Online Short Course Tutor

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Operations and External Affairs
Academic Enterprise
UAL - Various sites, London UK
Hourly Paid Lecturer
Basic hourly rate £21.58 per hour, multiplied by 3.375 for online teaching contact hours

Fixed Term - Variable

Hourly paid - Variable hours per week

4 September 2019 23:55

The opportunity

UAL Online Short Courses provide learners from around the world with high-quality learning in a wide range of subjects related to art, design, fashion, communication and the creative industries. We give learners the specialist skills, knowledge, and inspiration to progress towards a wide variety of goals, from starting a business, or progressing a career, to preparing for degree study or developing a passion. 

We want to develop new courses to expand the range of creative pathways we can offer to our students. We are inviting creative specialists to propose new courses and become tutors with our growing department. Please see our existing course range here https://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/short-courses/online-short-courses, to see the kinds of courses we currently offer.

The tutor role is vital to our learner’s success. As a tutor, your role will be to design and deliver 4 or 6 week short courses in your areas of expertise and ensure learners have an enjoyable and successful learning experience. This includes defining the purpose and scope of your courses, developing course content, and delivering live sessions in our online classrooms.

You will also work with the online short course office team to ensure your courses run smoothly and in accordance with our policies and procedures.

As a tutor, you will also be our learners’ most important point of contact with the university as a whole, and therefore tutors must understand their role as a representative of UAL, and ensure students feel welcome, supported, encouraged, and inspired.

About you

We are looking for tutors who have formal training in their creative discipline plus extensive relevant industry experience. We prefer candidates with a teaching qualification (PG Cert or equivalent), but it is not essential as long as you have some informal teaching experience (running workshops, CPD sessions, guest lectures, coaching, mentoring etc.).

Our most successful tutors are expert at designing well-structured and clear learning experiences which are focused on the application of skills rather than on theory. They are excellent communicators, both through written and visual materials and during the live sessions they deliver, and they know how to engage learners from various backgrounds in interactive and enjoyable learning activities. They are also confident users of technology (such as web conferencing, forum participation, or using simple content management systems, etc.).

If this describes you, and you have ideas for courses you’d like to teach, please get in touch.

This opportunity is closed to applications.