TEACHING ONLINE （下）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT-_计算机网络论文.docVIP

TEACHING ONLINE （下）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT-_计算机网络论文 TEACHING ONLINE （下）ONS IN WHAT WE ARE REALLY CHANGING BY MOVING EDUCATION INTO ONLINE ENVIRONMENT?_计算机网络论文 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 sessions resemble class meetings - they really do not. A week long face to face meeting scheduled once a semester will not make much of a difference in the success of online program. In fact translation of such a meeting into an asynchronous mode may fit students needs much better. At JIU we took the lesson that asynchronous education is the correct mode for online content delivery even farther by dividing traditional roles of faculty into two complementary but asynchronous functions. Content Experts who are faculty responsible for designing