Are You Ready to Flip

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Are You Ready to Flip? Responding to Deep Faculty Challenges

in an Era of MOOCs & Pervasive Online Expertise

Dave Goldberg

Big Beacon deg@bigbeacon.org

Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory www.illigal.org

Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education www.ifoundry.illinois.edu

31 December 2010

Anything But Engineers

www.threejoy.com

www.bigbeacon.org

Universities & professors date back to 11th century.

Founded1088

Prompt: Traditionally, a professor is someone who…

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3 theses

1. Faculty expertise in class and research is being challenged.

2. Change driver is reduction in information asymmetry.

3. Challenges require a deeper approach to faculty development.

1.  Faculty expertise in class and lab is being challenged. 2.  Change driver is reduction in information asymmetry. 3.  Challenges require deeper approach to faculty development.

Challenges in teaching

Massive open online courses

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Challenges in research

Meet Jack Andraka

Post WW2 professor was

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Pancreatic cancer

Mid 20th Century

168 times faster 26,000 times less expensive,

400 times more sensitive, 5 minutes to run

What did he need from the professor?

Lab space

Not isolated. Younger researchers, younger entrepreneurs, more kids skipping university.

1.  Faculty expertise in class and lab is being challenged. 2.  Change driver is reduction in information asymmetry. 3.  Changes require deeper approach to faculty development.

Organizations • large, • vertically integrated, • dominated by economies of scale.

Information • di!cult to access, • expensive, • sequestered.

3 missed revolutions

1.  Quality revolution 2.  Entrepreneurial revolution 3.  IT revolution

Many organizations • Smaller, leaner, • Stick to core competence, • Dominated by transaction costs.

Some organizations get big, but not all.

WW2 Informa+on Crea+ve Era Informa+on

Hard to access Easy to access

Expensive Free or cheap

Sequestered Widely shared

Information asymmetry reduced.

Returns to expertise reduced.

Witnessing: 10 century consensus of professor’s role undermined.

Centrality of expertise diminished

If profs no longer valued primarily for expertise, what then?

The current revolution isn’t about teaching.

Idea of university as assembly of experts is being challenged.

What is an expert?

“I know.”

What is a university?

“I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.”

”No, I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.” “No, I know.” “No, I know.”

“No, I know.”

How do we balance our portfolio?

“I know”

What is the opposite of expertise?

Story: Learning to be a coach

Rewind to September 2010

Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program

The Morning: 18 March 2011

Breakthrough

“I know””I trust”

“I know”

“I trust”

“We trust” “We trust.”

“We trust”

“We trust.”

“We trust.” “We trust.”

“We trust.” “We trust.” “We Trust.”

“We trust.”

Unleash students

“I believe””I have courage””I act”

All authentic 21st century learning has this unleashing.

Obedient students Courageous learners

Deep faculty development (DFD)

How do we move from “I know” “I trust?"

Coaching as a technology of trust.

Modern coaching amalgam of speech acts, continental philosophy,

positive psych, mindfulness brain science & other influences.

Fernando Flores, Management and Communication in

the O!ce of the Future, 1982

John Searle Speech Acts, 1969

Hubert Dreyfus, Heidegger scholar

Ways to learn/do more?

Read/share the manifesto: www.bigbeacon.org

www.bigbeacon.org

Attend Change that Sticks Workshop in June: www.olin.edu/collaborate

www.olin.edu

Hire (&/or become) a coach: www.threejoy.com

www.threejoy.com

Buy & read the book (coming July 2014): www.bigbeacon.org/book

www.bigbeacon.org/book

Final Title: A Whole New Engineer: A Surprising Emotional Journey

1-3 Takeaways

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Questions?

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Are You Ready to Flip? Responding to Deep Faculty Challenges

in an Era of MOOCs & Pervasive Online Expertise

Dave Goldberg

Big Beacon deg@bigbeacon.org