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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The Doyle Program: Engaging Difference

Tolerance and Diversity

Launched in Fall 2009, the Doyle Program is designed to deepen the university’s commitment to tolerance and diversity and to enhance global awareness of the challenges and opportunities of an era of increasing interconnectedness.

The classroom component of the Doyle Program, Doyle Faculty Fellowships, involves supporting and challenging Georgetown faculty seeking to foster active student engagement with difference and the diversity of human experience.

Faculty Fellows

In the Classroom

Through innovative teaching approaches, Doyle faculty fellows work to integrate ongoing discussions of diversity and inclusion with the intellectual themes of their courses. The fundamental goal of the Doyle Fellowships is to enable faculty to create inclusive teaching strategies and diversified course content that will transform the learning experience for all.

In addition to trying to get students to think about diversity and tolerance, I actually got them to learn more social psychology; the whole process of thinking about each of the topics in a personal and applied way led to better academic understanding as well as good ethical applications.
W. Gerrod Parrott (Psychology), Doyle Faculty Fellow 2009-2010

Partners

Made possible by a generous gift from alumnus and Board of Directors member William J. Doyle (C’72), the Doyle Program represents a campus-wide collaboration between the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), and Georgetown College.

Launch the full Doyle Program Website.