LDT offers its students several opportunities to actively participate in programmatic efforts and partner with faculty on applied innovation initiatives. These learning by doing opportunities enable LDT students to integrate what they are learning in their coursework to broader, cross-cutting efforts taking place inside and outside of the formal education space.
We list some of the key initiatives below and invite you to read more about the program’s efforts.
The Learning, Design, and Technology Graduate Student Association
The Learning, Design, and Technology Graduate Student Association (LDT-GSA) aims to represent all Georgetown University graduate students in the Learning, Design, and Technology Master’s Program by fostering a sense of community among students and providing them with opportunities to engage in intellectual and social activities outside of the classroom.
The main goals of the LDT-GSA are:
- To represent all graduate students in the LDT program at Georgetown University.
- To increase the visibility of the LDT program at Georgetown University.
- To uphold and support the mission of the LDT program at Georgetown University.
- To provide a vehicle for graduate students to express their needs, interest, and concerns.
- To provide an atmosphere for graduate students to participate in social, academic, and professional pursuits.
LDT Student, Sarah Chamberlain was awarded a competitive Fellowship with EdSurge Independent, as she and 9 other Fellows were selected from a pool of applicants from around the world. Throughout her fellowship, Sarah will meet with other Fellows online every week to discuss the most pressing challenges in education, as well as engage with leading educators, philanthropists and entrepreneurs. Stay tuned for more updates from Sarah, as she will be sharing her perspectives on teaching and learning, and associated challenges throughout the Fall, with EdSurge Independent.
In November 2018, Ijeoma Njaka will attend the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education annual conference for a poster presentation. Earlier this year, she received the POD Network Donald H. Wulff Diversity Travel Fellowship, a funding opportunity for practitioners historically underrepresented in the broader conversation on educational and faculty development. Last spring, Ijeoma also had the opportunity to attend the 2018 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) as a Student Scholar. There, Ijeoma presented a Pecha Kucha format (a presentation style consisting of spending 20 seconds on a set of 20 slides) on bicultural identity, decolonization of the mind, and Prince.
Lina Zuluaga was among the top 25 finalists in the US Department of Education’s Reimagine the Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge with her project on The First Blockchain University with the First Global Career Bridge–Woolf & TalentoLab. Lina is the founder of and head of applied research at TalentoLab. Her research is at the cutting-edge of how effective methods of learning design and knowledge management remove institutional silos in industries that must adapt to survive the fourth industrial revolution. She also provides strategic advice to the International Development Bank. Lina acknowledges support from Mary Rowe, former Ombuds at MIT; Maurice Ashley, Grandmaster and MIT Media Lab; Jose Manuel Restrepo, Colombian Minister of Trade and Commerce; Phil Komarny, VP of Innovation Salesforce; Mark Schneider, Director IES; Diego Molano, former Minister of Technology and McKinsey global advisor on Digital Transformation for governments and companies and Emiliana Vegas, Chief of the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank.