Straddling the Chasm

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Straddling the Chasm supporting faculty in a networked, digital era

Michelle Pacansky-Brock brocansky.com

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What is preventing us

from improving this problem?

Barriers to Innovation5

A culture of smallness.1

Barrier to Innovation

small big

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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation and creativity.

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-Brene Brown Professor, University of Houston

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation and creativity.

-Brene Brown Professor, University of Houston

Nobody.

Experts in transforming the academy

Perceptions of faculty.2

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“We must support both sides of the chasm.”

- Phil Hill

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Digital Participation.3

Christopher P. Long, @cplongMichigan State University

“You know you are in a supportive culture when being open and transparent is not a

risky thing to do.”

- Dike Drummond, M.D.

Christopher P. Long - @cplong, Philosophy Professor, Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University

“…you will be Googled, and when you are, your domain should appear early in the results as the fulcrum of a carefully cultivated online identity.”

Image by Christopher P. Long

Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis (IUPUI)Open Access linked to Tenure & Promotion

Tenure

Odell, J., Coates, H., & Palmer, K. (2016). Rewarding open access scholarship in promotion and tenure Driving institutional change. College & Research Libraries News, 77(7), 322-325.

Digital literacy.

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4Tool adoption

process.

USE OFSOCIALTECHNOLOGIES

Seaman, J.; Tinti-Kane. H. (2013). Social media for teaching and learning.Pearson Learning Solutions and Babson Survey Research Group.

FACULTY

MAINSTREAM?

WHAT IS

THE LMSMAINSTREAM?WHAT IS

49%58%60%

74%77%Posting content

Receiving course assignments

Managing assignments

Entering progress info

Engaging in meaningful interaction with students

Faculty Satisfaction with LMS Features

Slide by Michelle Pacansky-BrockSource: 2014 ECAR LMS Report https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers1414.pdf

3 LMS Features Students Are Least Satisfied With

Collaborating on projects for study groups with other students

Engaging in meaningful interaction with other students

Engaging in meaningful interaction with instructors

Tool adoption starts here

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and must consider this

Permanent Faculty(tenure or tenure track)

Source: National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS data center. http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter

and this

studentsand this

Source: Pacansky-Brock, M. (2015). Examining the effects of an eBook to support faculty who teach with VoiceThread: An action research study. (Doctoral dissertation).

“I want to use the grade book integration (for VoiceThread) and I don’t like my

students creating their own accounts. But my administration won’t buy a site-wide license until more faculty use the tool.”

- Anonymous part-time faculty member

[my discipline].

3rd Party Tool

students &

instructors

students &

instructors

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)

students &

instructors

3rd Party Tool

Time & Place.

5Barrier to

Innovation

Professional development and training are major

factors affecting technological innovation within higher education

organizations.Austin, A. E., & Sorcinelli, M. D. (2013). The future of faculty development: Where

are we going?. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013(133), 85-97.Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brockphoto by Sharon Mollerus CC-BY

9 out of 10 institutions provide

professional development for online instructors through face-to-

face deliverySource: Meyer, K. A.; Murrell, V.S. A national study of training content and activities for faculty development for online teaching. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 18(1), 2014 Slide by Michelle Pacansky-Brock

4 Tips for Making Change

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Faculty Views About Just-In-Time PD

“I didn’t have to go anywhere. I had more freedom”

“I am at the center. In a workshop, I’m passive most of the time.”

“I could only attend a face-to-face event at one of the three institutions [at which I teach].”

Pacansky-Brock, M. (2015). Examining the effects of an eBook to support faculty who teach with VoiceThread: An action research study. (Doctoral dissertation).

Untethered Faculty Development

Teaching & learning Innovations at CI

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CCCCSU

Design a 5-Day

Workout!Shared in the Public Domain

by University of Washington, Bothell (@Todd_Conaway)

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1152482

1. Culture of Smallness

Barriers to Innovation

2. Perceptions of Faculty

3. Digital Participation

5. Time & Place

4. Tool Adoption Process5

Identifying shared values among ecosystem partners moves us from

fragmentation to relatedness.(Senge, 2008, 2009)

start small

start small but

BE BIG

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“Those who don’t jump will never fly.”

-Leena Ahmad Almashat

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