The Educational Technologist joins a team dedicated to helping Boston University faculty navigate a rapidly changing technology landscape in order to help their students learn more effectively. The Educational Technologists key goal is to help a wide array of faculty effectively adopt and use the tools most appropriate for student learning outcomes and engage in educational innovation experiments, as defined within the contexts of their disciplines. Within these parameters, the Educational Technologists responsibilities may shift over time with the availability of tools and associated needs. The Educational Technology team is part of Boston University's office of Digital Learning & Innovation, whose mission is to promote and support the innovative application of digital technologies in education. The team collaborates closely with the Universities Center for Teaching and Learning and the Shipley Center for Digital Learning & Innovation, a group charged with supporting experiments and pilots that involve the use of technology in education.

Responsibilities:

• Consulting and advising faculty on matching technology tools to learning objectives, and training faculty on the relevant tools, in person as well as by email, phone and video conference.
• Promoting awareness of educational technologies among faculty via presentations, conferences, faculty meetings and related events, and through the creation of documentation on the BU-specific context of technology tools in multiple formats including text with screen caps and video.
• Working with Information Services & Technology and other BU organizational units to approve the adoption of new tools.
• Conducting field studies of vendors, tools, and trends in select educational technology areas of strategic importance to BU.
• Meeting and communicating regularly with technology vendors to ensure reliable and satisfactory service to faculty and other university clients.
• Answering and following up on relevant request tickets for technical help in the BU ServiceNow system.

Each Educational Technologist on the Educational Technology team specializes in supporting a particular set of technology tools. This technologists initial responsibilities will include supporting faculty on the purposeful use of learning analytics tools, as well as (depending on the chosen candidates prior experience) one or more of the following:

• Adaptive learning and personalization tools
• Artificial Intelligence technologies
• Technologies for supporting student engagement and community in the classroom

Required Skills

• Masters degree. Doctoral degree preferred.
• Degree in education, instructional technology or directly related field.
• Three to five years full-time teaching experience in a higher-education setting, at least two years work experience in a large university or other higher-education setting, preferably in a faculty-facing role.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret learning and research requirements and work collaboratively with faculty, instructional designers, project managers, and engineers at various levels of technical ability.
• Experience with instructor and student-facing learning analytics use cases and tools.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects under potentially conflicting deadlines.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in developing analytics dashboards using Power BI, Tableau or a similar tool.
• Experience with adaptive learning/personalization tools.
• Experience with the use of AI technologies in teaching and learning.
• Experience in the effective use of digital technologies for supporting student engagement and community in the classrooom.
• Experience developing training resources and/or documentation.
• Experience or training in instructional design.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt rapidly to new situations.
• Capacity for flexibility, imagination, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to approach problems with empathy, patience and a sense of humor.

Please note all newly hired staff and faculty will need to be in compliance with Boston University’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption ( instructions ). For further information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Resources site.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Required Experience

• Masters degree. Doctoral degree preferred.
• Degree in education, instructional technology or directly related field.
• Three to five years full-time teaching experience in a higher-education setting, at least two years work experience in a large university or other higher-education setting, preferably in a faculty-facing role.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret learning and research requirements and work collaboratively with faculty, instructional designers, project managers, and engineers at various levels of technical ability.
• Experience with instructor and student-facing learning analytics use cases and tools.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects under potentially conflicting deadlines.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in developing analytics dashboards using Power BI, Tableau or a similar tool.
• Experience with adaptive learning/personalization tools.
• Experience with the use of AI technologies in teaching and learning.
• Experience in the effective use of digital technologies for supporting student engagement and community in the classrooom.
• Experience developing training resources and/or documentation.
• Experience or training in instructional design.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt rapidly to new situations.
• Capacity for flexibility, imagination, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to approach problems with empathy, patience and a sense of humor.

Please note all newly hired staff and faculty will need to be in compliance with Boston University’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption ( instructions ). For further information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Resources site.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.