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Strategic Planning Themes
Be Purposeful & Relevant in What We Teach and Learn
- Add new areas of study to equip students with greater adaptability and flexibility to succeed in a global environment. Examine new languages, culture studies, policy studies, law, medicine, and other health-related areas, critical thinking skills, humanities, etc. needed by Georgia Tech graduates in the future in order to adapt and succeed in 2035.
- Broaden the curriculum so that students can develop a broader range of capabilities without losing the focus and rigor of a technological university.
- Provide more opportunities for experiential learning in the curriculum, including study-abroad programs and ways of getting international experience.
- Engage students in research and other real-world applications to hone their knowledge and skills, and adequately prepare them for their careers.
Your comments relating to this strategic theme are invited and welcome. Specific ideas/suggestions about possible future approaches at Georgia Tech in this subject area are particularly important and helpful to the planning process.
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Community Based Learning Submitted by Anonymous on Wednesday November 18, at 1:48 pm
The strategic plan suggests providing more opportunities for experiential learning in the curriculum through study abroad programs. Community- based learning, a pedagogical innovation in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning, is another form of experiential education. Research shows that by connecting learning outcomes with community needs, community-based learning develops critical thinking, global citizenship, and leadership skills. Located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia Tech has many opportunities to connect academic learning with local, state, national, and international development. Similar to other experiential learning models, service-learning preserves rigor by engaging students in the real-life application of theory learned in the classroom while also providing students with skills that will help them in the workforce. Georgia Tech’s Engineering Students without Borders (ESWB), a student-led organization working on projects in developing countries, illustrates the success of engineering community-based learning programs.
Optimized Educational Delivery Submitted by Gary Brown on Tuesday October 20, at 10:28 pm
A method of optimized educational delivery exists that introduces at least two different types of research programs for engineering and sciences in the same semester of any subject. They are conducted as lab add-ons in each and every semester, varying in complexity and depth as the program matures the student's ability. The first is a natural research project, using table top or local field locations, and cost effective budgets. The research program introduces the world's most impressive singe technology; electronics, in each science and engineering semester primarily though the use of low cost sensors and making operational supporting multi-channel data logging. The focus is NOT on electronic circuit design for its own sake, or design, but on getting data loggers running in labs or in the field, that can deliver the data science and engineering require to progress with research and engineering.
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