Technology-enhanced Learning

Effectively using technology to enhance learning is crucial to the survival of institutions of higher education.

Georgetown is engaging this challenge
head-on, embracing technology-enhanced learning throughout its curriculum by:
- Breaking geographical barriers of traditional learning—allowing students to connect with diverse cultural perspectives and experts around the world
- Helping students learn to write critically and communicate effectively using today’s media
- Providing a highly-interactive learning environment of meaningful feedback, whether socially through blogs or through computer-based adaptive systems
- Optimizing mentorship from Georgetown’s faculty experts
- Accelerating the learning curve from basic knowledge to complex problem solving
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Research-based Learning

Building on the learning of foundational knowledge and engaging students in research and inquiry is essential for equipping them to be professionals, leaders, and citizens in
the 21st century.

Georgetown is infusing its curriculum with research-based learning by:
- Teaching research skills to explore the world’s most pressing challenges
- Taking advantage of unprecedented access to information, by helping students learn how to work with and interpret data, including big data, as part of in-depth analysis
- Crafting coursework so that students contribute meaningfully to public knowledge and the solutions to global challenges
- Expanding opportunities outside the classroom for authentic research across the globe
- Creating innovators who learn from failure and are comfortable with uncertainty
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Integrative Learning

Merging world-class education with commitment to the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, care of the whole person, Georgetown is dedicated to educating women and men for others who can connect their academic experiences
with the choices they make in life.

Aligning students' lives in and beyond the classroom, Georgetown is:
- Bringing real-life issues into the classroom
  through readings, guest speakers, class discussions, projects, and assignments
- Pushing students to critically reflect on their lives and make transformative personal connections between coursework and their experiences
- Extending classroom discussion and reflection into community-based work
- Creating citizens of the world whose educations and reflective judgment inform the way they live their lives
- Helping students develop empathy for difference and the capacity for civil dialogue
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Georgetown Learning Initiatives
Leading innovation in the shifting landscape of education

More than a decade ago, Georgetown recognized that higher education would be impacted by enormous shifts in the information and communication environment. With the mindset of an innovation lab, the University began exploring ways to fuse its commitment to excellence in teaching and learning with the powerful, emerging capacities of a digital environment. Today, Georgetown is a leader in reimagining how learning happens.

The Three Dimensions of Our Vision

President John J. DeGioia reflects on the importance of reimagining tradition at Georgetown University.

Georgetown University professors, administrators, and students explore how Georgetown is working to reimagine teaching approaches and learning spaces to educate innovative and capable thinkers for the 21st century.

Technology-enhanced Learning

Research-based Learning

Integrative Learning

The Three Dimensions of Our Vision