Individual Course
Leaders of Learning Essentials
Course Length
5 weeks
2–3 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Enroll as Individual
Price:
$ 199
Coming soon
Enroll as Individual
Price:
$ 199
Coming soon
Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.
All of us carry explicit or implicit theories of learning. They show up in how we learn, how we teach, how we design learning experiences, and how we lead people and institutions.
In this course, you’ll surface your own assumptions about learning through guided self-assessment, then sharpen them into a clear, usable personal theory of learning. From there, you’ll zoom out to examine how different organizational structures—from schools to companies to nonprofits and beyond—reveal (and reinforce) the learning philosophies they claim to hold.
This course isn’t only about education systems. It’s about the broader world of learning, and the leadership choices shaping it. As the sector undergoes transformation, fundamental questions are being reexamined: How do people learn best? What is worth learning? Who gets access and why? You’ll explore leadership approaches that fit different learning environments, and gain practical tools to imagine and help build the future of learning in your context.
Self-Guided
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- Learning Outcome
Identify and articulate your personal theory of learning through structured reflection and self-assessment.
- Learning Outcome
Adapt leadership approaches to different learning environments, using context to guide strategy and decision-making.
- Learning Outcome
Apply frameworks and tools to envision and build future-focused learning experiences and systems within your organization or community.
- Learn from Harvard faculty
- Do it on your own time
- Get a certificate, add it to your resume
- Be part of the Harvard Community
Ways to take this course
Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
A Verified Certificate costs $199 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.
Faculty
Your Instructor
Richard Elmore
The Gregory R. Anrig Research Professor of Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Richard Elmore, Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, passed away in February 2021. For the past fifteen years his research and clinical practice has concentrated on the improvement of instructional practice in schools and classrooms, and the development of organizational systems to support those improvements. Most recently, he was focused on the fundamental redesign of learning environments, and the development of leaders and entrepreneurs to create and sustain those environments, all in light of dramatic changes in our understanding of the neuroscience of learning and the exponential growth of digital culture. He was founding faculty director of the Doctor of Educational Leadership (EdLD) program at Harvard.
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