Advising for a New Era

Envision a future in which each learner posesses an interactive database of their own educational timeline. This database would be augmented with a human-aware AI that coaches learners through meeting their goals throughout their education and careers. Georgia Tech intends to develop an advising resource that will provide this sort of precise assistance to long-term learners.

A Distributed Worldwide Presence

Our vision of a college campus is expanding. While a physical campus offers community and face-to-face learning, online classes provide flexibility and accessibility. Georgia Tech is working on two projects that will bridge the gap between on-campus and virtual learning. The Georgia Tech atrium™ is a scalable gathering place located anywhere in the world for Georgia Tech students to learn, create, and research. Each atrium will include the Library Store and the University Learning Store. An atrium might also contain career service centers, personal counseling and advising studios, an Invention Studio, and space for meetups associated with Georgia Tech’s online courses.

A second project, The Human Library, allows readers to interact with “human books,” volunteers with different backgrounds and social experiences. The volunteers are “on loan” to their “readers” for face-to-face conversations during organized events. The Human Library helps its users gain different perspectives on problems and events.