DIGITAL SCHOLAR
Whittier College, a 4-year liberal arts college in Southern California, seeks to hire its first fulltime digital scholar. This dynamic and enthusiastic candidate will help create and manage a newly remodeled collaborative digital workspace to be housed in the campus Library. The digital scholar will guide a team of faculty, students, and technology specialists to support individual and campus-wide digital initiatives. We are particularly interested in a scholar who can inspire and implement the College’s commitment to innovative pedagogies associated with digital technologies. A generous Andrew Mellon Foundation grant of $750,000 provides bridge funding to create this permanent position. For more information, please visit the Whittier Digital Liberal Arts Center blog.
Major Responsibilities:
- Promote the innovative and evolving use of technology to advance the liberal arts curriculum at Whittier College
- Research and lead development initiatives to identify emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices that are appropriate to the College’s environment
- Teach an annual course in your area of specialization, after year one
- Promote and support the use of digital technologies to enhance hybrid learning, the use of web-based collaboration tools, mobile learning technologies and games and simulations in multi-user virtual environments
- Serve as a liaison to faculty, informing them about options to integrate technology into their pedagogies
- Promote the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects
- Coordinate training opportunities for faculty to increase their understanding and awareness of established and emerging technologies
- Engage faculty and students in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using emerging digital technologies
- Advance collaboration with other colleges, including efforts to expand undergraduate research
- Be knowledgeable in the production of audio and video content in support of teaching and learning, and digital media, electronic media presentation, production, and distribution tools
- Participate in campus governance committee work, after year one
Qualifications:
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