Role description Educational Specialist

Summary
To support developers and implementers, Fontys ICT has a group of educational specialists. The following is a description of the purpose, tasks and responsibilities of the educational specialist.

Educational specialists contribute to educational improvement and innovation at Fontys ICT.

The core tasks of the educational team are: * Translating and securing the implementation of the educational vision;

• Improve and substantiate the educational specialist's implementation of a semester.
  • Implement ADDIE model structurally (Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate).
• Educational specialist support in (new) education to be developed.
  • Participate in the development group, using ADDIE model.
• Professionalisation of lecturers in the field of didactics, pedagogy, assessment and research.
  • Coaching, inspiring, supervising Basic-level Teaching Qualification (BKO) Mid-level Teaching Qualification (MKO) SKO. Lesson visits and workshops.
• Ensuring continuous learning lines in primary education, educational specialist curriculum.
  • Critical sparring with CEs.
• Educational specialist support and advice in formulating Fontys ICT's educational vision and its implementation.
  • Critical sparring with the Curriuculum development committee (OO) during meetings.
• Didactic assurance of digital systems to support implementation of educational vision;
• Programme implementation.

These result from the role that is fulfilled, e.g. as project leader of a project.

• Programme Managers (CEs), Project Leader Programme Implementation (PLOU), Project Leader Programme Development (PLOO);
• Lecturers;
• People Manager (PM);
• Operations Manager (UM);
• Students;
• Research groups;
• Fellow educational specialists within and outside Fontys;
• MT members and project leaders (who are responsible for certain Fontys ICT projects);
• HR;
• Student+;
• Fontys central services and programmes, such as the Education & Research department (Dienst O&O) and the DLO steering group;
• External contacts, such as other universities of applied sciences, suppliers of digital systems (e.g. Canvas and Drieam) and the work field (WAC).