonrace-linkedpovertyintheUSsouth.

Slowingdownlearningandthebenefitsoffrustration

JamesEngell(facilitator)isGurneyProfessorofEnglishandProfessorofComparativeLiterature,amemberoftheCommitteeonDegreesintheProgramonHistory&Literature, and a faculty associate of the HarvardUniversityCenterfortheEnvironment.HehasdirecteddissertationsalsoinAmericanStudiesandtheStudyofReligion.

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LUNCHPANEL

OpportunitiesforimprovingteachingandlearningatHarvard

Alan M. Garber (moderator) is Provost of HarvardUniversity,whereheholdsfacultyappointmentsintheMedical School, FacultyofArts andSciences, KennedySchool of Government, and School of Public Health.Alan’s academic work explores health policy and theeconomicsofhealthcare.AsProvost,Alanhastakenaspecial interest in pedagogy and teaching, leading

Harvardin itspartnershipwithMITtocreateedX.HereceivedhisABsummacum laude andPhD inEconomics fromHarvardUniversity,aswellashisMDwithresearchhonorsfromStanfordUniversity.

DanielleAllenisDirectoroftheEdmondJ.SafraCenterfor Ethics at Harvard University and professor inHarvard’s Department of Government and GraduateSchoolofEducation.Sheisapoliticaltheoristwhohaspublished broadly in democratic theory, politicalsociology,andthehistoryofpolitical thought.She isaChairoftheMellonFoundationBoard,pastChairofthe

Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts andSciencesandAmericanPhilosophicalSociety.

Edward (Ned)Hall isNormanE.Vuilleumier Professorof Philosophy and Chair of the Department ofPhilosophy.He works on a range of topics inmetaphysics and epistemology that overlap withphilosophy of science. Hall firmly believes thatphilosophicaldiscoursealwaysgoesbetterifthepartiesinvolved resolutely avoid any “burden-shifting”

maneuvers,andthatteachingalwaysgoesbetterifyoubringcookies.

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EVENTSTAFF

DamienBoutillon

HILTFellow

BrookePulitzer

DirectorofProgramsandAdministration

BeaFrain

ExecutiveAssistantandProjectCoordinator

SarahShaughnessy

AssistantDirectorofProgramsandAdministration

MelissaGodet

ProjectCoordinator