The document discusses changing roles for faculty in higher education. It notes predictions that lecture halls will disappear and the role of professors will transform with the rise of technology and new learning models. Interviews with faculty found they are adapting through pedagogical transformation, developing personal learning networks, shifting identities to embrace technology, and finding new ways to connect with students through technology. The document concludes more research is needed to understand how faculty can remain central in a more project-focused and technology-driven future for higher education.

1. Conflicted Identities:
Reconsidering the Roles
of Faculty
http://tiny.cc/facultyroles

2. Michelle
Pacansky-Brock
@brocansky
Teaching and Learning Innovations @CI
TLInnovations.cikeys.com
Jill
Leafstedt
@jleafstedt
Jaimie
Hoffman
@JaimieLHoffman

3. Activity #1
What is your interest in the changing role
of faculty?
http://tiny.cc/identities
Activity #1
Activity #1
What is your interest in the changing
role of faculty?
http://tiny.cc/identities
photo by Lukas Kastner CC-BY

4. Background
Why do we care about changing faculty role?

5. ““Lecture halls will disappear, the role of the
professor will transform, and technology will
help make a college education much more
attainable than it is today, and much more
valuable. Indeed, a number of institutions may
shut down.”
-Hullinger, Fast Company, 2015

6. “The explosion of all the different things that
aren’t universities, their presence in the
learning ecosystem, will force and allow
universities to recenter themselves around
the kind of learning that can’t take place in
other kinds of settings.
-Randall Bass, Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English

7. “It is not a faculty-less world, but I think that
one struggle of the next 20 years is figuring
out what it looks like to have a highly trained
PhD-ed faculy that is still central to this
recentered, more project-focused world.
--Randall Bass, Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English

8. How are faculty adapting
and changing in the
digital/connected age?
Guiding Question

9. Methods
how - who - what

10. What

11. Data Collection

12. Data Collection

14. What did we
learn?

15. Digital Identity Transformation of
Pedagogy
add
bullet
points Pedag
1.
Pedagogical
Transformation
(n=16)
2.
Personal
Learning
Networks
(n=10)
3.
Identity
(n=18)
4.
Student
Contact
(n=18)
4 Major Themes

16. content/
resources
shift in
methodology
interdependence
1.Pedagogical Transformation

17. 1.Pedagogical Transformation

18. 2. Personal Learning Networks
continuous, informal
learning with
interdisciplinary peers
virtual
extension of
formal
connections
formal: on-
campus/
conferences

19. 2. Personal Learning Networks

20. No Impact
Cool Factor
“I’m cutting
edge”
Interdependence
3. Identity

21. 3.
Identity
“Technology
has given me
my identity. “
-Lori

22. Challenges
Extending the
Classroom
Improved
Community
Response
Time
4. Student Contact

23. 4. Student Contact

24. Digital Identity Transformation of
Pedagogy
add
bullet
points Pedag
1.
Pedagogical
Transformation
(n=16)
2.
Personal
Learning
Networks
(n=10)
3.
Identity
(n=18)
4.
Student
Contact
(n=18)
4 Major Themes

25. What are your conclusions after hearing
about this data?
What follow up research questions do
you want to see answered about faculty
roles?
http://tiny.cc/identities
Idea Sharing

26. Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find us at:
@brocansky
@jleafstedt

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