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Canvas Module Templates: Creating flexible resources for Canvas design and organization

by: Kelley Hirsch | Learning Designer

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At the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL), we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can help faculty members get the most out of Canvas. As we moved from 100% online instruction last year to this year’s mix of in-person, online, and flexible...

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About T127: Q&A between 2020 Fall Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow

The Teaching and Learning Lab Practicum (T127) offered in the Fall and Spring semesters at HGSE for both Master’s and Doctoral students, explores technology-enhanced designs for learning. In the practicum, students apply course principles related to the design and development of learning experiences to actual ongoing projects within the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL). In academic year 20/21, the course - like many others - shifted modality from in-person to online. In this blog, Nina Tompkin, a current graduate student of the TIE program at HGSE and Ragini Lall, an alumna of...

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TLL Online Learning Fellows

TLL Online Learning Fellows

by: Bill Wisser

When the Harvard Graduate School of Education made the decision to launch a fully-remote Master’s program we knew that we had a lot of work in front of us. The Teaching and Learning Lab’s core team of learning designers, media producers, learning technologists, and instructional coaches have years of experience designing online courses, both for the Ed.M. program and for our partners in Professional Education. From that experience we knew that creating high-quality, engaging, online learning experiences takes a tremendous amount of effort, both on the part of the faculty members and the support staff. We had to increase our staffing across the group to meet this challenge, but hiring takes time and any new staff members we brought on would have limited time to get up to speed on the specific characteristics of the School, the faculty, and TLL processes. 

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