Senior Specialist, Educational Development and Digital Learning

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*We are recruiting for three (3) 1-year contractual positions: two reporting to the Manager Educational Development and one reporting to the Manager Learning Technologies and Multimedia Systems.

Position Purpose:

Design and facilitate pedagogical training for faculty members with a focus on educational and learning technologies and on implementing teaching practices that are based on innovative approaches (active learning experiential learning etc.). Working with professors and production team members as an instructional designer and project lead to design online courses and resources. Offer ongoing personalized support to faculty members to help them design online face-to-face and blended courses use effective teaching strategies and integrate technology whether in the classroom or online to support student learning.

Teaching technologies Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to teaching and learning in a university context are among the priority areas for this position.

In this role your responsibilities will include:

• Design professional development activities in university teaching for professors based on best educational practices to improve teaching learning and student participation while taking into account the needs of all members of the teaching community (regular and part-time professors teaching assistants and other instructional staff).

• Collaborate with professors to design and develop online and blended courses and assists them with special projects by helping to organize their materials identify the most effective pedagogical strategies and incorporate appropriate media and learning activities.

• Participate in various activities and events design content and workshops and deliver training that promotes best practices in teaching and evaluation methods that focus on innovative approaches such as active learning classrooms and experiential learning.

• Work with a team of multi-media experts (web programmers web developers and videographer) to develop online pedagogical materials.

• Assist in integrating university-level pedagogical tools and technology by demonstrating their use and consulting with teaching staff in collaboration with the personnel from other TLSS sectors.

• Update the TLSS resources collection of best teaching practices available both online and in print and assist the person in charge of managing this collection.

• Act as project lead for a number of concurrent projects set deadlines estimate costs use planning tools allocate resources manage budgets assess risks and evaluate projects.

• Design and facilitate a range of training activities dealing with teaching- and learning-related topics offered by the TLSS and represents the TLSS on advisory/grant committees that focus on instructional expertise.

• Assist in developing ways (e.g. awards events etc.) to recognize the value of professors contributions and/or propose new ones (awards activities etc.) particularly with respect to the use of innovative practices.

• Work closely with TLSS staff and other specialists both inside and outside the university community to share information on best practices and provide recommendations on how to improve the teaching and learning experience.

• May be called upon to teach non-credit ESG courses and to coordinate ESG practicums in university teaching.

What you will bring:

• Masters degree in education or in a related field (equivalent experience in instructional design and/or related fields could be considered). PhD in education preferred

• Requires four-to-six years experience in instructional design or as a university-level instructor

• Experience in creating university teaching resources or publications (an asset)

• Experience in developing digital teaching and learning materials and learning environments

• Self-reliance and sense of initiative

• Good interpersonal skills coupled with open-mindedness flexibility and the ability to forge partnerships

• Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate a team

• Excellent writing skills

• Bilingualism English/French (spoken and written)

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