Generation NeXt Faculty

1. Generation NeXt Faculty RU1? Dale Fowler Ed.D, MBA, BA Lead Instructional Designer Center for Distributed Learning Indiana Wesleyan University

4. A.I.C.B.E. Participating U.S. Schools • Indiana Wesleyan University • LeTourneau University • Seattle Pacific University

5. A.I.C.B.E. Participating International Universities • Daystar UniversityNairobi, Kenya • Emmanuel UniversityOradea, Romania • Kazak-American Free UniversityUst-Komenogorsk, Kazakhstan • Lithuania Christian CollegeKlaipeda, Lithuania

6. ISC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF CHINA • Chengdu • Qingdao • Shenyag • Tianjin • Wuhan • Beijing

7. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Systems Analyst • Communications Expert (4 Generations) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Collaborative Partner

8. Clark Kerr et. al. “Industrialism & Industrial Man” (1960) Systems Analyst • The world is entering a new age – the age of total industrialization. (p.1) • The work force is confronted with repeated object lessons of the general futility of fighting these changes, and comes to be reconciled, by and large, to repeated changes in the ways of earning a living. (p.16) 1911 - 2003

9. Clark Kerr et. al.“Industrialism & Industrial Man” (1960) Systems Analyst Education: • The Handmaiden of Industrialism (p.18) • The technological revolution requires more management, not less. (p. 115) • In the more advanced stages of industrialization, all workers have considerable formal education. (p. 151) • Education becomes a leading activity in society. (p. 230) 1911 - 2003

10. Clark Kerr et. al.“Industrialism & Industrial Man” (1960) Systems Analyst • The Web of Rules: • Uniting the state, the enterprise, and the association will be a great web of rules set by the efforts of all the elements, but particularly by the state.

11. Clark Kerr et. al.“Industrialism & Industrial Man” (1960)Systems Analyst • The battles will be in the corridors instead of in the streets, and memos will flow instead of blood. (p. 235). • The occupational interest group will represent the employee in his occupational concerns and the occupation will draw his allegiance. (p. 236)

12. 21st Century Faculty align themselves with organizations positioned to prosper in the rising global environment described by Clark Kerr et.al. by embracing change and resisting the pejorative use of the web of rules – not the other way around.

13. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Organizational Diagnostician • Communications Expert (4 Generations) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Collaborative Partner

14. RISING EXPECTATIONS Students who changed approach to learning because of Web - by Generation 51% 37% Percent 23% Boomer n=328 Generation-X n=815 Millennial n=346

15. Communication ExpertGeneration NeXt – Mind Set 21 Traits • Consumer oriented – Entertainment oriented – Entitlement – Negotiation – Value free – Instant Gratification – Short Event Horizon – Adaptability and pragmatism – excellence – Self-interested – Skepticism – Cynicism – Safety Issues – Stressed – Civility and caring issues – Intellectually Disengaged – Reduced Self-Efficacy – Selective risk taking – Relationships – Parent Issues – Diversity issues – Technoliterte 20 Suggestions • Establish clear expectations, and communicate these expectations early and often – Be consistent – Articulate all desired outcomes – Develop meaningful citizenship and character development goals and activities – Stress the role of the scientific method in understanding, as well as the potential abuses of science and data – Move to a learning-centered academic paradigm – Use active and creative methods to facilitate significant learning experiences – Teach “up” educational taxonomies – provide meaningful through real-life application – Avoid the expectation of blind acceptance of academic authority – Maintain technological sophistication – Expand the parameters for class projects from the traditional paper to other types of demonstrations of research and learning – Expand the parameters of class projects form the traditional paper to other types of demonstrations of research and learning – Offer many opportunities for interpersonal involvement – Appreciate diverse viewpoints – Increase flexibility in course schedules, semesters, and in entry and exit – recognize trust and safety issues – Moderate a customer-based service model – Develop student services and programming based on institutional and student needs – Lighten up – Expect their best. Generation Next: Today’s Postmodern Student: Meeting, Teaching and Serving Mark L. Taylor, Director of Guidance Services, Arkansas State University-Beebe @ The Higher Learning Commission, NCA A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement, 2005 Volume 2, pg. 99

16. Communication ExpertGeneration NeXt – Mind Set • TWO TRAITS: • Intentional Academic Ignorance of an Entire Field of Knowledge. • Identity Politics. The Perils of Academic Ignorance Lennard J. Davis Professor of English & Medical Education University of Illinois at Chicago The Chronicle Review May 20, 2005, pg. B13

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19. From Bio To BlogA Relationship Management Tool "...if we want to grow as teachers---we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives---risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract" The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer, p. 12.

22. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Organizational Diagnostician • Communications Expert (4 Generations) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Collaborative Partner

23. Instructional TechnologistKnows how to useTechnology • 1980’s • Hardware • Applications • 1990’s • Internet Tools • LMS • 2000’s • Maintenance Issues • Proprietary Applications

24. Instructional Technologist • Video Clips – Cheesy –r- Best (authentic) • Learning Objects – This better be good! • Screen Captures – The Online “How To” • Simulations – The way it will be – fidelity! • Pod casts – The Return of the Lecture • Blogs – A Relationship Management Tool • PVPs – A Constructivist Learning System • WIKI – World Wide Collaboration • RSS – The end of Surfing

25. Instructional Technologist Progress This Century Death by PowerPoint Last Century Death by Lecture

26. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Systems Analyst • Communications Expert (4 Generations) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Collaborative Partner

27. Instructional DesignerHow to Best Utilize in Education Curriculum Content Humanizing Communication Instructional Technology

28. Instructional DesignerThe Sloan Five Pillarsof Effective Online Education • Student Satisfaction • Access • Learning Effectiveness • Faculty Satisfaction • Institutional Cost Effectiveness

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36. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Organizational Diagnostician • Communications Expert (4 Generations) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Collaborative Partner

45. Generation NeXt FacultyConvergent Skill Set • Academic Content Expert • Organizational Diagnostician • Instructional Designer (Effectiveness) • Instructional Technologist (Efficiency) • Communications Expert (4 Generations)

46. How to Reach Me Dale Fowler Ed.D, MBA, BA Lead Instructional Designer Indiana Wesleyan University Phone: 765-677-2953 Email: dale.fowler@indwes.edu Blog: www.dpfowler.typepad.com