Learning Technologist in Immersive Virtual Reality

2 months ago


South Kensington, United Kingdom Imperial College London Full time

A Learning Technologist in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) with a proven track-record is sought to join the Department of Chemical Engineering to contribute to all aspects of our Learning and Teaching (L&T) mission and educational research process.

The role offers you scope for experimental design, data analysis, and developing projects that involve building more extensive infrastructures for VR educational analytics. A crucial part of your role will include developing non-invasive methods to assess the effectiveness of VR-based teaching. Approaches currently under investigation include but are not limited to surveys, formative assessment, eye-tracking, and brain-computer interfaces.

You are expected to provide training, technical advice, and mentorship to teaching staff, teaching assistants and students.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Contribute the AR/VR component to the development of education and learning in the Department, including new teaching materials, methods, programmes, and approaches
- Provide advice on the use of immersive technologies in the delivery of teaching for the attainment of the intended learning outcomes
- You will sustain an active portfolio in virtual, augmented and mixed reality and related practices, serving the department of Chemical Engineering and Imperial College London on committees; and in other capacities.
- You will manage the implementation, deployment and maintenance of VR teaching facilities within the department.

**Essential requirements**:

- You will have a first degree in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science or a similar discipline, and extensive experience in using of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality for Learning and Teaching.
- You will have a track record of successfully delivering Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality technologies or programmes
- You will have sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge in the discipline to develop VR/AR/MR components of teaching programmes and provide learning support including technology-enhanced learning
- You will have skills relating to VR/AR development, relevant programming and software engineering capability in this area and relevant tools (especially Unity3D and C#, but also Unreal, ARKit, MRTK, etc.). You will have demonstrable expertise in C, C++, and C#.
- You will have experience with multimodal analytics data for L&T research, including Eye tracking, EEG, and behavioural data analysis.
- You will have experience with designing real-time data analytics systems with C++, Python, and Machine Learning is essential.
- You will have experience in modelling, prototyping, design development, testing, and validation skills, and the ability to share relevant information with a wider audience.

**Further information**:
The post is available from 01 August 2024 on a permanent, open-ended contract. The post is based in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus).

Further information about the post is available in the job description.

***Closing date**:Midnight on **Sunday 25 February 2024


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