Oct 21, 2021 05:08 PM
https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2021/...rofessors/
EXCERPTS: . . . These examples provide a glimpse into the future of teaching and learning in college. It is a future that will involve a drastically reduced role for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who teach face to face.
I forecast this future scenario and other trends in my 2021 book, Human Specialization in Design and Technology: The Current Wave for Learning, Culture, Industry and Beyond. As a researcher who specializes in educational technology, I see three trends that will further shrink the role of traditional college professors.
[...] In my view, universities should broaden their use of AI and conduct experiments to improve upon its usefulness to individual learners. For example, how can colleges use AI to improve student learning of calculus or help students become stronger writers?
[...] Tenure is a status that grants professors protections against being outright fired without due cause or extraordinary circumstances. However, the pandemic became a means to dismiss, suspend or terminate tenured faculty. [...] News reports continue to show a steady decline in the number of tenured faculty positions. ... Ultimately, the pandemic was an opportunity for universities to downsize unproductive faculty and keep “active practitioners.”
[...] The flipped classroom provides students with opportunities to view, listen and learn at their own pace through video instruction outside the classroom. It has been around since at least 2007.
This teaching approach is similar to the way people learn from one another by watching videos on YouTube or TikTok. However, in college the flipped classroom involves prerecorded faculty lectures of course content, whether that be on the causes and effects of the Civil War or the origins of white rice. In class, students build on the professor’s prerecorded lecture and work on activities to assist discussions and expand knowledge. The classroom becomes a place for social interaction and understanding course content. The flipped classroom maximizes instructional time for the professor and students because the lecture comes before the course’s in-class session... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: . . . These examples provide a glimpse into the future of teaching and learning in college. It is a future that will involve a drastically reduced role for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who teach face to face.
I forecast this future scenario and other trends in my 2021 book, Human Specialization in Design and Technology: The Current Wave for Learning, Culture, Industry and Beyond. As a researcher who specializes in educational technology, I see three trends that will further shrink the role of traditional college professors.
[...] In my view, universities should broaden their use of AI and conduct experiments to improve upon its usefulness to individual learners. For example, how can colleges use AI to improve student learning of calculus or help students become stronger writers?
[...] Tenure is a status that grants professors protections against being outright fired without due cause or extraordinary circumstances. However, the pandemic became a means to dismiss, suspend or terminate tenured faculty. [...] News reports continue to show a steady decline in the number of tenured faculty positions. ... Ultimately, the pandemic was an opportunity for universities to downsize unproductive faculty and keep “active practitioners.”
[...] The flipped classroom provides students with opportunities to view, listen and learn at their own pace through video instruction outside the classroom. It has been around since at least 2007.
This teaching approach is similar to the way people learn from one another by watching videos on YouTube or TikTok. However, in college the flipped classroom involves prerecorded faculty lectures of course content, whether that be on the causes and effects of the Civil War or the origins of white rice. In class, students build on the professor’s prerecorded lecture and work on activities to assist discussions and expand knowledge. The classroom becomes a place for social interaction and understanding course content. The flipped classroom maximizes instructional time for the professor and students because the lecture comes before the course’s in-class session... (MORE - missing details)