Since the early 1970s, Spectrum Media has been producing award-winning films and videos on education. Working closely with teachers, students, and administrators, we use a documentary-style approach to capture best practices in teaching.
Harvard University
The Derek Bok Center Series on College Teaching
Since 1992, Spectrum Media has worked closely with the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, producing a series of videos designed to introduce effective teaching techniques to university faculty and teaching assistants. The series of 13 videos is distributed nationally by Jossey-Bass. The videos include:
From Questions to Concepts explores Prof. Eric Mazur's interactive teaching model. Incorporating web-based assignments and in-class technology, he engages his students in a two-way learning experience that aims to promote their conceptual understanding of course material.
- Silver Remi Award, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
- Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
- Award of Distinction, Communicator Awards
Thinking Together focuses on the use of collaborative learning or peer teaching techniques in college level science classes.
- Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival
What Students Want features candid responses from Harvard University undergraduates on how students view teaching. Students talk about what helps them learn and what makes one class better than another.
MIT Sloan School of Management
Leadership Training Program
When the MIT Sloan School of Management expanded its course offerings on Leadership in its world-renowned MBA program, it developed a unique model for communicating the key capabilities of leadership. Spectrum Media created three videos for Sloan's orientation program to help illuminate this model. We interviewed several corporate leaders among Sloan's alumni, who shared their insights on management problems, ethical dilemmas and how leadership has changed in the 21st century's global economy.