[Open-education] SHEILA: "Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics” -Research Associate wanted as manager, University of Edinburgh

Thu Feb 18 11:45:29 UTC 2016

The SHEILA project (Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics, Erasmus+ funded), based at the University of Edinburgh, seeks a Research Associate to work with a multi-disciplinary team on a learning analytics policy and strategy framework for higher education. The Research Associate will work on the project that aims to address this gap with the goal of developing a framework that will guide policy development for learning analytics adoption in higher education in Europe at the levels of ministries of higher education, quality assurance bodies, and higher education institutions.

This seemed close enough to the “open education” agenda to be worth noting, and not only for those who might want a change of job.

I am sure that the open education community will expect that any policies developed by SHEILA will be supportive of open data within the wider open education context.

Enquiries not to me but to Dragan Gasevic as noted below – full details at https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=035472 

Paul Bacsich
Paul Bacsich

Coordinator, Open Education Working Group - http://education.okfn.org/blog/ 
Senior Consultant, SeroHE - http://www.serohe.co.uk 

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Position: Research Associate

Vacancy Ref: : 035472 

Closing Date : 17-Mar-2016

Contact Person : Professor Dragan Gasevic 

Contact Number : +44(0)131 651 3837

Contact Email : dragan.gasevic at ed.ac.uk

Applications are invited for an exciting new research position in learning analytics at the University of Edinburgh. We seek a Research Associate to work with a multi-disciplinary team on a learning analytics policy and strategy framework for higher education. The Research Associate will work on the project that aims to address this gap with the goal of developing a framework that will guide policy development for learning analytics adoption in higher education in Europe at the levels of ministries of higher education, quality assurance bodies, and higher education institutions. 

The post is full-time with funding available for 24 months from the European Commission funded Erasmus + project “SHEILA: Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics.” The post holder will be based in the Centre for Research in Digital Education (http://www.de.ed.ac.uk/) and will work closely with Information Services (http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services) and the School of Informatics (http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk) at the University of Edinburgh. The Research Associate will also work (mainly electronically) with the partner organisations including, the Open Universiteit Nederland, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Tallinn University, Brussels Education Services, European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, and Erasmus Student Network. This is an opportunity to develop research skills and gain research experience in a world-leading research establishment.

Salary: £26,537 - £30,738 per annum

Closing Date: 5pm GMT on Thursday 17th March 2016

Job purpose

The successful candidate will manage the day to day activities of the EC-funded SHEILA project, under the supervision of senior academic staff. The Research Associate will be involved in preparing data collection instruments and protocols, recruiting study participants, and undertaking data collection. Data collection will include a survey, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and workshops with stakeholders. With support from the project team, the Research Associate will be involved in the analysis of the qualitative and quantitative study data and writing up the study findings. The Research Associate will also provide input into the development of the policy and strategy development framework. Based on the study results, the Research Associate will also be involved in the recruitment of early learning analytics adopters, development and implementation of learning analytics training workshops, development of a framework for monitoring and organisational learning for learning analytics, and organizations of institutional workshops to validate the developed institutional strategy. The Research Associate will also participate in the organization and execute the institutional trials with the early adopters. The Research Associate will play an active role in the dissemination of the results including, writing research papers and conference presentations, organization of workshops (with online symposia) and a massive open online course. 

Further details can be found at https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=035472

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