An opinion article suggesting Harvard refusal of private high school applicants in hopes to put funding back into public institutions.
multiplayer locally social gaming
Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government.
To study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of
social relationships (and how social relationships affect tastes, habits
and values), a team of researchers from Harvard and the University of
California, Los Angeles, are monitoring the Facebook profiles of an
entire class of students at one college.
A joint project between Harvard and BBN Technologies to deploy a sensor network throughout Cambridge for research and educational purposes.
Love them or hate them, interactive games — in this case, one called Alien Contact! — have moved out of the living room and into the classroom. What Chris Dede wants to know is: What potential does this have for learning in the classroom? Surprisingly, although Dede’s official title is “professor in learning technologies” and he and his team created Alien Contact! as well as another program, River City, he isn’t determined to find a positive answer to that question.
Links provided by Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum
education, technology, project management.
Links to resources covering the above topics
Harvard site with links to various tech initiatives at the university