文档介绍：TEACHING ONLINE (下)ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT?
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CHANGES IN FACULTY ROLES
We would be foolish not to acknowledge that there is pedagogy embedded in online technologies that we use to teach.
For example, one of the most significant changes that occur in online teaching is the change in the role played by faculty. The faculty online is much less of the knowledge provider, authority and source of wisdom. The feedback we receive from JIU faculty consistently indicates that online faculty find themselves in new roles of students’ fellow discoverers, knowledge facilitators and guides.
This shift in faculty roles is happening because traditional classroom is dematerialized in online environments. Synchronicity of education is no longer necessary and social concepts and institutional rituals connected with it are being changed. With this change teachers core professional identity is being re-defined. 2
Again, we need to acknowledge this change and use it to our advantage. It means that we should not insist on replicating synchronous face to face teaching online, we should translate it.
One of the strongest lessons from JIU experience is that synchronous methods of teaching are not the most appropriate for online teaching. As much as we want to pretend that synchronous chat session