Educational Learning Technologist

About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Centre for Time Use Research
• CLOSER
• EPPI Centre
• Quantitative Social Science
• Social Science Research Unit
• Thomas Coram Research Unit

All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

About the role

The Educational / Learning Technologist will be responsible for supporting and enhancing CLOSER's online learning provision, with a key focus on consolidating the existing Learning Hub and Training Hub into a single, user-friendly platform, and supporting the development and delivery of a suite of online asynchronous short courses.

This role involves working with the Head of Education and Training (ET) to develop high-quality, accessible online learning materials that meet the needs of researchers, data professionals and policy makers working with longitudinal population studies (LPS) data. The Educational / Learning Technologist will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering effective digital learning experiences, ensuring that all content is pedagogically sound and accessible to all users.

In addition to leading the technical and strategic integration of the Learning and Training Hubs, the Educational / Learning Technologist will provide pedagogic support and guidance on best practices in online education. This includes developing learning resources that adhere to accessibility standards and delivering presentations, demonstrations, and training sessions to our main audiences – students, academics and policy researchers. A key part of the role will involve incorporating user experience (UX) feedback to enable the continuous improvement of the online offerings.

The Educational / Learning Technologist will also be responsible for maintaining engagement with users by providing ongoing support and troubleshooting for the platforms. They will work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure the effective delivery of online learning content, as well as contributing to the wider activities of the CLOSER Education & Training team to support its mission to deliver comprehensive, accessible and high-quality learning resources and training.

The role is available until 30th September 2028 in the first instance.

About you

You will have a relevant degree or significant, equivalent, professional experience and an understanding of how web-based, multimedia and mobile technologies can be used to enhance learning and teaching. You will also have experience of course design using Moodle or other virtual learning environment.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

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