Levy Clip 5

Instructional Themes: Instructional technology; Using humor; Exercising flexibility; tech trouble; rapport with students

Profiled: Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches "Advanced Quantitative Methods" to 74 students at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Clip Length: 2 minutes, 45 seconds (50:53-53:38)

Clip Context:

• “Advanced Quantitative Methods,” a graduate-level course at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with 74 students enrolled.
• This course aims to equip students with the necessary statistical tools to improve public policy at the global level. In this class, Levy’s students explore the context of multiple regression through an interactive lecture combined with pair and small-group work.
• This clip comes close to the end of the hour-long class period, about 50 minutes in. The technology that has been broadcasting Levy’s notes from the iPad to the screen goes down, so Levy must exercise flexibility. When the technology comes back online, he hands the iPad to a student to share her solution to a problem for the class.