CASEE Research Affiliate: Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Research Foci:
As a GT-wide center (we report to the Office of the Provost), CETL gets involved with research on teaching and learning as it impacts all units on campus. In addition, due to the nature of Georgia Tech, all projects have an engineering link in that faculty in all units on campus struggle with how to teach engineering students - this is sometimes a harder issue for the non-engineering faculty than those within the college of engineering. And, as the ABET criteria broaden and strengthen the need for "softer" non-engineering skills and educational goals, these issues are becoming paramount.
CETL is involved, in varying degrees, in a large number of projects across the Georgia Tech campus. In some, we have taken the lead, while in others we are helping to provide the assessment of learning objectives), and in still others we serve in an advisory capacity. We are not a narrow center with a focused research agenda, but rather we are a responsive organization that agrees to research topics that are pertinent to the units on campus involved in educating our undergraduate students.
Examples of the broad topics that these projects currently cover are the following:
- Exploration of issues that inhibit certain groups from matriculation into engineering or related degree programs and the effectiveness of various intervention efforts.
- Exploration of issues related to optimizing student learning through the uses of instructional and collaborative technologies.
- Exploration of issues of partnership with local K-12 school districts and the benefits that these partnerships provide to engineering students.
Contact Information:
Donna C. Llewellyn, Ph.D.
Director
Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Georgia Tech
225 North Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30332-0383
Phone: 404-894-2340
Email: donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu