Lecturer - Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design

Lecturer - Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design

Job no: 511066
Position type: FT Lecturer
Location: New York
Categories: Education/Instructional

Job Summary/Basic Function:
The Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design (CMLTD) Program seeks a Lecturer with expertise in the study of learning environments, communication, and education. Areas of expertise may include communication across new media, digital social environments, making and creative coding, game design, or other research areas related to education and emerging technologies. This position is for a 3-year appointment; it has the possibility to renew after the initial appointment.

We seek a colleague to join our interdisciplinary faculty who brings experience with research and practice examining the role of digital technologies such as mobile devices, online platforms, games, and other virtual and immersive environments across a variety of learning contexts, within and beyond schools. This position will involve both the teaching and advising of Masters students.

Program Information: The CMLTD Program prepares students for research and leadership positions incorporating innovative uses of information and communication technologies across all content areas within education, including STEM domains, literacy, social studies, arts, traditional and emerging media, and teacher education. Students explore a variety of socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives to study how applications of advanced digital technologies and new media act as powerful forces that engender, for example, new forms of communication, changes in the nature of learning, and the construction of new real and virtual sites of education.

Responsibilities:

• Teach graduate courses (5-course load) in areas related to one or more of: the study of digital social environments, culture and technology, new media, history and theory of communication, the design of educational technology, programming, creative coding, and/or game design.
  
• Advise and mentor master's students in the Communication and Education and Instructional Technology and Media MA Programs.
  
• Participate actively and collegially in departmental activities.
  
  Minimum Qualifications:
  
• Earned doctorate in a relevant discipline;
  
• Experience with teaching and advising post-secondary students (at graduate level, preferred);
  
• Experience conducting empirical research in the field of communication and education, new media, and/or digital social environments;
  
• Experience with creative uses of media in research, teaching and/or public scholarship.
  
  Application materials: Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, names of two professional references (full letters will be requested for shortlisted candidates), and a cover letter detailing the applicant's expertise and relevant qualifications for the position. Optionally, applicants can submit a publication or portfolio of work that showcases their relevant expertise.
  
  Salary Range: $70,000.00-80,000.00
  
  Equal Employment Opportunity
  Teachers College is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community and to providing equal opportunity in employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), religion, creed, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
  
  To apply, please visit: https://employment.tc.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job/511066/lecturer-communication-media-and-learning-technologies-design
  
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