Electronic Learning Development Senior Specialist

About the role

The Electronic Learning Development Senior Specialist contributes to the mission of Office of Distance Education in the College of Arts and Sciences primarily by helping to manage the teaching toolsets available to faculty. This position assists the Director of Distance Education, college academic units and faculty in meeting their instructional technology needs through evaluation and selection of high-quality software curricular tools and educational applications, both existing and new.

Responsibilities

• Supports design and development strategies to improve teaching effectiveness in the delivery of online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses.
• Tracks inventory and evaluates current tools through conducting regular meetings and facilitating a community of practice to assess local instructional needs and identify appropriate digital solutions to advance teaching and learning within the college.
• Coordinates efforts to review, pilot, and assess software suited for Learning Management System (LMS) integration and other teaching needs.
• Facilitates adoption discussions, aligns and coordinates multiple unit purchases ensuring funding, initiates legal review with the Business Service Center, engages in other aspects of purchasing by coordinating security, privacy and accessibility reviews with the College of Arts and Sciences IT Governance, Risk Management and Privacy Team and the ASC Digital Accessibility Team as well as the ADA office and other compliance groups.
• Functions as a point of contact and facilitator for enterprise toolset suitability testing and installation with the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation’s tool adoption and Carmen Support team.
• Manages changes in the college’s LMS including communications, resource development and training, selected software integrations with the LMS, and pilot software through to the adoption review and decision-making process (listening for faculty needs throughout the college, surveying available software guiding vendor remediation, pilot planning and implementation, assessment, and then communication, training, and support to ASC faculty, coordination with OTDI and other campus partners including partner colleges seeking solutions or adopting the same tool).
• Maintains records of approved tools used within the college and across the higher educational landscape and regularly review their suitability within the wider picture of need, usage, future growth, cost, compliance, and risk suitability with the Director and the Arts & Sciences IT Governance, Risk Management, Accessibility, and Privacy Teams on regular basis.
• Works with the IT Governance and Risk Management and Privacy and Digital Accessibility teams in Arts and Sciences as well as with university representatives to ensure an appropriate audit trail is maintained for all evaluations and that accommodation/remediation efforts are tracked and reported.
• Creates resources and training opportunities on how to develop teaching and learning materials using the available toolset in coordination with ODE’s resource development plan.
• Works with other units on campus and across institutions in the Big Ten and elsewhere to share information about best practices in digital content and activity development in higher education and to stay up to date on security, privacy, accessibility, and faculty development best practices.
• Serves as the Office of Distance Education’s Accessibility Designee, attending regular digital accessibility meetings and reporting updates to the team and via ODE’s website and communities of practice, facilitating review and exceptions processes for tools (including textbooks) requiring ADA documentation, and serving as advisor on issues of accessibility in teaching in ASC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree; Four years relevant experience.
• Familiarity with principles of education and curricular development, with distance education and technology-enabled teaching, and with Canvas LMS and the functionality of Learning Tools Interoperability (LTIs).
• Knowledgeable of major issues in data security, privacy, access, and ownership in higher education.
• Understanding of current AI transformations in higher educational teaching and learning toolsets.
• Strong collaborative experience, organizational skills, ability to work on multiple projects and manage priorities.
• Strong documentation and communication skills with ability to shift communication approaches based on audience.
• Understanding of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Title II, as well as Section 508 of the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Skills

• Ability to quick test for accessibility using VPAT and HECVAT documentation.
• Familiarity with OSU Workday procurement protocol.
• Experience offering personable compliance guidance communications in writing and presentation formats.

Benefits

At the direction of the Director of Distance Education, the specialist will coordinate efforts to review, pilot, and assess software suited for Learning Management System (LMS) integration and other teaching needs. This work includes several phases of software procurement including facilitating adoption discussions, aligning and coordinating multiple unit purchases ensuring funding, initiating legal review with the Business Service Center, engaging in other aspects of purchasing by coordinating security, privacy and accessibility reviews with the College of Arts and Sciences IT Governance, Risk Management and Privacy Team and the ASC Digital Accessibility Team as well as the ADA office and other compliance groups.

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