More important, what works pedagogically in one discipline may be totally inappropriate in another. We have identified three distinct goals that the Faculty Consultants network could address. Consultants serve as advocates to show faculty who currently do not use any educational technology the potential benefits and provide direct training. Consultants serve as experts or resource people who can help faculty who want to apply technology link up with relevant experts, and can help find resources. Consultants are often courseware developers who can demonstrate leadership in the deployment of educational technology.
Target group is primarily the advanced experts themselves.
Although many of Faculty Consultants are likely to be themselves leaders in the use of educational technology, we do not see this program as directly addressing their needs. Rather, we see the Faculty Consultants program as primarily addressing the first two goals above. In addition to faculty members interested in moderately substantial personal commitments to help their colleagues, it is important to develop a larger community, both to increase the visibility of educational technology and to improve communications so that faculty can identify resource people and people with similar interests elsewhere on campus. We believe that it is critical that the Faculty Consultants be conceptualized as a part of this larger distributed network of UO expertise in aspects of instructional technology. The program should be expected to evolve, particularly over the first year, and should not be expected to hit its stride until the second year.