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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Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive

Digital stories are multimedia projects combining text, images, audio, and video files into short film clips. Digital stories have proven to be a powerful medium for students to represent a theoretically-informed understanding of texts and contexts in a form other than “traditional” writing.

The Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive represents the results of a multi-campus study of digital storytelling led by Michael Coventry (Communication, Culture and Technology) and Matthias Oppermann (Bielefeld University). The archive explores what is distinctive about the medium of digital storytelling and what implications digital storytelling can have for teaching and learning.

Examples

On the Digital Stories Multimedia Archive site, you can view students' digital stories along with excerpts from student interviews in which they talk about their work.

You can view some other examples of student-produced digital stories on the website for gnovis, the online journal for Georgetown's Communication, Culture & Technology program.

Visible Knowledge Project

The Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive developed from the work of the Visible Knowledge Project, a multi-campus research study on teaching and learning. In all, more than seventy faculty from twenty-two institutions participated in the Visible Knowledge Project over five years. Learn more about the Visible Knowledge Project.

Michael Coventry and Matthias Oppermann wrote an essay about the process of developing the Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive, which you can read—along with other case studies from the Visible Knowledge Project—here.