Giving Compass Take:

· Eran Ben-Ari, Top Hat's Chief Product Officer, presents nine faculty trends to watch in the coming year.

· Will there be more politically charged conversations in the classroom?  Will there be more adjunct professors?

· Read more about faculty trends in 2019.

In 2018 higher education’s attention was on student activism, debates about safe spaces, and the regulation of for-profit colleges. Faculty members were at the center of many of those conversations and Eran Ben-Ari, Top Hat’s Chief Product Officer, expects they will continue to be the hub of many of the trends emerging in 2019.

To peek ahead, he presents nine faculty trends to watch in the coming year.

  1. The Revival of the Socratic Method
  2. Politics on Campus
  3. Additional Adjuncts
  4. More Adjuncts Will Have Side Hustles
  5. Gen Z Will Demand More Tech Enabled Learning
  6. Technology Will Be More Important Than Ever
  7. More Data Will be Collected on Campuses
  8. Makerspaces Take Off on Campuses
  9. Students Buy (Even) Fewer Books

Read the full article about faculty trends to watch for in 2019 by Eran Ben-Ari at Getting Smart.