November 1, 2009

Professors and students create video and multimedia

Faculty members are adapting the traditional lecture format with visual and multimedia elements--a new form of teaching. View examples of twenty-first-century pedagogy now in use in Harvard classrooms.

From The November-December 2009 Issue

In this Web Extra that accompanies the article "Professor Video," watch a trailer for Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama's class, "Culture and Belief 11: Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe," and listen to samples of the podcasts Kuriyama has students submit in lieu of response papers. Below, see additional videos that go along with the article.

Student work: Listen to "Why is there a history to medicine and the body?" by Latif Nasser

Student work: Listen to "Why is there a history..." by Erika Cheng

Video courtesy of Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama

Clips courtesy of Erika Cheng and Latif Nasser. Sample more clips.

Watch the BioVisions film, The Inner Life of a Cell, used by professors including Rob Lue, professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology.

Video courtesy of Professor Rob Lue

Watch a clip from Professor Tom Kelly's "First Nights" lecture on Stravinsky.

Video courtesy of Professor Tom Kelly

Published in the November-December 2009 print issue under the headline “Teaching with Video,” in the section.

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