Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities:
· 1. Provide campus leadership and administer support for the more than 200 faculty members who deliver learning online to the one-third of UIS students who are online degree majors and the 60% of UIS students who take online learning classes each semester.
· 2. Conceptualize, revise, develop and deploy the online learning support structure for faculty members who are teaching the approximately 450 classes offered each semester online at UIS.
· 3. Conceptualize, write, secure, administer and serve as fiscal officer and principal investigator for national grants in online learning. Specifically, to build upon the record of securing millions of dollars in national projects in the field of online learning, to aggressively expand the UIS national agenda of grant-supported research into cutting-edge technological and pedagogical studies that help to shape the emerging practices in higher education nationally.
· 4. The director must teach an online course(s) to remain current with issues and best practices and to demonstrate the practice of innovation and leadership in online learning teaching.
· 5. Maintain and extend the UIS reputation for excellence in online learning, through research, peer-reviewed publication and national presentations.
· 6. Propose, develop, and efficiently execute budgets and fiscal officer responsibilities for multiple national grants, online learning fees, and appropriated budgets.
· 7. Advise the Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Chancellor on the development of new policies, practices and initiatives addressing the evolving role of the Internet and related technologies in higher education as they relate to UIS.
· 8. Anticipate changes in higher education delivery as they relate to online learning and assure that UIS remains in a leadership position, protecting and expanding the online enrollment base.
· 9. Ensure that the multi-part mission (learning, research and service) of COLRS is fulfilled – developing new modes for online curriculum delivery, identifying funding to support new research in online learning, and creating opportunities for UIS to perform service online, including:
o Review, revise, develop and expand the faculty research fellows program
o Create and teach faculty development programs and workshops on online learning
o Seek out opportunities for collaboration in online learning research and practice with other higher education institutions
· 10. Meet with campus committees, cabinets, administrators, and faculty members to advise; plan; devise; design; propose; and promote university-wide practices and policies; and implement those policies to create measurable innovation and excellence in online learning.
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