Course Instructor

Job Summary

Affiliated teaching staff need to have experience and currently be employed in their field. The University Oberta de Catalunya needs professionals whose main professional activity is linked to the position they are applying for, enabling them to provide a quality service. Therefore, applicants must have a main professional activity that they will maintain alongside their work as affiliated teaching staff.

Selection criteria:

Each candidate is assessed in all aspects, in accordance with the requirements published in each specific profile, taking into account each candidate’s qualifications, professional and/or teaching experience, and also the knowledge, skills, abilities and interests that are required to collaborate at the UOC.

What we are looking for:

• University qualification related with the knowledge area in which the candidate wishes to collaborate.
• University and/or non-university teaching experience and/or professional experience in the last three years related with the knowledge area in which the candidate wishes to collaborate.
• Excellent command of the language in which the teaching will be given.
• Having a main work activity and user-level knowledge of office software and the internet.

We value:

• Personal profile matched for carrying out teaching tasks in an online environment.
• Experience in the coordination and organization of online or on-site groups.
• Skilled in personal relations and written communication, in addition to a high level of initiative and organizational and teamwork ability.

Basic functions of teaching activities:
In an online learning environment, course instructors present, guide, plan, stimulate, focus, motivate, assess and tie together students’ learning processes, with a proactive approach. It is the course instructor’s job to provide teaching assistance to students (individually and collectively), monitoring their learning over the semester and proposing improvements to the course.

Course instructor must settle doubts, offer examples and additional explanations that make it easier for the student to understand the subject matter, stimulate debate, encourage participation in forums, correct assessment tests, provide feedback to help students’ learning processes, etc.

In addition to these basic functions, those contracted as course instructors may perform other activities related with the preparation of learning resources. Course instructor must log on to the Virtual Campus on a daily basis and must answer students in a maximum of 48 hours.