ND Online Course Content Creator

Job description

You will work with an interdisciplinary team of staff and students from across King’s College London and with key external collaborators from the University of York and the University of Warwick on a project to improve the understanding neurodivergent (ND) student lived experiences of studying at university. There will be focus on accessibility of marking criteria, assessment, and feedback.

Your role will be to work with the NMES Neurodivergent study circle to co-create resources to support staff on how to create marking criteria, assessments and feedback that is accessible to neurodivergent students. You will co-create resources to support neurotypical students to understand the lived experiences of ND students.

You will be creating infographics and pen portraits are based on student data that has already been collected from quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews and focus groups at the collaborating institutions. These explored neurodivergent students learning and teaching experiences. This project aims to capture best practice, promote collaboration (student/staff) and dissemination of ideas and support staff in the development and delivery of inclusive approaches to education. 

Phase 1 Resource scoping: Review current literature, resources created by Royal Society of Chemistry, King’s college London, University of Warwick, and University of York to understand what has already been created for NT students and staff to better understand ND students teaching and learning lived experiences.

Phase 2 Course outline creation: One of the 3 universities will host an away day. The key themes identified in phase 1 will be outlined and divided into subsections. Students will choose which subsection of the course they would like to create.

Phase 3 Content development: Students will work independently, or in small groups to create subsection course content for asynchronous course for NT students and staff. NT students will be recruited to give feedback on the subsections created. The feedback from these focus groups will be thematically analysed and used to inform improvements to the subsections of the course.

Phase 4 Resource dissemination and communication of findings: Publishing the 1-hour open source, asynchronous training course for NT staff and students based in HE settings on the lived experiences of ND students in HE.

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Essential:

• Working with interdisciplinary teams


• Literature searching


• Experience of digital design


• Student recruitment (focus group)


• An understanding of neurodiversity and the student learning experience


• Attend and support project meetings.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills


• Excellent project management skills.


• Good problem-solving skills


• Digital skills


• Understanding of the importance of digital accessibility

Desirable:

• Experience of creating website for users or equivalent


• Experience of digital design


• Video creation and editing


• Qualitative data analysis


• Experience using NVIVO


• Statistical Analysis experience