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MOOCs The New EraProfessional Education serves as Georgia Techs production arm for massive open onlinecourses (MOOCs). Working collaboratively with other Georgia Tech units like the Centerfor 21st Century Universities (C21U), the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching andLearning (CETL), and the Council for Educational Technology (CET), we have quicklyadapted and scaled numerous programs for the MOOC format. With Georgia Tech coursescarrying nearly 10 percent of online education provider Courseras total MOOC enrollmentand the program having grown so much over the last year, Georgia Tech has built across-departmental team to support faculty in creating and delivering MOOCs. To further

support faculty in developing MOOCs, a satellite studio has opened in the Klaus AdvancedComputing Building. Centrally located on campus, the Klaus studio allows faculty toproduce MOOC content and experiment with new education delivery approaches. Thenew studio will act in tandem with Professional Educations main production complex forinteractive instructional media at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

The New Georgia Tech-Savannah This year, Georgia Tech-Savannah formally shiftedinto a hub for professional education in the coastalGeorgia region. Weve invested in numerous regionalpartnerships to further economic prosperity in thearea. Newly announced campus neighbors helpingdrive that include Gulfstream and Great Dane

Trailers. Also housed there are the Georgia LogisticsInnovation Center and Georgia Techs Advanced

Technology Development Center (ATDC), a start-upincubator that helps technology entrepreneurs inGeorgia launch and grow successful companies.Professional Education also joined forces withthe Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business tooffer valuable Six Sigma education to the region.Partnering with one of the top business schools inthe country provides critical access to instructionfor Savannahs globally connected port community.Occupational safety and health courses furtherwiden the breadth of offerings and are offered inconjunction with Georgia Techs OSHA TrainingInstitute Education Center. The Savannah campushosted a slate of OSHA courses in 2013 and thenumber is set to double in 2014.

Partners in Education As part of the drive to cultivate relationships with industryand small businesses, Georgia Tech Professional Educationendeavors to create opportunities for employers to improveand enhance their workforces. Informed and educatedemployees are not only better for business, theyre betterfor the bottom linejust ask Matt Rawlins. As president ofRawlins Mechanical, a medical plumbing company, Rawlindecided to enroll himself and several of his employees inProfessional Educations Project Management certicateprogram. He wanted his project managers to learn skills tomanage and complete projects on time and within budget,while creating a quality product. He credits the Georgia TecProject Management Certicate for helping his team applythe nine Project Management Body of Knowledge areas. Wimmediately took information from the rst class and talkedabout what to do differently, he says. Were seeing majorchanges to project management even to this day.

769MeaningfulCredential:

ProfessionalCertificates Awarded(up from 734 in FY12)

F Y 1 3

7 6 9

F Y 1 2

7 3 4

Serving Those ThatBravely ServedGeorgia Tech Professional

Educations rst signatureinitiative in the Savannah area isthe Veterans Education, Transitionand Training program that assistsveterans with entering the civilian

workforce. With more than 115,000 military and civilianpersonnel stationed in the coastal region of Georgia and a13.9 percent unemployment rate of post-9/11 Georgia vets,military-focused programs represent an area where Georgia

Tech is leading in service to the Savannah area, our state andmost importantly, to the men and women who have servedour country. We are also partnering with non-prots likeWorkforce Opportunity Services (WOS) to create customizedprograms for companies serving vets. This allows ProfessionalEducation to further extend Georgia Tech expertise to trainveterans for critical roles.


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10 Years of Tech SquareOpened in 2003, the 1.4 millionsquare foot, Georgia Tech-sponsored

Tech Square encompasses education,research, hospitality, ofce and retail.

Tech Square serves as a new urbanmain street for the campus andthe Midtown Atlanta community.

Revitalizing eight blocks of an area of deteriorated andabandoned buildings and lots, the $380 million project isrecognized nationally as a standard of urban development.Professional Education and the Global Learning Center areproud to be ambassadors of the thriving high-tech corridorwhere people can be connected and inspired as they embracetodays challenges and opportunities. Part of our mission is tohelp build an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship inthe thriving urban environment of Atlanta. Just as Tech Squarestrives to connect private industry, government and academia,Professional Education endeavors to do the same.

Changing the Face of English as aSecond Language (ESL) Instruction

Three faculty members of the Georgia Tech Language

Institute were awarded Georgia Techs 2013 CurriculumInnovation Award by the Center for Excellence in Teachingand Learning. Dr. Lauren Lukkarila, assistant director ofthe Language Institute, and lecturers Crystal Followill andKaren Peterson were recognized for improving the quality ofeducation at Georgia Tech through pedagogical and curricularinnovation. By restructuring ESL reading and writing curriculumat the advanced levels, the trio was able to enhance learnersreading comprehension, critical-thinking skills, and academicwriting abilities. Reading and writing courses, previously taughtseparately, were combined under the new curriculum. Thisgives students preparing to seek admission to U.S. universitiesthe opportunity to develop more advanced academic skills bysimulating the standard American task sequence of reading-discussion-writing. This innovative curricular change hasfar-reaching implications for English as a second languageinstruction, and the Language Institute is setting the standardfor the global learner.

466,203

28 Georgia Tech Massive OpenOnline Courses have enteredthe pipeline since July 2012,

with a combined enrollment of

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Understanding Market NeedsResearch is one of the underpinnings for establishingsuccessful, sustainable programs. As a result of becomingan academic division of Georgia Tech, Professional Educationhas increased research spending over the last two years totransform and diversify its portfolio of offeringsincludingprofessional masters degrees and other areas of study.Intense, front-end research efforts for new courses anddegrees help us make crucial data-driven decisions aboutwhat will work and what wont. By investing up front,Georgia Tech Professional Education can better navigatethe current educational landscape and proactively anticipateneeds with market-dictated degrees and courses. Morethan 30 extensive market research surveys and focusgroups have been completed in the last year and studiesare currently underway on additional professional mastersdegrees and program offerings in subjects as diverse assustainable electrical energy, embedded software, enterprisetransformation, and mobile robotics.

96 % of students surveyed

in 2013 said they werelikely or very likely torecommend the coursethey took to a colleague.

OurPrograms

Work:

InstructorEffectiveness:

2 0 1 1

8 . 9

2 0 1 3

9 . 3

(Instructorsrated on a

10 pt. scale)

Graduate Degrees Go MassiveIn partnership with the College of Computing, Georgia Tech ProfessionalEducation is helping facilitate the very rst massive online Master ofScience in Computer Science (OMS CS) with impressively low tuition. Inaddition, were breaking new ground in public/private partnerships withonline platform provider Udacity in-residence for the next year. As theonly degree program like it in the world, Professional Education hopesthe OMS CS will lead to more consistent engagement between onlinestudents and high-quality content, with measurable results. For our adult

learners, this means the opportunity to engage with one of the top-rankedprograms in the world, with the exibility to continue a career withoutinterruption. In a 2013 Professional Education survey of potential students,94 percent indicated they would work while enrolled in the program, and72 percent indicated they would pay for the program themselves. Thisbreakthrough, affordable mode of learning presents a more scalablesolution that dramatically expands access to higher education.

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All of these incredible achievements have beenmade possible by one of the most dedicated teamsin the business. Together, we are agile innovatorsand great thinkers. Im proud of the impact andvalue our people contribute to Georgia Tech andProfessional Education. This piece represents just asmall sample of the ne work they do every day.

Im excited about what the future holds for Georgia

Tech Professional Education. Thank you for being apart of this journey with us.

Nelson C. Baker, Ph.D. Dean, Professional EducationGeorgia Institute of Technology

As the accomplishments on

these pages will attest, Georgia

Tech Professional Educations

intent is to be a strategic leader

in professional education.

It is our mission to educate the workforceto be pioneers of industry, government andcommunity; utilize the resources of a researchuniversity to support economic prosperity throughcommercialization and innovation; and advanceknowledge through research and discovery.

Employer and employee needs are changing,and state and national economic competitiveness

relies on an educated workforce. With more than100 years of experience in educating workingadults, we have proven prociency in generatingprograms that create impact. Weve placed greatemphasis on research to inform our decisions andit has heightened our sensitivity to market needs.Professional Education is also deeply connected toa global audience. Last year, our programs touchedstudents from 111 countries more than half theworlds nations.

In addition, the educational landscape is changingrapidly. Were making investments to keep pacewith that change through innovative programs,revolutionary delivery methods and thoughtfulinstructional design. Because the majority ofour students are balancing careers, family, andschool, its even more important for us to focus onconnective technology to deliver content and transferknowledge in meaningful ways.


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Georgia Tech ProfessionalEducation is an academicdivision of the Georgia

Institute of Technology,offering professionalmasters degrees, shortcourses, and certificateprograms to meetthe needs of workingprofessionals and industry

partners.During 2013, Professional Educationprograms served individuals representingmore than 3,000 companies and had anenrollment of nearly 26,000, ranging inage from 13 to 91.

In the last year, Professional Educationoffered courses in six countries at 92 sitesin 68 cities, including 25 states within theU.S. Additionally, we offer 30 programs

through which participants can earn aprofessional certicate by taking severalshort courses within a sequence.

84 5th Street NW, Atlanta GA 30308

www.gtpe.gatech.edu

Public Courses: 8,632Sponsored Courses: 4,592Conferences: 1,610Professional Masters: 284High School Calculus: 624Community Outreach Programs (SAV): 350Online Masters Degrees: 1,358Language Institute:7,939

Non-creditCourses

341

215Public

126Contract

25,389

TotalEnrollment

$11,474,114

$6,773,507

$ 4,129,376

$ 400,000

Development Funds Institute Overhead

Instructional Fees

Revenue Share

DollarsReturnedto Units

$171,231

$2 M increasein funds

returned tothe Institute

over FY12

2013 in Focus

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