Learning Technologist in Immersive Virtual Reality - South Kensington, United Kingdom - Imperial College London

Imperial College London

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South Kensington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A Learning Technologist in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) with a proven track-record is sought to join the Department of Chemical Engineering to contribute to all aspects of our Learning and Teaching (L&T) mission and educational research process.

The role offers you scope for experimental design, data analysis, and developing projects that involve building more extensive infrastructures for VR educational analytics.

A crucial part of your role will include developing non-invasive methods to assess the effectiveness of VR-based teaching. Approaches currently under investigation include but are not limited to surveys, formative assessment, eye-tracking, and brain-computer interfaces.

You are expected to provide training, technical advice, and mentorship to teaching staff, teaching assistants and students.

Duties and responsibilities:

Contribute the AR/VR component to the development of education and learning in the Department, including new teaching materials, methods, programmes, and approaches
Provide advice on the use of immersive technologies in the delivery of teaching for the attainment of the intended learning outcomes
You will sustain an active portfolio in virtual, augmented and mixed reality and related practices, serving the department of Chemical Engineering and Imperial College London on committees; and in other capacities.
You will manage the implementation, deployment and maintenance of VR teaching facilities within the department.

Essential requirements:

You will have a first degree in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science or a similar discipline, and extensive experience in using of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality for Learning and Teaching.
You will have a track record of successfully delivering Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality technologies or programmes
You will have sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge in the discipline to develop VR/AR/MR components of teaching programmes and provide learning support including technologyenhanced learning
You will have skills relating to VR/AR development, relevant programming and software engineering capability in this area and relevant tools (especially Unity3D and C#, but also Unreal, ARKit, MRTK, etc.). You will have demonstrable expertise in C, C++, and C#.
You will have experience with multimodal analytics data for L&T research, including Eye tracking, EEG, and behavioural data analysis.
You will have experience with designing realtime data analytics systems with C++, Python, and Machine Learning is essential.
You will have experience in modelling, prototyping, design development, testing, and validation skills, and the ability to share relevant information with a wider audience.

Further information:

The post is available from 01 August 2024 on a permanent, open-ended contract. The post is based in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus).

Further information about the post is available in the job description.

Closing date:
Midnight on **Sunday 25 February 2024