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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Telepresence Classroom

A Mixed Virtual Classroom

The Telepresence Classroom

Georgetown’s telepresence classroom uses immersive videoconferencing technology to connect students on the Hilltop with students at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. The telepresence system effectively creates a mixed virtual classroom composed of students in Qatar and in D.C.

The telepresence room has been the perfect place to discuss issues of our concern. Listening to different views gives us a clearer understanding of our world.
That’s the point of any educational institution and the RPX room helps in attaining that goal.
Lamia Adi, Student, SFS-Qatar

Causes of War

David Edelstein's "Causes of War" Class

In this video, you'll see Professor David Edelstein teaching his class "The Causes of War" to students in Doha and DC simultaneously.

Classes

Classes Taught in the Telepresence Classroom

Social Enterprise in the Middle East and United States
Multinational Corporations
War Ethnography
Humanitarian Action
Revolutions in Comparative Perspective

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