We are looking for a postdoc researcher educational technology for the I-learn project
I-LEARN SENIOR RESEARCHER EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
ITEC is a research group of KU Leuven and imec, Flanders’ high-tech research and innovation centre for nanoelectronics and digital
technologies. On the Kortrijk campus of KU Leuven, ITEC brings together researchers from three different faculties (Psychology &
Educational Sciences, Arts and Medicine) and five disciplines (educational psychology, statistics, applied linguistics, data science and
computer science) to work together on research themes in educational technology, such as instructional design and the effectiveness of
online learning environments (e.g. e-learning, serious games), statistical modelling, adaptive learning algorithms and natural language
processing.
ITEC is a structural part of imec and is responsible for managing the imec Smart Education research programme, in which a broader interuniversity
team of research groups interacts (including from the UGent and the VUB), including imec Academy. The imec Smart Education
research programme focuses on research lines relating to the use of technologies such as wearables, artificial intelligence or learning
analytics.
As an educational technologist, you will have every opportunity to develop yourself further in your professional career and you will have
every opportunity to expand the network of partners in the flourishing market of educational technology.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As a postdoc educational technologist, you are responsible for the content management of the i-Learn project, the aim of which is to make
specific personalised learning technology available to our primary and secondary schools via an open portal so that they can offer their
pupils personalised learning material. In this way, they can respond more adequately to the specific characteristics of each pupil: further
challenging stronger pupils and more targeted support for vulnerable pupils.
Your task will be to determine the effective needs of schools, teachers and pupils in the field of personalised learning, and to continuously
benchmark and monitor the effectiveness of the programme.
In concrete terms, this means that you are responsible for:
- mapping out the typology for personalised digital learning;
- mapping out the specific and target group specific needs of Flemish education in terms of personalised learning;
- developing the necessary specifications based on your analyses for the technological roll-out in the schools;
- monitoring the effectiveness of the entire programme on a continuous basis;
- international benchmarking of the programme on a continuous basis;
- actively thinking along about how this project can be rolled out as widely as possible and how the solutions can be used in a sustainable way.
Your specific task in this assignment will be that of effectiveness research. This means that in this assignment you will focus on monitoring
the effectiveness of the global program, as well as monitoring the effectiveness of specific chosen tools for personalized learning.
You will work in a multidisciplinary team consisting of 35 researchers and report to the 4 Principal Investigators. In your daily job you will
work closely with the other colleagues of the project team within ITEC but also within imec and KU Leuven.
PROFILE
- You have already obtained a PhD in pedagogical sciences or related fields (such as psychology or computer science).
- You have experience in instructional psychology, educational technology and educational effectiveness and are interested in the research lines of ITEC.
- You have a perfect command of Dutch and a very good command of English (both in oral communication and in the field of reading and writing).
- You are a team player, you have managerial skills and you can motivate employees.
- You are flexible, convincing and have a sense of initiative.
- You are stress resistant and can easily deal with deadlines.
We kindly ask candidates to include a short motivation letter in addition to their more detailed CV in which they express their interest in this
vacancy.
OFFER
In this role, you represent a prestigious research institute that focuses on excellence in research and tries to bring about positive societal
effects. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself by learning about the EdTech landscape, the (international) network in which
we operate (typically the triple helix; social and economic players, the academic world and education) and to influence developments in
education and learning. This position offers flexibility, the opportunity to work with an enthusiastic team in a stimulating multicultural and
multidisciplinary environment and to learn continuously. Your home office is located at the KU Leuven Kulak campus in Kortrijk.
We offer a full-time, fully financed position for 1 year (possibly extendable to 3 years subject to a positive evaluation).
In addition to a competitive salary, KU Leuven also offers a number of additional advantages, such as the possibility of flexible working,
hospitalisation insurance, eco vouchers, reimbursement for commuting by public transport, inexpensive meals, a KULeuven bicycle, etc.
INTERESTED?
For more information please contact Prof. dr. Fien Depaepe, tel.: +32 56 24 60 75, mail: fien.depaepe@kuleuven.be or Mrs. Ine Windey,
tel.: +32 56 24 64 19, mail: ine.windey@kuleuven.be.