New Faculty Roles in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem

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!