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Readings for Day Four – Thursday, August 2

Session 14: New Methods to Enhance Participant-Centered Learning

Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

Bill Sahlman and Liz Kind “Khan Academy,” HBS Case No. N9-812-074, 2012

Thompson, Clive, “How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education,” Wired, July 15, 2011.

University 2.0 – VIDEO.

Explore Website: Udacity

Please come prepared to discuss the following questions:

In some ways the Khan Academy model of self-directed learning has so much to offer regions in India where student interest may be high, but resources and teacher accountability can be astonishingly low. Readily available hardware, software, and internet connectivity could do much to allow individual students to take charge of their educations, through Khan Academy, and unlock their own potential. How would you begin to tackle such a proposition? Do you think such efforts could have the impact without teacher support?


Session 15: Widener Library – Operations and Services

Ramona Islam, Curricular Design and Research Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University

Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development

Review the Harvard College Library Website: http://hcl.harvard.edu/. You will find general information, including several policy documents on collections under the green ‘information’ tab with links to ‘Collections/Digital Collections.’


Session 16: Strategies for Fundraising: Budgeting, Planning, and Development

Paul Keenan, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Development, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Supporting Harvard’s Mission: Benefactor’s Handbook, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Click here to view the powerpoint presentation for this session.


Session 17: Universities as Change Agents

Dinner with Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

Auletta, Ken, “Get Rich U.” The New Yorker, April 30, 2012

NPR radio clip: Stanfor’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses for Credit and Degrees?