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Memberships

Harvard belongs to several external professional organizations that focus on the use of information technology to improve teaching, learning, and research. 

EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

ELI

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation.

The New Media Consortium

The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.

NorthEast Regional Computing Program

NERCOMP's mission is to enhance the communication and dissemination of information related to the use of computers, networks, and information technology in education, academic research, and educational administration throughout the Northeastern United States.

POD

The Professional and Organizational Development

The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education is devoted to improving teaching and learning in higher education. Central to POD’s philosophy is lifelong, holistic, personal, and professional learning, growth, and change for the higher education community

Sloan Consortium

The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education.

Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL, pronounced "able") is a nonprofit, professional organization for the world ePortfolio community. ePortfolio community leaders recognized in 2008 that ePortfolio, as a technology and as a body of theory and practices, had emerged as a promising influence and direction for education. As such, we decided ePortfolio needed its own professional association to catalyze the implementation of ePortfolios in education. We deeply believed in the value of ePortfolio for learning, assessment, and lifelong career success. Therefore, AAEEBL was formed in 2009 within the existing ePortfolio community to serve educators and the ePortfolio industry.

Internal Memberships and Special-Interest Groups

Within Harvard, the ABCD Committee has several working groups that focus on a broad range of computing topics. The work of the ABCD-Technology in Education Group is of particular interest to the Academic Technology Community at Harvard. 

ABCD 
The ABCD Committee is an informal association of system managers, programmers, researchers, students, administrators, and faculty at Harvard University. Formed in November 1985, with just seven people, the group has grown into an organization with more than 700 members. The group's primary objective is to promote communication over a broad range of computer-related topics and issues.

ABCD-TIE 
The Technology in Education working group is a Harvard staff affinity group whose focus is on innovative uses of technology in teaching and learning. The group is open to members of the Harvard community and meets on the first Monday of each month during the school year from 12:15 to 1:45pm in the Lamont Forum Room.