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Assistant Professor, Serious Games Research University of Central Florida

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Deadline: June 11, 2015

Job Description

The School of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for a tenure-earning assistant professor position in serious games research beginning in August 2015. This is a shared position between the School of Visual Arts and Design and the Texts and Technology Ph.D. program, and the successful candidate will be involved in both areas. This is a 9-month position with an expected teaching load (pre-tenure) of four courses per academic year in addition to research and service.

Teaching responsibilities include contributing to the curriculum and coverage of research methods courses and courses that cover the design and development of techniques and technologies for serious gaming and/or interactive information design. The position has an anticipated start date of August 2015, pending the availability of funding.

 

Position Minimum Qualifications

A Ph.D. in serious games, game studies, modeling and simulation, computer science, computer engineering, digital media, or a related discipline from an accredited institution. The applicant must possess strong written communication skills. Experience creating and teaching web-based courses, developing with HTML and CSS and proficiency in digital tools, programs, or environments for serious game design and development (e.g., game engines, graphic design software). Diverse knowledge base and skill set that supports the ability to contribute to other teaching needs in the digital media department and/or the Texts and Technologies Ph.D. program is also highly valued.

The successful candidate will also have a history of human-in-the-loop experimental research and will have a deep understanding of research methods and research-based statistical methods. Experience in applying research-based theories (e.g., motivation, feedback, learning, usability) to enhance education- and entertainment-based technologies, especially games, is desirable.

 

Preferences

Ideal candidates will have teaching experience at an accredited institution of higher education. They will also aspire to a research agenda focused on serious game or simulation development, gamification strategies, or other related topics. Experience working on contract-based research with strict deadlines will identify a candidate as reliable and disciplined. Prior work with diverse teams of researchers and a willingness to collaborate within and beyond the university is strongly desired. Additionally, Digital Media faculty actively collaborate with UCFs Institute for Simulation and Training (IST). Thus, especially strong candidates will have experience with Department of Defense funded research, in addition to experience working with video games, training simulations, and serious games (especially learning games).

 

Additional Application Materials Required

The university requires that all candidates apply online at https://www.jobswithucf.com/  In addition to the online application, please also upload the following individual PDF documents: 1) letter of application, 2) CV, 3) teaching philosophy, 4) statement about scholarly or creative projects, 5) contact information for three references, and 6) a single multi-page PDF that includes examples of personal work and examples of student work (if available) with descriptions for each project (i.e., personal contributions, title, date, media, and relevance to criteria outlined in the position description).

NOTE: Please have all documents ready when applying so they can be uploaded at that time. The site will not accept more than 10MB total per applicant. Once the online submission process is finalized, the system does not allow applicants to submit documents at a later date.

Complete applications must be received by June 11, 2015. Review of completed applications will begin upon submission. The selected candidate will need to provide official transcripts.

Please direct search related inquiries to: rudy@ucf.edu

– See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000883401-01?cid=VTEVPMSJOB1#sthash.LXGbzzoN.dpuf

Job Opportunity in eLearning

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Join the team that created Bird Song Hero and other original eLearning tools. The education program at The Cornell Lab in Ithaca, New York is looking for a developer to support the creation of innovative web-based learning experiences. Their diverse team is embedded in a 15 member Webby-award-winning web communications group. Together they use Agile development strategies to support >12 million web visitors per year. This is an opportunity to engage in one of the fastest growing tech fields by actively developing tools for a wide range of online learning projects.

The Cornell Lab’s tech team is a unique working environment focused on cutting-edge web and mobile development to support science literacy and environmental awareness. This is a full time position with a Cornell University benefits package based in an office surrounded by woods, ponds, and trails.

Desired experience: web application development and interactive client-side web development.

More details and how to apply

2015 NMC SUMMER CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

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Learn new skills at NMC Academy Workshops for the
2015 NMC Summer Conference
 
The Global Ed Tech Forum for Higher Ed, Museums, Libraries, and Schools

 

June 9-11, Washington D.C.

 

Preconference NMC (New Media Consortium) Academy Workshops were developed for NMCers by NMCers. These hands-on sessions will teach you skills that relate to the creative use of emerging technologies. From digital stories and games to mobile videos — create something tangible to apply at your institution. Plus, you’ll receive an online badge from the NMCA to show for it!
NOTE: If you have already registered for Summer Conference, you can still sign up for these workshops by visiting your event cart. You can also register for any workshops, independent of registering for Summer Conference.

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellow in Hybrid & Digital Pedagogy, Bucknell University

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Review of applications will begin 5/25/15
Bucknell University is awarding a postdoctoral fellowship to a scholar who is engaged with emerging trends in digital pedagogy and hybrid learning in his/her work. Area(s) of disciplinary specialization is/are open, but we seek candidates with research interests or experience working specifically in blended learning environments in undergraduate classrooms. Appointment will be for three years, effective on or after July 1, 2015. 

As a member of the professional staff of Instructional Technology (ITEC) at Bucknell, this fellow will collaborate with faculty and administrators to explore possibilities for hybrid-learning at our residential liberal arts university. Drawing on the recommendations of Bucknell’s recent presidential task force report on Integrating Open Education Resources and Residential Learning, the fellow will help Bucknell outline a strategy for how to incorporate digital and hybrid pedagogical practices that enhance student engagement and learning while maintaining the benefits of the residential liberal arts experience.

Depending on the fellow’s particular experience and interests, his/her responsibilities may include:

  • consulting with faculty across disciplines and departments to deepen their understanding of the challenges and opportunities they face when integrating technology into their pedagogy and instructional practices.
  • collaborating with faculty to redesign courses to incorporate online modules and other learning materials, ensuring along the way that the University is following best practices in digital pedagogy.
  • partnering with faculty and colleagues in Library & ITEC to encourage the use of open educational resources.
  • collaborating with colleagues to provide specialized instruction, advice, and guidance in the application of technology to faculty, staff, and student work.
  • developing guidelines regarding how to best assess the impact that technology has on students’ engagement and learning.
  • planning, developing and facilitating ongoing campus initiatives such as: flipped classroom instructional strategies; new courses and new course designs; ePortfolio adoptions; the University’s learning management system (Moodle); active classroom design; and the integration of web technologies.
  • conducting an environmental scan of how other institutions have approached the implementation of hybrid and digital pedagogy practices.
  • leading workshops and class sessions on how, when and why to incorporate digital tools in the classroom.
  • actively participating in the hybrid and digital pedagogy profession at both the regional and national level, including the opportunity to travel for conferences, workshops, and site visits.
  • depending on departmental needs and the fellow’s interests, she or he may be invited to design, teach, and advise a university course.

Bucknell seeks a candidate who will embrace hard work, dedication, and laughter while working in a team-oriented group. In addition, he/she should be naturally curious, possess a willingness to embrace change, take intellectual risks, challenge assumptions, and relish tinkering with new technologies. The fellow is expected to contribute to Bucknell’s commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.

Colloquium: Hybrid Practices in the Arts, Sciences & Technology

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The Arts Research Collaboration initiative (ARC) at the Spencer Museum of Art continues its investigation of collaborative research bridging the arts and sciences with a colloquium on May 14, 2015, from 2:30–5:00 pm at the University of Kansas. The colloquium is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed online. The event is a follow-up to the Museum’s recent international conference, “Hybrid practices in the arts, sciences, and technology from the 1960s to today.”

The colloquium opens with a talk by Shepherd Steiner, assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory in the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Canada. Steiner’s lecture, “Bernd and Hilla Becher: Spring Points, Technical Extensions, Degree Zero,” will examine the practice of a German conceptual art duo known for their extensive photographic series of the twentieth-century industrial landscape. The Bechers’ work raises questions about objectivity, technical knowledge, and scientific truth that can benefit critical reflection on hybrid art-science-technology research more generally.

Following Steiner’s talk, there will be a roundtable for conference participants to identify common threads in the research presented at the conference and to begin synthesizing that information to make it broadly relevant to the field. Viewers are encouraged to submit questions to the presenters via Twitter using @SpencerMuseum and #HybridPractices. Find out more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FACULTY POSITIONS, INTERACTION AND VISUAL DESIGN AT UT DALLAS

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School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication

Faculty Positions – Interaction and Visual Design (pac150213)

The University of Texas at Dallas seeks applications for appointment in fall 2015 to one or more tenure-system positions, rank dependent upon qualifications, in the area of interaction and/or visual design. Appointees will teach and conduct research with colleagues in the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication. Professional design experience and active participation in the life of the design community is expected.

Preferred qualifications include experience with one or more of the following areas: strategic design, creative agency and/or startup experience, or university teaching experience. Qualified candidates should have an MFA, MDes, or PhD or related terminal degree, be well versed in design theory, and have at least 2 years of university-level teaching experience or professional equivalence in a closely related field.

Review of applications begins May 1, 2015, with a desired starting date of appointment being August 1, 2015. MFA, MDes, or PhD should be in hand by start date. Indication of gender and ethnicity for affirmative action statistical purposes is requested as part of the application. School hiring officials will receive notification when application materials are posted and are available for review.

To apply, applicants should submit (a) an online portfolio of work, (b) a current CV, (c) a letter of interest, including research and creative interests, (d) teaching evaluations if available (e) up to two sample syllabi if available, and (f) letters of recommendation from at least three professional references via the ONLINE APPLICATION FORM.

 

Digital Frontiers Conference Call For Papers: Extended Deadline!

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Deadline extended to May 15!

Digital Frontiers seeks conference submissions that explore creativity and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries in the arena of public humanities and cultural memory for the fourth annual Digital Frontiers Conference and THATCamp, September 17-19, 2015 at the University of Texas at Dallas. Submissions may include individual papers, fully-constituted panels, birds-of-a-feather discussions, hands-on tutorials, or posters. They encourage presentations that incorporate audio-visual/multimedia elements.

Established in 2012 to respond to the need for an affordable, high-quality conference that addressed the emerging field of digital humanities from a variety of perspectives, Digital Frontiers is a truly interdisciplinary experience. The conference brings together scholars and students, librarians and archivists, genealogists and public historians to share their experience of using digital resources in the humanities.

They encourage contributions from anyone who creates or uses digital collections or tools for humanities work, including scholars, educators, genealogists, archivists, technologists, librarians, and students. The conference welcomes submissions from local and regional historical and genealogical societies, and anyone working in the public humanities. The goals of this conference are to bring a broad community of users together to share their work across disciplinary and administrative boundaries, and to explore the value and impact that digital resources have on education and research.

Possible Topics include but are by no means limited to:

  • Specific ways digital libraries have changed the state of humanities research
  • Digital tools and methods for conducting humanities research
  • New media tools for teaching and making in the classroom
  • Using digital collections in the humanities classroom
  • How digital preservation serves humanities research
  • Overcoming faculty resistance to digital humanities projects and resources
  • Theoretical interventions in cultural memory and public humanities (postcolonial DH, queering DH, radical making, etc.)
  • Incorporating DH into the classroom across humanities disciplines (including student perspectives)

Proposal Types

Digital Frontiers is accepting proposals for:

  • Individual papers/presentations
  • Panels
  • Posters (36”w x 48”h)
  • Praxis Notes
  • Birds-of-a-Feather Briefs
  • Hands-on Tutorials & Workshops

Individual Papers/Presentations

Abstracts for twenty minute papers/presentations should be no more than 250 words in length and represent original research (for project updates, please submit Posters; for single-institution “case studies” or best practices recommendations, please submit a Poster or Praxis Note); proposals for fully constituted panels or roundtables should include abstracts for each presentation.

Panels

Toward achieving the conference goals, we encourage panels to be organized to represent a range of professional backgrounds and experience.  Proposals that include diverse perspectives (i.e. faculty, students, community members, and/or archivists) will be given preference over homogenous panels. We also encourage alternative panel formats (pecha kucha, lightning talks followed by small group discussions, or others) that will facilitate dialogue and enlarge participation. Panels should represent original research on a common theme (for project updates, please submit Posters; for single-institution “case studies” or best practices recommendations, please submit a Praxis Note). Please submit one 100-word abstract for the overarching panel theme, along with 250-word abstracts for each paper.

Posters

Project updates, single-institution case studies, and preliminary research can be presented as an academic poster. Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of 250 words describing the topic to be presented. Please do not submit the final poster! Further guidelines and specifications will be provided upon acceptance. Poster presenters will pitch their poster topic during a “Minute Madness” round followed by a traditional poster session in which presenters can answer questions.

Praxis Notes

Short papers describing single-institution case studies, best practices recommendations, or interventions that are not research based but reflect practices at a single institution may be submitted as a Praxis Note. These papers will be presented in a lightning round (5 minute summaries) and will be placed in the Digital Frontiers Collection in the UNT Digital Library. Complete papers are due upon submission and will be peer reviewed for inclusion in the conference. Papers should be no more than 5 pages inclusive of notes and diagrams, in PDF, and adhere to ACM LaTeX2e Style http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

Birds-of-a-Feather Briefs

Birds-of-a-feather sessions are networking opportunities in which presenters will lead an informal discussion about a chosen topic for fellow practitioners. Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of 250 words describing the topic to be discussed.

Hands-On Tutorials

Share your knowledge about a research tool, software, or methodology. In 250 words, explain what kind of tutorial you plan to provide and how this tutorial is intended to benefit the audience. Keep in mind that technology may be limited in some conference spaces. How can you make your workshop portable and accessible for a conference audience?

Digital Frontiers is growing and we are excited to work with individuals to ensure that you are able to participate. Due to anticipated number of submissions, the program planning committee may request that an individual’s contribution be presented in an alternate format such as a Birds of a Feather Brief.

Peer Review

A panel of scholars will review proposals and make recommendations to the Program Committee.

Deadline

May 15, 2015

Submissions

Submit proposals online https://conference.library.unt.edu/ocs/index.php/df2015/

With all submissions, please include a brief professional bio (100 words or less – do not send CVs) for each presenter and specify any A/V or other technical needs with your proposal.

 

Read the full posting at http://digital-frontiers.org/conference/2015/info/call-proposals

CFP for the 2015 Queerness and Games Conference

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2015 Call for Proposals OPEN NOW through June 15

The Queerness and Games Conference
October 16-18, 2015, UC Berkeley

 

The Queerness and Games Conference, an annual, community-oriented, nationally-recognized event dedicated to exploring the intersection of LGBTQ issues and video games, is accepting submissions for presentations at the 2015 conference now through June 15!

Accessibility, inclusion, and creativity are key values of QGCon. The QGCon seeks to foster dialogue between scholars, game developers, and game players. That makes QGCon different from many other conferences, and it means the audiences for your presentations will be diverse. You are encouraged to envision talks that are welcoming and engaging for attendees of all backgrounds. To get a sense for the tone of QGCon talks, feel free to check out the recordings of the 2014 and 2013 sessions. Proposals that incorporate opportunities for interaction and/or play are especially appreciated.

QGCon embraces an intersectional approach to queerness. QGCon welcomes submissions that address topics of gender, race, ability, body type, and class. This work reminds us that the struggles (and victories) of those of us who play from the margins are interconnected struggles.

FAQ’s:

What type of talk can I propose?
– Sessions types include presentations, panels, micro talks, workshops, roundtables, and performances
– You may propose to present solo, in pairs, or in small groups
– Let us know how much time you would like for your presentation. Solo talks normally run between 20 and 60 minutes, while workshops and performances sometimes need more time.

How do I submit?
To submit, please send a description of your proposed session (approximately 300-500 words) and a brief bio for each of your presenters (approximately 100-200 words) to submit@qgcon.com. Submissions are due no later than June 15, 2015. Also, please indicate what type of session you are proposing and your requested presentation length.

Are there topics or sessions you’re particularly interested in?
Yes! While we welcome all submissions that relate to queer issues and/or games, we would also love to see talks that address race, disability, gender, and class. We would also love to see more design post-mortems and more interactive workshops.

When will I find out if my talk has been accepted?
You can expect to hear back from the QGCon organizers about the status of your proposal by July 15. If you do not hear from us by late July, please feel free to get in touch.

What if I have questions?
To learn more about QGCon, please check out the information about the conference here at qgcon.com. If you have questions for the organizers, please feel free to get in touch by writing to contact@qgcon.com.

For more information on the conference: http://www.qgcon.com/what-is-qgcon/

Cinema Pacific Presents: Global Industries Forum with Eric Lin

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Friday, May 1 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Allen Hall, Julie and Rocky Dixon Signature Classroom, Allen Hall 141
1020 University Street, Eugene, OR

Join Cinema Pacific for a conversation about the Chinese film industry with School of Journalism and Communication alum Eric Lin ’97, senior manager of film production at Bona Film Group, the largest privately owned film distributor in China. Moderated by Daniel Steinhart, SOJC assistant professor and NMCC affiliated faculty member.

Light reception to follow.

 

Assistant Editor, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition

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The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is a state agency and membership organization that is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.  The KHS mission is to educate and engage the public through Kentucky history in order to confront the challenges of the future.

KHS is seeking an assistant editor to join the professional staff of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition.  This is a federally-funded, time-limited position, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The assistant editor will work directly with the project’s director and staff in Frankfort, as well as conduct independent research trips to locate, control, and scan documents held in repositories across the nation. The assistant editor will be responsible for transcription, markup, proofing, fact-checking, and research for annotation, and will share responsibility with the project‘s director for overall editorial consistency of the edition.

The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG -K) is a multi-year documentary-editing project dedicated to locating, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing documents associated with all five of the state’s Civil War governors, including the three Union governors, Beriah Magoffin (1859-62), James F. Robinson (1862-63), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-67), and the two provisional Confederate governors, George W. Johnson (1861-62) and Richard Hawes (1862-65). This edition will focus on the period between November 1860, the date of Lincoln’s election as president, and the end of December 1865, roughly corresponding with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery.

Each of these national milestones signaled a sea change in Kentucky’s political and social order.  Groundbreaking in its conceptualization, CWG-K will provide new ways to look at the society of this era. CWG-K is endorsed by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. To learn more about the digital edition, go tocivilwargovernors.org.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

·         M.A. in history; and

·         Valid driver’s license.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

·         A Ph.D. with research specialization in 19th century U.S. history.

·         Must be detail-oriented and possess excellent communication skills.

·         Working knowledge of or experience with documentary editing or digital humanities.

·         Proficiency with XML markup, particularly TEI encoding.

Starting monthly salary is $3,084.06.  Benefits include paid health and life insurance, vacation and sick leave, holiday pay, state retirement and optional deferred compensation plan.  This is a full-time position located in Frankfort KY.

To apply, e-mail complete dossier, including cover letter, c.v. or resume, transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and a short (20-30 printed page) writing sample (all files in MS-Word or PDF format), to khs.hr@ky.gov. No phone calls please.

Application deadline is May 1, 2015. Anticipated start date is June 16, 2015.Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D

To learn more about the Kentucky Historical Society, go tohttp://history.ky.gov.