New Faculty Roles in the
Emerging Digital Ecosystem !
Rebecca Frost Davis, July 16, 2015!
Unscripted Problem:

What are new faculty
roles and how do we
support them?!
What are the old roles?!
Evaluation!
•  Scholarship!
•  Teaching!
•  Service!
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)!
Content	
  
Expert	
  
Master	
  
Learner	
  
What new roles have you
seen at the institute?!
Designer.!
Designer!
•  Individual: student-centered, active learning
environments!
–  POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning!
•  Department: integrated, scaffolded curriculum!
•  Institution: learning ecosystem!
Technologist.!
Technologist!
•  Individual: Dancing with robots!
–  Digital Productivity & Pedagogy!
•  Profhacker: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ !
•  Learning analytics !
From Campus Technology!
Collaborator.!
Collaborator!
•  Individual: Team-teaching!
•  Department: Integrative Learning!
•  Institution: Transfer Pathways!
Collaboration Strategies!
•  Networking!
•  Coordinating!
•  Cooperating!
•  Collaborating!
•  Integration!
From NITLE Collaboration Toolkit!
Networking!
•  Exchanging
information!
•  For mutual benefit!
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!
Networker!
Global Networks!
Experimenter.!
•  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!
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!

New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem