Rethinking the Role of the Professor in an Age of High-Tech Tools

Will 'unbundling' of tasks give faculty members more time or put them on the sidelines?

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

New technologies could take over many of the instructional duties that now define professors' jobs, according to faculty members who are peering into the future. Some of them are alarmed by what they see, while others are encouraged.

Among the latter...

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