Multiple Open Rank Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Lifetime Learning Systems, Learning Sciences and AI in Education

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Techs faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nations top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Techs Mission and Values

Georgia Techs mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The College of Lifetime Learning (https://cll.gatech.edu/) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for open rank, tenure-track, and tenured faculty positions in Lifetime Learning Systems, Learning Sciences, and AI in Education. Lifetime Learning Systems are optimized environments that are effective, highly interactive, relevant to real-world contexts and support learning across the arc of ones life. This includes the design, study, and transformation of learning systems and ecosystems spanning schools, universities, workplaces, and beyond. This search directly supports CLLs Strategy 2035 goals to catalyze a learning society, empower communities through limitless learning, engage millions of learners across lifespans, lead the world in learning systems research, and build a learner-first college for continuous adaptation.

The College of Lifetime Learning prioritizes scholars who bridge learning sciences, AI and technology, systems thinking, and real-world implementation. We are particularly interested in candidates who move between theory, design, and evidence, and who translate research into scalable programs, tools, or partnerships in one or more of the following areas or in intersections of these areas:

• Learning Sciences
• cognitive, developmental, motivational aspects across the lifespan
• Learning Technologies
• AI, analytics, simulation, technology-enhanced learning
• Educational Systems, Business Models, and Policy
• leadership, organizational learning, scalable models of lifelong learning

This opportunity is part of a cluster hire that is focused on lifetime learning systems. Applicants will be considered at all ranks. Any of the research and educational areas should enable one to contribute to the innovative re-envisioning of higher education through credit-bearing courses, degrees, professional and continuing education offerings as well as knowledge in effective early learning (K-12) methods. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students.

Responsibilities

The College seeks individuals with outstanding potential for research achievement, and a strong aptitude and interest in undergraduate and graduate teaching, as well as interest and experience in translating curricula innovations into programs of study for both credit, and professional, and/executive programs.

Applicants should have earned a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. Candidates will be considered at the ranks of Assistant and Associate Professor. Exceptional candidates will also be considered at the rank of full Professor.

• Research: Conduct cutting-edge research in learning systems. Secure external funding through grants and partnerships. Publish in high-impact journals and present at leading conferences.
• Teaching: Develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in areas such as learning sciences, learning technologies, AI in education, learning analytics, instructional design, learning systems, workforce learning, and lifetime learning.
• Service: Contribute to the governance and community engagement activities of the College of Lifetime Learning and Georgia Tech. Participate in departmental, college, and university committees. Provide leadership in advancing the field of learning sciences and learning analytics.
• Student Success: Candidates are also expected to meet student success criteria. Such criteria include the ability to promote a welcoming educational/work environment, the ability to mentor and assist students interested in pursuing graduate education and the ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students.

Required Qualifications

A Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in learning sciences, learning analytics, educational psychology, educational technology, computer science, educational policy and leadership, instructional design, or another learning systems related field.

More information on the evaluation of faculty members as teachers and educators, and on expectations for promotion and tenure evaluation are available online in the GT Faculty Handbook in section 3.3.4 here.

Preferred Qualifications

For the ranks of Associate and Full Professorship, there will be further expectations of:

• A demonstrated record of research excellence with a focus on learning sciences, AI in education, learning technologies, learning analytics, learning systems, or related areas.
• Experience in teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Evidence of securing external research funding.

Student Success Criteria

• The ability to teach and mentor students from diverse backgrounds and learning pathways.
• The ability to mentor and assist students interested in pursuing graduate education.
• The ability to design and teach curricula that are responsive to students from diverse backgrounds and learning pathways.
• The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students.
• The ability to engage in high-impact practices that support deep learning for student success.

Contact Information

Requests for information may be directed to Office of the Dean at dean@lifetimelearning.gatech.edu.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individuals race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Background Check

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit: https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest

Special Applicant Instructions

Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, a description of teaching interests as well as their advising/mentoring philosophy, and the names and contact information for at least three references. Application materials should be submitted as .PDF files via https://hr.gatech.edu/careers.

Applications must be submitted by October 30, 2026, to receive full consideration. The search will continue until the positions are filled.