UF Center for Teaching Excellence is hiring a Textbook Affordability Coordinator. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on teaching excellence and textbook affordability at the University.
Key Responsibilities:
- Disseminate innovative practices for the adoption, integration, and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER), eTextbooks, and open-source tools.
- Conduct research in collaboration with faculty on affordability, access, and quality of educational resources.
- Coordinate the textbook adoption process and generate ensuing reports.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop resources, processes, trainings, and support.
Specific Duties:
- Coordinate affordability and access opportunities for faculty and campus units, including individual consultations.
- Create workflows for the adoption, adaptation, and creation of high-quality affordable learning materials and tools.
- Monitor emerging trends to identify and promote appropriate affordable content initiatives.
- Monitor university-wide textbook adoptions and ensure at least 95% of all textbooks and instructional materials are submitted at least 45 days before the start of each term.
- Coordinate completion of the annual BOG Textbook and Instructional Materials Report to ensure compliance with Florida Statues.
- Create and/or coordinate all Affordable UF projects and initiatives, including trainings and faculty learning communities.
- Establish project goals and monitor progress to ensure project completion, including budget and expenditures.
- Investigate and seek additional funding opportunities to increase textbook affordability at UF.
- Develop program budgets and monitor/submit expenditures.
- Collaborate with content experts to design professional development programming regarding open educational practices.
- Develop and design learning aids including instructional guides and web content.
- Create and facilitate ongoing workshops to help faculty and TAs integrate affordable options into teaching and innovative pedagogies.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training materials to ensure objectives are accomplished.
- Perform other duties as assigned, such as developing and revising written content for CTE and supporting other CTE initiatives.