1. Looking for Next Generation Faculty: Emerging
Technologies, Best Practices and the Red Balloon Project
7th Annual Business and Leadership Symposium
Fort Hays State University
Larry Gould
October 11, 2011
2. Executive Summary
1. The Key Message: “Next-Generation Faculty” are the Essential
Element for Fort Hays State University (FHSU) to Survive the
Perfect Storm of Declining Resources, Higher Expectations and
Unbounded Technological Change
2. Setting the Scene: Six Reasons Why “This Time is Different”
3. Who Dares Wins: The Red Balloon Project and Paradigm Shifts
4. Students Change, So Why Can’t FHSU? Here’s How
3. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason # 1: The Advent of the Internet
Both organizational and individual sources continue to erode
higher education’s role as the gateway and keeper of
knowledge
“Only the Paranoid Survive”
Andy Grove – Former CEO of INTEL
4. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason #2 – Cloud Computing
Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access,
and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of
the physical location and configuration of the system that
delivers the services
5. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason #3 – Social Media Networking Technologies
The Big Question: Can Students Do It “Themselves?”
Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Transformation of
Higher Education – DIY U
By Anya Kamenetz
(Two Growing Trends - Personal Learning Networks/Blended
Learning)
6. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason #4 – Generation Blend*
Generation Blend:
Managing Across the Technology Age Gap
By
Rob Salkowitz
*Boomers, Xers and Millenials all in one class? Whew!
7. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason #5 – Structural Transformation of the Economy = New Jobs,
New Skill Sets and the Challenge of the Eroding
Middle Class
There are new and inflated national expectations of what higher
education can deliver in terms of more and better educated
students (The Obama Promise, Lumina Goal) to meet the evolution
of new and evolving jobs. Are we redefining learning outcomes
and skill-sets to meet those expectations?
8. Setting the Scene: This Time is Different
Reason #6 – Collaborative Learning and Collaborative
Knowledge Creation
*When Will We Stop Using Technology to Replicate the Classroom
Learning Model?
*The Ultimate Measure of a High Quality Learning Experience: Will
Learning Outcomes Supplant the Credit Hour as the Essential
Element of Faculty Prowess and a College Education?
9.
10. Red Balloon and Paradigm Shifts
In effect, the Red Balloon contest now serves as a METAPHOR
for the new ways that knowledge is now being:
Created in higher education
Aggregated
Disseminated
11. Red Balloon and Paradigm Shifts
The Red Balloon contest has also become an ANALOGY for the
way that AASCU institutions are working collaboratively to re-
imagine undergraduate education, but also how:
Learning is taking place in all kinds of learning spaces
The Innovative University/University 2.0 is emerging
12. Red Balloon and Paradigm Shifts
Within the larger confines of the Red Balloon Project, institutions and
faculty are being asked to engage in “forward thinking” about the
following kinds of topics:
New models for institutional organization and design
New models for enrollment management
New models for faculty time, effort and responsibilities
New models for curriculum and course design and re-design
New models for instructional design
New approaches to assurance of learning
New approaches to strategic planning, finance and operations
13. The Value Proposition and Its Production Functions:
The “Industrial Age” Teaching Paradigm
Faculty-centered, lecture-centered, classroom-centered
Course content designed and selected by a lone-ranger/craftsman belonging
to
an academic guild
Individual learning prevails/Collaboration the exception
Technology perceived as a static, neutral tool/just apply it
Faculty workload and engagement obligations are for course and program
responsibilities/not socially produced and distributed learning
One generation/One way to Learn
* See Barr and Tagg, 1995, Nov-Dec. From Teaching to Learning—A New Paradigm for
Undergraduate Education, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 27 (6), 12-25.
14. The Value Proposition and Its Production Functions:
The “Wikinomics” Learning Paradigm*
Collaborative learning**
Dominant pedagogy: Socially-constructed/Discovery-driven Process
Self-paced personal learning environments (think 21st century digital media
tactics combined with self-reliance and empowerment)
Faculty as tech-savvy facilitators of an emergent learning process
Carefully designed blended (online and F2F)“communities of interaction”
facilitated by technology, cognitive approaches and intentional pedagogies to
enhance student engagement and content co-creation
*Tapscott and Williams, Wikinomics, 2008
*Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, 2005
**Tapscott and Williams, Educause Review, Jan-Feb, 2010
15. “The Next Generation FHSU Faculty Initiative”
A Red Balloon Core Project on How to Lead a Faculty-Driven
Institutional Transformation From the Inside-Out
How Do We Start? Five Courageous Faculty to Participate in a
Sustainable and Replicable Course Design and Redesign Process with a
focus on Blended Learning
Who Facilitates and Executes the Course Design Process? Two-Three
Instructional Designers Who Can Assist and Support Faculty with
Open Educational Resources, the Pedagogies of Engagement, Cognitive
Learning Styles, Institutional Themes (e.g. service learning, UG
Research) and Emerging Technologies
16. If Students Change, So Why Can’t FHSU? Here’s How
A Select List of Red Balloon Initiatives and Target Projects
Course Development: E3 Training and Next-Gen Scholars
Seven Revs Partnership with AASCU, NYTimes and CSIS
Multicultural Course to Diversity in the USA Course
NCATE Alignment with Collaborative Learning
General Education Program to Literacies for Life and Learning
E-Citizenship and ADP 2.0
Expansion of Undergraduate Research
17. If Students Change, So Why Can’t FHSU? Here’s How
A Select List of Red Balloon Initiatives and Target Projects
Expansion of on-campus classroom re-design
Expansion of Service Learning and Resources
Enhancement of Internationalization of the Campus and Curriculum
18. This Time is Different
We’ve heard it before, but this time is different. FHSU can’t be an
institution of the future by remaining an institution of the present.
None of us want to see FHSU become the “Lehman Brothers” of the
higher education industry. Thus, the core driver of the Red Balloon
initiative is courageous faculty---faculty who accept the idea that
“incremental innovation” is an acceptable way to change and compete
for the future---a future that doesn’t arrive by dramatic, sudden leaps,
but by trying to make things better on a daily basis. Toyota developed
incremental innovation as an approach, but it’s not just a business
principle; it’s a principle of excellence and a way of navigating what
Roger McHaney calls the “new digital shoreline” in higher education.
