21 st Century Faculty

1. 21st Century Faculty √Meeting Learner Needs√Ensuring Institutional Relevance 21st Century Institutions

2. The Sloan ConsortiumFive Pillarsof Effective Online Education • Student Satisfaction • Learning Effectiveness • Access • Faculty Satisfaction • Institutional Cost Effectiveness

3. WebCT User’s Conference Track • Empowering educators: Professional development models and methods • One of the biggest challenges that institutions face is determining methods for educating faculty (academic staff) in order to take advantage of new e-learning opportunities.

4. 21st Century Faculty Skill SetBeyond Content Expert • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Collaborator • Authentic Person

5. Matures (prior to 1946) Dedicated to a job they take on Respectful of authority Place duty before pleasure Baby boomers (1946-1964) Live to work Generally optimistic Influence on policy & products Communication Expert • Generation X (1965-1980) • Work to live • Clear & consistent expectations • Value contributing to the whole • Millennials (1981-1994) • Live in the moment • Expect immediacy of technology • Earn money for immediate consumption

6. Communication Expert 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Communication ExpertWhat Some Companies Have Done

10. Communication ExpertWhat Some Companies Have Done

11. Communication ExpertWhat One College Has Done

12. 21st Century Faculty as:An Authentic PersonFrom Bio to Blog

13. 21st Century Faculty Skill Set • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Authentic Person

14. 21 Century Faculty as: Instructional Technologist Progress This Century Death by PowerPoint Last Century Death by Lecture

15. 21st Century Faculty as: Instructional Technologist • Video Clips – Authenticity over professional • 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 Tool • WIKI – World Wide Collaboration • RSS – The end of Surfing

16. 21st Century Faculty Skill SetBeyond Content Expert • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Collaborator • Authentic Person

18. President Adjunct Faculty

19. 21st Century Faculty Skill SetBeyond Content Expert • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Collaborator • Authentic Person

20. To Teach One Class • 1970’s - Accounting Content • 1980’s - Computer & Accounting Applications • 1990’s - Online LMS • 2000’s – • Web Based Assignment Manager • Video • Pod casting • Blogging • RSS • AI • Simulations • WIKI • Enabling Applications • Security

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

28. 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

39. Beyond Content Expert

40. 21st Century Faculty Skill SetBeyond Content Expert • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Collaborator • Authentic Person

48. 21st Century Faculty Skill SetBeyond Content Expert • Communication Expert • Instructional Technologist • Instructional Designer • Facilitator • Collaborator • Authentic Person

49. 21st Century Faculty as:An Authentic PersonFrom Bio to Blog

50. Implications for Institutions • Capitalization of Initiatives • Flexibility of System Components • Increased Faculty Compensation • Technology Maintenance & Upgrade