Are You Ready to Flip

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
© David E. Goldberg 2014

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…
Tweet responses using hashtag: #bigbeacon

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

MOOCs

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.

1956

Information
• diﬃcult 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.

2005
2005
02

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,Iknow.”
“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

Stuck

The Morning: 18 March 2011

Love

Breakthrough

“I know””I trust”

“I know”
“I trust”

“We trust”“We trust.”
“We trust”
“We trust.”
“We trust.”
“Wetrust.”
“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 Oﬃce 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

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

www.olin.edu

Hire (&/or become) a coach: 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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to
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Questions?

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Email: deg@bigbeacon.org

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