future adults to adapt, learn, and utilise any new technology they come across? Because becoming familiar with and using technology in the class will play a huge part in pupil success. And any teacher that isn't using technology in their classroom is taking a huge gamble in their role on preparing their students for their future
It takes a different skill from classroom teaching, and it is more expensive than chalk.
Either way, most faculty will need help in becoming students again. While more-effective teaching should be its own reward, a major professional-development effort would provide a new opportunity to realign institutional and faculty goals. A radical expression would be to change the rules of tenure to require faculty to teach online or otherwise demonstrate their facility with 21st-century methodologies, as virtually every other employer now requires of their work force.
Ph.D. candidates should be encouraged to pursue alternatives to the traditional burnt offerings of scholarly monographs and books.
George Eliot app, an interactive timeline, a digital repository of manuscripts, an online concordance of Middlemarch, or a Google mash-up of real and fictional settings in Victorian fiction—which could then become great tools for undergraduate teaching.
instructional technology fellows," who are doctoral students assigned to work with faculty and students on technological enhancements to the curriculum.
openness to change is an essential prerequisite to change
beginning with faculty who teach with digital gusto, and who are themselves qualified to direct technology-rich projects that will characterize an exciting new generation of scholars and teachers.