Teaching & Learning

Explore innovations and trends in pedagogy, curriculum design, and classroom practice.

Readers Respond to Our ‘Grade Inflation’ Survey

A sampling of thoughts about the many A’s at Harvard

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

by John S. Rosenberg

How to Make a Massive Open Online Course

HarvardX transforms a popular course in epidemiology to serve a global audience.

by Jonathan Shaw

Derek Bok on reforming higher ed

Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard President Faust stepping down 2018

An expected transition, as the University’s twenty-eighth president plans to conclude her service.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard online learning update

From HarvardX to the classroom, Harvard Medical teaching online, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Business School academic growth plans

The Business School dean is bullish on engineering and data-science collaborations, and online learning.

by John S. Rosenberg

Online learning evolves at Harvard and elsewhere

Online learning, evolving at Harvard and beyond, attracts critical analysis.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs

The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more

MOOCs in the Classroom, and for Degrees

MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

David Malan’s Computer Science 50 expands to high-school classrooms

Harvard’s popular CS50 is being adapted for a new AP course.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova