About

HUIT's Academic Technology Services provides academic technology platforms for use across the University, and academic and scholarly technology consulting, development, and support for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Academic Technology Group

The Academic Technology Group (ATG) supports technology-enhanced teaching and learning in the FAS via multimedia teaching materials and course websites, technology and classroom support for a variety of pedagogical models, visualization and simulation tools, and custom-developed software.

Teaching and Learning Technologies

A Harvard IT strategic initiative, Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) provides a set of core technologies to support teaching and learning; the ability to extend this core through custom component development; and the ability to extract data across courses for educational research. We are partnering with stakeholders across Harvard to advance this initiative.

Digital Video Services (DVS)

Digital Video Services (DVS) is part of the Harvard University IT organization.  The mission of DVS is to provide reliable and scalable University-wide video solutions to address the video needs across campus and to keep the deployed video solutions up-to-date with industry trends.  DVS provides services in that areas of lecture capture, live streaming, video content management, video storage & archive, video captioning, and video consulting.  DVS conducts the research and piloting of video technologies that break down barriers for University faculty and staff to capture, process, manage, distribute, and live stream classroom activities with better quality and a much improved user experience.  Currently DVS is analyzing a new lecture capture solution to centralize Harvard’s process of recording and delivering lecture videos. This new process will be automated and streamlined for efficiency and easier usage. The quality and reliability of the videos will give students and faculty members more resources in their learning and teaching methods.  DVS is also responsible for cultivating a University-wide video community across library, schools and various administrative units to develop, share and promote video related policies and best practices.

Digital Arts and Humanities at Harvard University

The Digital Arts and Humanities team at Harvard is working to make it easier for faculty and students to express themselves in new and creative ways using digital technologies, to help them organize and gain insight into vast bodies of visual and textual information, and to join them in experimenting with computer-aided analysis of all forms of digital information. Part of its mission is to create a portal where arts and humanities scholars can find the resources they need for their digital media and research computing needs. Its website contains events and news for timely information, as well as articles and features on relevant issues and tools.