New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem
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This document discusses new faculty roles that are emerging in the digital ecosystem. It identifies roles such as designer, technologist, collaborator, and experimenter. A designer role focuses on creating student-centered active learning environments both for individual courses and across departments and institutions. A technologist role involves using digital tools and learning analytics to enhance teaching. A collaborator role includes team-teaching and facilitating integrative and transfer learning. A networker role focuses on building global education networks. An experimenter role is about mentoring, designing new approaches, and testing new strategies to support faculty in balancing and evolving their roles in the digital age.
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New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem
- 1. New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem ! Rebecca Frost Davis, July 16, 2015!
- 2. Unscripted Problem: What are new faculty roles and how do we support them?!
- 3. What are the old roles?!
- 4. Evaluation! • Scholarship! • Teaching! • Service!
- 5. Scholarship Reconsidered (Boyer) ! • Discovery—new knowledge! • Integration—synthesis ! • Application—applying disciplinary expertise! • Teaching & Learning (SoTL)!
- 6. 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.!
- 7. Future Priorities Faculty Development! • Balancing multiple roles! • Changing faculty roles! • Student-centered teaching!
- 8. Emerging Digital Ecosystem! • Networked, participatory! • Data-driven, algorithmic! • Change driven by globalization and technology! • Requires agency (cf. GEMs)!
- 10. Content Expert Master Learner
- 11. What new roles have you seen at the institute?!
- 12. Designer.!
- 13. Designer! • Individual: student-centered, active learning environments! – POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning! • Department: integrated, scaffolded curriculum! • Institution: learning ecosystem!
- 14. Technologist.!
- 15. Technologist! • Individual: Dancing with robots! – Digital Productivity & Pedagogy! • Profhacker: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ ! • Learning analytics !
- 17. Collaborator.!
- 18. Collaborator! • Individual: Team-teaching! • Department: Integrative Learning! • Institution: Transfer Pathways!
- 19. Collaboration Strategies! • Networking! • Coordinating! • Cooperating! • Collaborating! • Integration! From NITLE Collaboration Toolkit!
- 20. Networking! • Exchanging information! • For mutual benefit!
- 21. Coordination! • Exchanging information! • Altering program activities ! • For mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose.!
- 22. Cooperation ! • Exchanging information! • Altering program activities ! • Sharing resources! • For mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose.!
- 23. Collaboration! • Exchanging information! • Altering program activities ! • Sharing resources! • Enhancing capacity for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose.!
- 24. Integration! • Completely merging two organizations in regards to client operations as well as administrative structure. !
- 25. Collaboration Case Study Global Team Teaching! • Find the Right Partners! – Shared challenges and goals! – Complementary expertise! – Individual level! – Institutional level! – Technology expertise!
- 26. 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!
- 27. Networker!
- 28. Global Networks!
- 30. Experimenter.!
- 32. • 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!
- 33. Thank you! St. Edward’s University! Thank you.! St. Edward’s University! Thank you.! St. Edward’s University! Thank you.! St. Edward’s University! Thank you.! St. Edward’s University!