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Circle U Student Fellow on hybrid teaching
Deadline: 15.12.2024
Universitetet i Oslo
The University of Oslo is Norway’s oldest and highest ranked educational and research institution, with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. With its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally recognised research communities, UiO is an important contributor to society.
The Department of Education Services has overall responsibility for the operation, management and standardization of administrative support functions in education. The department shall assist UiO's management strategically and operationally, as well as ensure institutional follow-up and coordination. The department shall assist the units with administrative operations and provide services directly to students and applicants and lead UiO's education administrative networks.
About the position
The Department for Study Administration will employ 1 student in part-time positions to work alongside academic staff at the University of Oslo on the project Hybrid Circle U.
About Circle U
Circle U. is a research-intensive and interdisciplinary alliance working to provide outstanding education, research and innovation to contribute to more sustainable, democratic and healthier societies. The following Universities are member of the alliance: Aarhus Universitet (Denmark), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), King’s College London (United Kingdom), Università di Pisa (Italy), Universität Wien (Austria), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Université Paris Cité (France), Universitetet i Oslo (Norway) and Univerzitet u Beogradu (Serbia).
About Student Fellows
As a Student Fellow, you are hired as a project assistant in a 20% position and become part of Circle U. team at the University of Oslo. In this role as student fellow, you will collaborate with staff at UiO’s Center for Learning, Innovation and Academic Development who will act as your supervisors. Working hours will be determined in consultation with your supervisors, and there is room for flexible working hours.
Work tasks
The project "Hybrid Circle U" will focus on various ways to enable effective teaching and interaction in educational settings where part of the student group participates physically and others participate digitally. The project is led by Humboldt University in Berlin and includes participants from the University of Oslo, the University of Vienna, Aarhus University, King's College London, and UCLouvain. It is anchored in the Circle Us Teaching and Innovation Lab (CU.til) and targets, among others, educators associated with Circle Us' four knowledge hubs for Global Health, Climate, Democracy, and Artificial Intelligence. The project starts in January 2025 and will last throughout the year.
The goals of the project are to:
- Explore the potential benefits of hybrid teaching concerning inclusive, flexible, and international education.
- Support the implementation of high-quality hybrid teaching across Circle U.
- Contribute to collaboration and knowledge exchange between Centers of Teaching and Learning at the various Circle U universities.
As a Student Fellow in this project, you will, among other things:
- Collect and systematize both students' (your own and others') and educators' experiences with hybrid teaching.
- Develop guides on how educators can design various hybrid teaching sessions.
- Plan and organize workshops aimed at assisting educators in designing hybrid teaching sessions.
- Disseminate the project results in various forums and channels.
Several partner universities in this project will also attempt to employ Student Fellows, and we aim for these Fellows to collaborate on various activities.
We are looking for you who
- Are a student at the University of Oslo.
- Communicates well in both written and spoken Norwegian and English.
- Have a special interest in or other qualifications relevant to the project.
We offer
- An exciting and challenging part-time position with opportunities for professional development.
- The opportunity to work on interdisciplinary topics within technology and pedagogy.
- Experience in an international work environment within the Circle U network.
- Flexible working hours suitable for students.
- Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with favorable mortgages and good insurance schemes.
- Salary in position as consultant/position code 1065, in salary range NOK 418 500 per year in 20% position over a 12 months period. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.
How to apply
The application in Norwegian or in English must include:
- cover letter statement of motivation
- CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work)
- copies of educational certificates (academic transcripts only)
- list of reference persons: 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and phone number)
The application with attachments must be delivered in our recruiting system.
Formal regulations
Interviews with the best qualified candidates will be arranged.
According to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.
Inclusion and diversity are a strength. The University of Oslo has a personnel policy objective of achieving a balanced gender composition.Furthermore, we want employees with diverse professional expertise, life experience and perspectives.
If there are qualified applicants with disabilities, employment gaps or immigrant background, we will invite at least one applicant from each of these categories to an interview.
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