Learning Technologies Analyst

1 month ago

Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo Full time

Overview:
**Term: 2 years.**

The Learning Technologies Analyst (LTA) has foundational knowledge in a range of Educational Technologies which is used for providing operational support for the full lifecycle of both credit and non-credit fully online/technology-enabled courses developed by the Centre for Extended Learning (CEL). The incumbent will be responsible for time sensitive technical service desk support, front-line relationship management, and providing exceptional service to all stakeholders including students, instructors, TAs, CEL Systems team and CEL Staff. The LTA will coordinate development and delivery support activities with other service departments across campus including Instructional Technologies and Media Services (ITMS) and Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE). Further, the LTA will provide timely advice on the appropriateness of current and future educational technologies to the Systems team and course development team within CEL. Additionally, the LTA will use his/her knowledge of information and computing technologies to ensuring a stable, secure and modern computing work environment within CEL.

**Responsibilities**:
Technical support - fully online/technology-enabled course delivery
- Manage in-term technical support for students and faculty in fully online/technology-enabled courses across all departments
- Advice internal and external stakeholders on a wide range of current and future educational technologies that support fully online/technology-enabled learning environments
- Coordinate, implement and support technical operations of the online learning environments including the UW Learning Management System (LMS) and the CEL Content Management System
(CMS)
- Implement IT service management (ITSM) best practices

Educational technology consulting - course development
- Advise on suitable educational technologies during the fully online/technology-enabled course
development activities
- Consider the support/systems implementation implications during course design, which will affect
technical support during delivery
- Collaborate with course production teams, instructors, quality assurance specialists, learner support
services and relevant external stakeholders with respect to implementing new technologies, support
services and projects
- Represents student and instructor interests at groups and projects internally and externally
- Contribute to change management activities related to educational technology
- Investigate and evaluate new/cutting edge educational technologies for use in online/technologyenabled course delivery

Technical Support - hardware/software and computing
- Manage the deployment, upgrades, updates, patches, accessories and recovery of hardware/software assets
- Manages, monitors, plans and reports on hardware/software asset inventory to support management decisions and budgetary planning
- Assess and recommend upgrades, replacements or repairs based on current and projected needs
- Plan, deploy, manage and support vendor centric software licensing in consultation with central Information Systems and Technology (IST) unit
- Diagnose, coordinate, track, resolve and escalate client-initiated support tickets in collaboration with the IST helpdesk
- Streamline existing processes and recommend new to ensure a stable, secure and modern computing work environment

Training and documentation - educational technologies
- Liaise with course production teams and instructors to assess their educational technology training
needs
- Coordinate requirement analyses and development of training solutions based on appropriate
technologies and services
- Conduct staff training on IST hardware/software usage policies and industry best practices
- Conduct training on required/new technology tools and services for CEL staff and faculty campus
wide
- Document user manuals, training manuals and FAQ for new technologies/services and proactively
update existing to ensure integrity, accuracy and relevance

Qualifications:

- An undergraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering or related discipline; or A post-secondary diploma in computer science, information systems, software engineering or related discipline combined with relevant industry certification (e.g. CompTIA A+, CompTIA N+) and 5 years of relevant experience in industry or academic institutions
- 2-5 years of experience with a proven record of accomplishment in supporting fully online/technology-enabled learning
- At least 2 years of experience supporting a Learning Management System (LMS), such as Moodle, Brightspace and Canvas, through a helpdesk software or support ticket system
- Experience in supporting Maplesoft, Mobius, Matlab and MathWorks will be highly sought after
- Hands-on experience with new and emerging educational technologies including learning/content management systems, SIS, online collaboration software, various hardware formats and multimedia technologies in general
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