Registration is now open for our Lifetime Learning Symposium, held October 6-8, 2025.
The Symposium offers a unique opportunity for candid and meaningful conversations with educators and technologists from institutions across the higher education landscape.
Attendees will explore best practices and research that enable institutions to facilitate lifetime learning by creating, growing, and sustaining a variety of affordable programs, including at-scale degree or non-credit programs, alternative credentials, and the value proposition associated with lifetime learning programs. We will also consider access to quality, impactful learning across the entire arc of one’s lifetime.
Inaugural dean to present keynote address
We are excited to share that William "Bill" Gaudelli, Ed.D., the College of Lifetime Learning's inaugural dean, will serve as the keynote speaker for the this year's symposium.
Gaudelli’s presentation will explore the emergence of lifetime learning as a strategic, interdisciplinary field — a field Georgia Tech is uniquely poised to lead — as we focus on the best practices and research that enable institutions to facilitate lifetime learning, and the value proposition associated with lifetime learning programs.
In addition to Gaudelli's keynote, this year’s event reflects the full arc of learner needs from kindergarten through post-retirement, and is structured around four tracks that attendees can explore:
- The value proposition of lifetime learning: Focusing on return on investment, how programmatic outcomes are measured, and what their impacts are on institutions and society
- Affordable at-scale programs: Establishing sustainable at-scale programs through the use of technology to reach large student populations
- Alternative credentials: Exploring the challenges and opportunities in credentialing while accounting for widely dispersed, non-traditional learning, as well as nonlinear learning within traditional institutions
- Research in impactful online programs: Codifying and testing our understanding through experimentation, including how we maximize the benefits of a connected learning ecosystem that focuses less on broadcasting knowledge and more on how it is received and incorporated into learners’ lives
Symposium Schedule
Monday, Oct. 6
On-site Check-in | 2 – 3 p.m.
Welcome and Keynote | 3 – 4 p.m.
Symposium Sessions | 4 – 6 p.m.
Reception | 6 – 8 p.m.
Tuesday, October 7
Breakfast | 8 – 8:45 a.m.
Symposium Sessions | 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch | 12:30 – 1:15 p.m.
Symposium Sessions | 1:15 – 5:45 p.m.
Dinner | 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 8
Breakfast | 8 – 8:45 a.m.
Symposium Sessions | 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Closing and Lunch | 12:30 p.m.
Symposium Location
The symposium will be held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Midtown Atlanta in the heart of Tech Square — Atlanta's thriving innovation community, which is easily accessible from Interstates 75/85 and just 15 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Attached to the Center is The Tech Square parking deck that offers convenient hourly and daily rates. Get Directions and View Local Accommodations
Register Now for the Symposium
Early Bird Registration for the Lifetime Learning Symposium is now live and will run from July 16 – Sept.15, 2025.
Register now and take advantage of a $50 discount for full, three-day attendance!
This year we are also offering one-day registration options for those interested.