For residential programs, online learning can be used to enhance the residential student learning experience. For example, a flipped classroom model sees faculty pre-producing asynchronous learning materials, which could be reused across classes and cohorts. This allows for classroom time to be dedicated to active learning, ranging from additional studio time, to discussions, to case studies, to deeper question and answer sessions.

There are also opportunities for scaled learning opportunities, including not only GSD students but also interested students within Harvard, locally, and globally. One example is the course The Architectural Imagination , an architecture history course offered by K. Michael Hays. A collaboration between the GSD, VPAL, and EdX, this course is fully asynchronous and open to any interested student on a global level. It is also used internally for entering GSD students.

To discuss online learning opportunities for your course, or to think about scaling or sharing your course in new ways, please reach out to Victoria Quamme Rhoden.