Coordinator 1, Distance Education and Media Communications

Coordinator 1, Distance Education and Media Communications

(Requisition Number 0907092)

 

The UF Soil and Water Science Department is seeking a full time staff position to coordinate and assist faculty in offering online degree, certificate and extension programs. This position is depended upon for proactive enhancements, evaluation, and recommendations to the teaching and extension faculty in order to maintain and create new successful online programs.  The successful candidate will work with the Distance Education Coordinator, faculty, and staff to develop, implement and provide on-line education activities including the use of state-of-the–art technologies to support distance education.    A more detailed breakdown of job duties is included below.

 

Specific duties include:

• Work with individual faculty members to develop and implement distance education courses. Work closely with the faculty distance education coordinator and teaching faculty to ensure quality of course delivery.
• Provide individual assistance to faculty on distance education instructional initiatives, prepare lead instructor for online delivery, assist faculty to improve existing online courses, assist in identifying new courses for potential online e-learning, setting production schedules, uploading of materials, monitoring of class work and presentations.
• Assist teaching faculty with online interactive chat sessions. Develop digital training materials, web interface, and tutorials for online learning. Provide technical support to the E-Learning processes for faculty and teaching assistants. Assist faculty with necessary tutorials to update class materials for online courses.
• This position is responsible for coordinating departmental communications to external stakeholders. Includes Soil and Water Science Department website content and design, and integrating formal teaching course modules into extension in-service training modules. All additions and modifications are expected to be handled in a proactive manner so that the website remains current and contains relevant information.  Website redesign may be necessary as new templates are incorporated at either the IFAS or University level. 
• Requires frequent collaboration with departmental IT specialist and staff from IFAS communications.  Record all departmental seminars as assigned and archive them on the SWSD web site. 

 

Master’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization; or a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization and two years of appropriate experience.  Experience and demonstrated competence in working with online Learning Management System platforms, such as Sakai or especially Canvas, and online meeting platforms especially Adobe Connect.   Good understanding of online course delivery.   Experience with HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, PowerPoint, and other related programs.  Experience working collaboratively on educational courses and/or projects and leading multiple projects.  The ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.   Computer administration experience is also desirable.

 

Applications containing a resume, letter of interest and the names and contact information for three references should be submitted through the official University of Florida Human Resources procedures detailed at http://jobs.ufl.edu by January 5, 2015

 

 

 

Ramesh

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K. Ramesh Reddy | Graduate Research Professor and Chair |

Soil and Water Science Department| IFAS | University of Florida | 

PO Box 110290 | 2181 McCarty Hall A.
Gainesville, FL 32611-0290 | USA
PH 352-294-3154 | FAX 352-392-3399
EMAIL: krr@ufl.edu | http://soils.ifas.ufl.edu

 

              

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Additional Contacts:  Ms. Angela Petringelo, angelapetringelo@ufl.edu | Tel: 352-294-3151 and Ms. Cheryl Combs clcombs@ifas.ufl.edu | Tel: 352-294-3150

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