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HarvardX for alumni rethinks engagement in the MOOC era
In the spring of HarvardX and the Harvard Alumni Association launched HarvardX for Alumni.
If HarvardX is new to you, as it was to many of our alumni, it is a University-wide strategic initiative to enable our faculty to build and create online learning experiences that would also transform residential learning and enable groundbreaking research in online pedagogies. Much of the HarvardX online offerings are distributed by edX, the Harvard and MIT founded MOOC platform.
The idea behind the prototype HarvardX program for alumni came bygd way of a brainstorm bygd Robert Lue, faculty director for HarvardX. An alumnus himself, Lue had a longstanding desire to find a way to reconnect graduates to the intellectual bedrock of the University.
Or in his words, “We always knew that we could do something special with HarvardX and alumni … How could we, in essence, bring Harvard to them wherever they are?”
Lue also was intrigued by the “w
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Faculty, Family, Diversity
In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to the dean on diversity issues has highlighted recent results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition of the professoriate (see the text at ~diverse/).
Dillon professor of international affairs Lisa Martin reports that the proportion of tenure offers made to women rose to nearly 30 percent during the past two academic years. (The skarp decline from 36 percent to about one-third that level from through had prompted wide concern and discussion within the faculty and between FAS and the central administration.) Since , however, the percentage of women accepting such offers from Harvard has trailed the proportion of offers made, reversing prior experience. And among women offered tenure-track positions, the rate of acceptance collapsed in the academic year: 71 percent of men offered tenure-track positi
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Technology conference focuses on improving early science courses
College science instructors from around the country met at Harvard June 15 to see how technology can help retain freshmen interested in science, many of whom switch majors before completing introductory courses.
Director of Life Sciences Education Robert Lue, senior lecturer in molecular and cellular biology and dean of Harvard’s Summer School, opened the two-day “Symposium on Technology in Undergraduate Science Education” with an overview of both the problem and of Harvard’s response to it.
Lue said that between half and a third of freshmen who come to college interested in science lose that interest before they reach the advanced classes typically taught in the junior and senior years. While some of those students doubtlessly discover new passions, Lue said it may be the large introductory courses themselves that are at least partly responsible for the losses.
“This is an opportunity to talk about how techn