Instructor assumes the role of expert or formal authority. Faculty member role is as a facilitator, guide, co-learner, mentor, coach, or professional consultant. Faculty members work in isolation. Faculty members work in teams with one another and staff outside discipline. Faculty members transmit information to the students.
Students take responsibility for learning and create partnerships between student and teacher.
Faculty members enhance student motivation by providing real life problems and by understanding students' problems. Faculty members work individually within discipline. Faculty structure is supportive and flexible. Faculty members are involved in changing the instructional and assessment landscape through new assessment instruments and peer review. Faculty members seek to encourage student initiative, empower students, and select concepts that will allow students to transfer knowledge.