Appendix B: Task Force Charge

Appendix B: Task Force Charge

The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated an array of innovations in teaching and learning throughout Harvard and its global community. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni countered constraint with creativity, isolation with engagement, and interruption with accelerated collaboration. What are the longer-term implications of these changes? How can we ensure that we use the experience from this past year to think strategically and imaginatively about the transformative opportunities around teaching and learning across the University? And how can we align this thinking with Harvard’s mission and maximize learner potential? The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force will explore these questions to identify what our university can do to deliberately and thoughtfully merge traditional assets and digital opportunities to strengthen education on our campus and beyond. Comprised of academic leaders from across the University, and a range of disciplines and backgrounds, the Task Force will develop a report for the Office of the President and Provost. The report will identify a vision and strategic blueprint for Harvard in its post-pandemic development as a world leader in higher education. The report may recommend university-wide principles at multiple levels, alignment of initiatives, mechanisms to encourage ongoing innovation, and investments in new resources. The Task Force intends this report to enable Harvard’s many Schools, offices, and leaders to advance learning and teaching long into the future.