COORDINATOR OF DISTANCE LEARNING AND
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
This Coordinator is responsible for distance learning and educational
technology services, instructional design opportunities, production of
educational materials and assessment of these activities. This position reports
to the Director of Library and Instructional Services and specific
responsibilities include:
- Coordinating distance learning and educational technology services,
including scheduling compressed video courses through the Virginia Distance
Education Network, creating, recycling, and maintaining online courses and
enrollments via Blackboard or other course management system, providing
course information to Distance Education contact at the Virginia Community
College System office, and assisting with assessment of distance and
distributed learning, including gathering information from students and
faculty and storing data from course evaluations and other sources into a
database for planning, assessment, program development and institutional
effectiveness.
- Providing instructional design services and professional growth
opportunities in distance learning and educational technology.
- Planning operations for the effective use of educational technology in
the teaching/learning process.
- Evaluating current and emerging educational technologies to improve the
teaching/learning processes; maintaining and reporting evaluation results,
including monitoring all media and transmission quality through reviewing
media samples annually and all media about which significant concerns have
been identified.
- Maintaining and or creating appropriate records on distance education
and distributed learning enrollment, assessment, student evaluation of
instruction, faculty satisfaction surveys on educational technologies,
instructional support and training, and response times for services.
Reviewing all significant service issues and documenting all actions taken.
- Informing faculty and staff about available technological resources for
distance and distributed learning and encouraging incorporation of these
resources in courses when appropriate.
- Managing the budget of Distance Learning and Distributed Educational
Technology department.
- Coordinating distance learning and educational technology services with
day and evening services support staff.
- Ensuring compliance with copyright laws and licensing agreements
involving the educational use of materials, software, and technologies.
- Advising and making recommendations to the Director of Library and
Instructional Services on matters related to distance and distributed
learning and other educational technologies.
- Performing other duties as may be deemed appropriate by the Director of
Library and Instructional Services.