Come study with me at Georgetown University

Are you interested in education and technology?  Is working on the future of higher education a goal for you?  Then consider taking classes with my colleagues and I at Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology program!

This is a graduate program where people study the intersection of higher education with technology from a design thinking perspective.  We work on Georgetown’s campus, in the heart of the great city of Washington, DC.

LDT’s curriculum is rich and focused. A foundations class introduces new students to graduate study, our topics, and professional directions, while starting to build a learning community.   Required classes cover vital topics: technology, learning and design methods, learning analytics, the university as design problem, and educational research methods.  An eportfolio class helps students build a web presence, with an emphasis on WordPress and students’ own web domains.  Then there are a host of electives, from AI’s impact on higher ed to gaming for learning and teaching,  data analytics to critical speculative design for social justice.

Personally, I teach seminars on AI’s impact on higher education, on technology and innovation, educational technology, gaming in education, and the future of higher ed, plus the foundations class.  I include AI in all of these classes now.

Pedagogically, LDT is all about active learning. We keep lectures to a minimum and instead emphasize discussion, student inquiry, hands-on work, project-based learning, and constructivism.

The student body is brilliant. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds: higher ed, K-12, nonprofits, media, museums, and more.  They are thoughtful, creative, and ambitious.  And students are thoroughly international, with people drawn from around the world, from India, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, Columbia, Chile, Canada, to name a few.

Moreover, my colleagues are great.  They include Eddie Maloney, Maggie Debelius, Yianna Vovides, Randy Bass, Dawan Stanford, David Ebenbach, Lee Skallerup Bessette, and more.  I consistently learn from them as we design every semester’s offerings. I feel like I’m getting another MA by working with them.

Naturally I love teaching in the program. It’s a joy to work with these students on these topics. Every day I’m excited to be in classes build around active learning and to see students flourish.  I bring in my latest research to see what folks make of it, which is both productive and fun.

So much good stuff comes right out of the LDT world.  In classes students create great research and projects.  Faculty write books and make other media.  Everyone collaborated on the powerful Big Rethink project.  And then, after getting their MAs, students go on to great professional success: promotions, new jobs, PhD study, starting new enterprises, changing their organizations, rethinking education… which is the point of the whole thing.  Personally, I love hosting LDT graduates in the Foundations class, so they can show new students what they’ve accomplished.

Check out the LDT website.  Look into the classes I teach, if those interest you.  Fling questions at me or the program staff.  Then, if this engages you, please do apply.