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January 2006

The Changing Role of Instructors
By Thomas Warger

Most commentary on the changing role of faculty in the information age focuses on the shift from instructors as knowledge providers to learning facilitators. But when the “sage on the stage” becomes the “guide on the side,” one thing does not change: it is still one professor with the class. The mode of instruction is importantly different—technology gives students greatly expanded access to information that in the past the instructor found, filtered, and delivered—but the one-to-many relationship still exists. And while the lecture is far from dead, students now acquire knowledge in an ever-widening array of methods devised by faculty. Impetus for this change in pedagogy was originally technological, but it has also become a sociological phenomenon: the roles of teacher and student have changed

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