New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem
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Scholarship Reconsidered (Boyer) !• Discovery—new knowledge!• Integration—synthesis !• Application—applying disciplinary expertise!• Teaching & Learning (SoTL)!
Ages of Faculty Development!• Age of the Scholar (1950’s-60’s)!• Age of the Teacher (1960’s-70’s)!• Age of the Developer (1980’s)!• Age of the Learner (1990’s)!• Age of the Network (2000’s)!!From Sorcinelli, et al. (2006). Creating the Future of Faculty
Development: Learning From the Past, Understanding the Present. Bolton, Mass: Jossey-Bass, chapter 1.!
Future Priorities Faculty Development!
• Balancing multiple roles!• Changing faculty roles!• Student-centered teaching!
Emerging Digital Ecosystem!• Networked, participatory!• Data-driven, algorithmic!• Change driven by globalization and technology!• Requires agency (cf. GEMs)!
Designer!• Individual: student-centered, active learning
environments!– POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning!
• Department: integrated, scaffolded curriculum!• Institution: learning ecosystem!
Technologist!• Individual: Dancing with robots!– Digital Productivity & Pedagogy!
• Profhacker: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ !
• Learning analytics !
Collaborator!• Individual: Team-teaching!• Department: Integrative Learning!• Institution: Transfer Pathways!
Collaboration Strategies!• Networking!• Coordinating!• Cooperating!• Collaborating!• Integration!
From NITLE Collaboration Toolkit!
Coordination!• Exchanging
information!• Altering program
activities !• For mutual benefit
and to achieve a common purpose.!
Cooperation !• Exchanging
information!• Altering program
activities !• Sharing resources!• For mutual benefit
and to achieve a common purpose.!
Collaboration!• Exchanging
information!• Altering program
activities !• Sharing resources!• Enhancing capacity
for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose.!
Integration!• Completely merging
two organizations in regards to client operations as well as administrative structure. !
Collaboration Case Study Global Team Teaching!
• Find the Right Partners!– Shared challenges and goals!– Complementary expertise!– Individual level!– Institutional level!– Technology expertise!
Process for Developing Collaboration!
• Choosing proper content!
• Exploring institutional context!
• Finding & getting to know partners by communicating and comparing!
• Calendars & Time Zones!
• Academic standards!• Language ability!• Technology &
instructional design support!
• Content to be covered!• Assessment!
• Mentor & Model!• Designer!• Technologist!• Collaborator!• Networker !• Experimenter!
• Challenges?!• What fits? What’s
new?!• Strategies or
structures to support!– Individual!– Department!– Institution!
Design a strategy or structure to support this role!