Openings for Team Leader and Collaborators for Online Russian Course

[Stuart Goldberg]

Interested applicants should contact Dr. Kikuchi directly.


Georgia Institute of Technology
Team leader and collaborators for Online Russian

The School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech announces contractual openings 
for qualified faculty, PhDs or ABDs in Russian to complete Online Russian 
courses in conjunction with a University System of Georgia Board of Regents 
grant. Phase I, Elementary Russian I, has been completed, providing a template 
and design format. 

Team leader: Primary responsibility: design and create a WebCT-Vista-based 
course for introductory Russian language instruction for three courses: 
Elementary Russian II, Intermediate Russian I & II.  The secondary duties are 
(1) to supervise two other team members and review their work, and (2) to act 
as the team liaison with the School of Modern Languages through the project and 
the technical consultants.

Qualifications: Experience in Russian Language instruction; Native or semi-
native language proficiency required.  IT skills are preferred by at least one 
team member. Must be willing and able to learn new methods to implement 
lessons, including some basic HTML coding skills, and/or Dreamweaver. If you 
are not familiar with WebCT Vista, arrangements will be made for training and 
materials design using Vista to accomplish the tasks. Ability to collaborate in 
a team is essential.

Team Collaborators (2): Assist the team leader in developing and implementing 
course content (text and media files for conversations, vocabulary and grammar 
explanations, exercises, etc.) including thorough performance checks before 
submitting the content for an external review.  

Upon completion, the course will be taught online for students enrolled in any 
college-level institution. Team leader or other instructors closely associated 
with the course content will teach the first course online, after which the 
option is available to assign it to graduate students and instructors.

The salary is contractual: Team Leader: $5,000 for each course. The instructor 
for each course taught receives $3,000 (team leader, unless otherwise 
designated). Team Collaborators: $3,750 per course.

Additional support funding is available for travel to training, for software 
and video equipment (a good computer should already be available to the 
applicants), to hire student technical and native speaker help, and for 
technical support. An applicant with advanced IT skills may earn an additional 
increment for formatting, uploading and function testing.

Send inquiry by January 10 to: Dr. Masato Kikuchi, Project Director: 
masato.kikuchi at modlangs.gatech.edu

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