Summary
As a member of the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Group, the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist collaborates with faculty, staff, and students to utilize technological solutions in the fulfilment of teaching, learning and research objectives. They contribute to faculty and staff development by organizing events such as workshops, learning communities, and seminars on digital topics of relevance to the Bucknell community, as well as by vetting new technologies and communicating their findings to the University. This position leads the department’s efforts in implementing an internal and external communications plan that highlights and shares the work being done across campus in digital pedagogy & scholarship.
Duties and Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
Outreach
- collaborates with faculty, staff, and students to explore and implement emerging technologies that may foster new modes of learning and scholarship
- provides specialized instruction, advice, and guidance to faculty and students in the application of technology in teaching, learning, and research
- coordinates, develops, organizes, and leads events and programs such as presentations, workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and learning communities
- participates in programming for Library & IT’s Digital Scholarship Center by leading workshops or identifying speakers of interest from within or outside the campus community
- provides initial guidance to faculty members to facilitate digital scholarship projects including: project vision and definition, advice about project scope, requirements, specification, and or design
- serves as project manager (as appropriate) for digital scholarship projects
- serves as project team member (as appropriate) for digital scholarship projects
Administrative
- leads the department’s efforts (while collaborating with Library & IT’s Manager of Communications and Outreach) in implementing an internal and external communications plan that highlights and shares the work being done across campus in digital pedagogy & scholarship
- creates and shares reports on departmental activities for L&IT colleagues, campus leadership, faculty, and external audiences
- highlights digital pedagogy & scholarship projects by:
- developing, maintaining, and soliciting content for our web showcase
- writing content for other venues such as The Next Page, L&IT Matters, and University Communications
- curating and showcasing digital pedagogy and scholarship artifacts, such as syllabi, course projects, articles, conference presentations, etc. in an open and online platform
- participates in and helps implement assessment efforts in the department
- demonstrates discipline and independent judgment in furthering departmental and L&IT initiatives
- performs other duties as assigned or requested
Secondary Responsibilities:
- assures that technology tools and solutions that support faculty instruction are reliable, well-maintained, and supported effectively
- actively identifies possible points of collaboration with other areas within Library & Information Technology and other stakeholders across campus
- supports other members of the Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship team in providing coverage to the campus community
- moves forward team, organization, and University strategic plans
- collaborates with Library and IT staff on building community establishing the Library as a central site of scholarly inquiry
- collaborates with Research Services librarians to promote information and digital literacies and resources across campus
Tertiary Responsibilities:
- actively participates in the academic technology/instructional technology/digital scholarship profession at both the national and regional levels
- determines what practices/tools at other institutions are worth examining and potentially implementing at Bucknell
- shares information about L&IT’s achievements and challenges as related to their role as digital pedagogy & scholarship specialist
- serves on appropriate campus committees as representative of Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship and/or Library & IT
- attends academic department lectures, colloquiums, etc.
The Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist must keep abreast of changing technologies and their application in higher education. Specifically, the specialist maintains a deep knowledge of current and emerging trends, issues, and best practices in faculty outreach, instruction, information literacy/technology competency, blended learning, multi-media production, web technologies, digital scholarship, and desktop tools.