Becoming an Educational Change Agent www.fieldstonealliance.org/client/client_images/cartoon-change_agent.jpg By Josh Kim, Dartmouth College Blended Librarian Webcast on Thursday, May 21, 2009 @ 3pm Eastern by LearningTimes

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Polling Question: Do you consider yourself an educational change agent?: Yes No I wish Don’t believe in the concept

Polling Question:

Do you consider yourself an educational change agent?:

Yes

No

I wish

Don’t believe in the concept

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcazadi/2388418126/ Conversation

Barbara Knauff [email_address] Education: PhD in French Literature Yale University Background: Senior Learning Technologist: Dartmouth Adjunct Faculty Member : Dartmouth Faculty: St. Mary's College of Maryland

Joshua Kim [email_address] Education: PhD in Sociology (Demography) Brown University Background: Senior Learning Technologist: Dartmouth Part-Time Faculty: Dartmouth & Quinnipiac: Program Manager: Quinnipiac University Online Producer: Britannica.com Faculty: WVU

My first exposure to educational technology http://www.flickr.com/photos/draggin/15223525/sizes/o/

Polling Question: Best describes your job title: Academic Librarian Educational Technologist Instructor Other

Polling Question:

Best describes your job title:

Academic Librarian

Educational Technologist

Instructor

Other

Polling Question: How long have you you worked in academe? 0 to 3 years 4 to 7 years 8 to 14 years 15 years +

Polling Question:

How long have you you worked in academe?

0 to 3 years

4 to 7 years

8 to 14 years

15 years +

Polling Question: How long have you had your current job title?: 0 to 3 years 4 to 7 years 8 or more years

Polling Question:

How long have you had your current job title?:

0 to 3 years

4 to 7 years

8 or more years

Status Quo http://www.flickr.com/photos/scoot/112670340/sizes/o/

Status Quo http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/other/images/Leidy_class-a.jpg 1888

change: from lecture to seminar http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/147_harkness.aspx

Change: research based approach (how people learn) http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9457&page=18 How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice National Academies Press; June 2000)

Change: recognizing multiple intelligences http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/5970302/sizes/o/

Change: The brain and how the mind works http://nehatiwari.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diagram_brain_cortex.jpg

Active Learning

Learner Centric Courses

Social Learning

Students as Knowledge Producers

Information Abundance

Communication and Collaboration

Constructivism

Change Agents

Change Agents Change agents are marginalized Change agents exist between cultures Change agents are not fully part of the cultures they work in

Change agents are marginalized

Change agents exist between cultures

Change agents are not fully part of the

cultures they work in

Between Two Cultures http://www.flickr.com/photos/alghani/2738800836/sizes/m/ Computing Faculty Professor Charles Francis Xavier

Question: How has the role of instructional technologist evolved over the past decade, and where is the job going?

Evolution of Our Jobs http://www.walksf.org/segways/segwayEvolutionByMackay.jpg

Question: How much of our work is reactive, and how much of is advocacy for changes in instructional paradigms?

Polling Question: Is an aspect of your work trying to move towards a more proactive stance with faculty colleagues as well? Yes No Not Sure

Polling Question:

Is an aspect of your work trying to move towards a more proactive stance with faculty colleagues as well?

Yes

No

Not Sure

Polling Question: Would you characterize efforts to move to a more proactive relationship with faculty/instructor colleagues as successful? Yes No Not Sure

Polling Question:

Would you characterize efforts to move to a more proactive relationship with faculty/instructor colleagues as successful?

Yes

No

Not Sure

Question: How are the roles between instructional designers and librarians demarcated, and where are they beginning to shift or merge?

Polling Question: Do you regularly work with learning technologists in your current role? Yes No Does not apply

Polling Question:

Do you regularly work with learning technologists in your current role?

Yes

No

Does not apply

Polling Question: Did the title of the position you are in now exist 5 years ago?: Yes No Not Sure

Polling Question:

Did the title of the position you are in now exist 5 years ago?:

Yes

No

Not Sure

Polling Question: The tasks that you spend your time on now are: Totally different from when I started this position Have remained fairly constant I’m too new in my position to judge.

Polling Question:

The tasks that you spend your time on now are:

Totally different from when I started this position

Have remained fairly constant

I’m too new in my position to judge.

Challenge: Communicating what a learning technologist does. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/04/communication2.jpg

Challenge: Claiming the role of colleague with faculty as opposed to support staff.

Polling Question: Who would you characterize as your main clients – the people you work mostly with in your position? Faculty Students About equal faculty and students Other

Polling Question:

Who would you characterize as your main clients – the people you work mostly with in your position?

Faculty

Students

About equal faculty and students

Other

Polling Question: Does your work involve significant interaction with a course management system such as Blackboard? Yes No Not applicable

Polling Question:

Does your work involve significant interaction with a course management system such as Blackboard?

Yes

No

Not applicable

Polling Question: In two sentences or less explain what a learning technologist does.

Polling Question: Do you feel like you have the opportunity to play a significant role in the strategic direction of your campus? Yes No Not sure

Polling Question:

Do you feel like you have the opportunity to play a significant role in the strategic direction of your campus?

Yes

No

Not sure

Polling Question: Are learning technologist treated as colleagues by faculty at your institution? Yes No Depends on the Learning Technologist

Polling Question:

Are learning technologist treated as colleagues by faculty at your institution?

Yes

No

Depends on the Learning Technologist

Challenge: Getting a seat at the strategic table.

Challenge: Finding the right nudges to encourage instructors to partner with us in the course design and development process.

Discussion Question: What aspect(s) of the status quo are you trying to change in your institution?

Discussion Question: What do you see as the obstacles for catalyzing change?

Discussion Question: What are some effective strategies that you have employed to bring about change? Can you give specific examples?