Administrations around the country are looking for faculty involvement as long as it is well thought out and planned. We have many opportunities for summer and other funding to augment the support and time we have to develop lecture material and model courses and curriculums. The onus is on the faculty member to assess themselves and their current methods of teaching and propose to change the presentation media. Not to mention the learning and continuing education possibilities inherent in the development of these leading edge technologies for curriculum presentations. One Dean at a college in Georgia has gone so far as to outlaw the use of overhead projectors in the classroom in his effort to get faculty to change their mode of teaching.
Faculty members are no different from the average person in their fear of change.
In the University System of Georgia they are going to be faced with a quantum leap in change due to the new Chancellor Dr. Stephen Portch and the new direction they are heading. The easiest example is the planned switch from a quarter system to a semester system. This change will require time and thought to be done correctly. During this leap of change multimedia can be added to the mix more easily than if it were the only change. Multimedia can be a tool that will make the change from quarters to semesters easier to manage.