The document discusses the role of educational change agents and learning technologists. It explores how their roles have evolved over time to include advocating for more proactive and collaborative relationships with faculty. Change agents often find themselves between cultures as they work to shift paradigms and catalyze changes to instructional approaches on their campuses.

1. Becoming an Educational Change Agent www.fieldstonealliance.org/client/client_images/cartoon-change_agent.jpg By Josh Kim, Dartmouth College Blended Librarian Webcast on Thursday, May 21, 2009 @ 3pm Eastern by LearningTimes

2. http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/BusinessCardsfortheFuture/163271

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcazadi/2388418126/ Conversation

5. Barbara Knauff [email_address] Education: PhD in French Literature Yale University Background: Senior Learning Technologist: Dartmouth Adjunct Faculty Member : Dartmouth Faculty: St. Mary's College of Maryland

6. Joshua Kim [email_address] Education: PhD in Sociology (Demography) Brown University Background: Senior Learning Technologist: Dartmouth Part-Time Faculty: Dartmouth & Quinnipiac: Program Manager: Quinnipiac University Online Producer: Britannica.com Faculty: WVU

7. My first exposure to educational technology http://www.flickr.com/photos/draggin/15223525/sizes/o/

11. Status Quo http://www.flickr.com/photos/scoot/112670340/sizes/o/

12. Status Quo http://www.ansp.org/museum/leidy/other/images/Leidy_class-a.jpg 1888

13. change: from lecture to seminar http://www.exeter.edu/admissions/147_harkness.aspx

14. Change: research based approach (how people learn) http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9457&page=18 How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice National Academies Press; June 2000)

15. Change: recognizing multiple intelligences http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/5970302/sizes/o/

16. Change: The brain and how the mind works http://nehatiwari.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diagram_brain_cortex.jpg

17. Active Learning

18. Learner Centric Courses

19. Social Learning

20. Students as Knowledge Producers

21. Information Abundance

22. Communication and Collaboration

23. Constructivism

24. Change Agents

26. Between Two Cultures http://www.flickr.com/photos/alghani/2738800836/sizes/m/ Computing Faculty Professor Charles Francis Xavier

27. Question: How has the role of instructional technologist evolved over the past decade, and where is the job going?

28. Evolution of Our Jobs http://www.walksf.org/segways/segwayEvolutionByMackay.jpg

29. Question: How much of our work is reactive, and how much of is advocacy for changes in instructional paradigms?

32. Question: How are the roles between instructional designers and librarians demarcated, and where are they beginning to shift or merge?

36. Challenge: Communicating what a learning technologist does. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/04/communication2.jpg

37. Challenge: Claiming the role of colleague with faculty as opposed to support staff.

40. Polling Question: In two sentences or less explain what a learning technologist does.

43. Challenge: Getting a seat at the strategic table.

44. Challenge: Finding the right nudges to encourage instructors to partner with us in the course design and development process.

45. Discussion Question: What aspect(s) of the status quo are you trying to change in your institution?

46. Discussion Question: What do you see as the obstacles for catalyzing change?

47. Discussion Question: What are some effective strategies that you have employed to bring about change? Can you give specific examples?