UM affiliate director of media, tech options

As a champion of Michigan’s Heart for Educational Innovation, I’m all the time searching for alternatives to focus on CAI’s work. Once I noticed that CAI is recruiting for an affiliate director of media and know-how options, I reached out to see if I might assist unfold the phrase with my new “Featured Gig” collection. Jeremy Nelson, CAI’s senior director of artistic studios, shared his ideas on the position.

Q: What’s the college’s mandate behind this position? How does it assist align with and advance the college’s strategic priorities?

A: Earlier this 12 months, President Ono rolled out Imaginative and prescient 2034 for the college, which offers a street map for the following 10 years at our establishment. A key precedence is furthering our efforts to attain “life-changing schooling” for our college students and learners, together with aspiring to “a future wherein a U-M schooling connects and empowers learners all over the place to succeed in their full potential by increasing entry, choices, and supply to a extra numerous group of people.” Many individuals and capabilities will likely be concerned on this work; amongst them, a strong and scalable media infrastructure is essential.

For instance, the college made a serious funding in skilled studio infrastructure and gear this previous 12 months by constructing six new state-of-the-art manufacturing studios inside the Heart for Educational Innovation, one in every of them being an prolonged actuality digital manufacturing studio. The affiliate director of media and know-how options position will lead a extremely technical staff of media and know-how professionals that may keep these studios, the community and server infrastructure, and media administration to make sure we will proceed to scale high-quality instructional media productions to fulfill the tutorial pedagogy objectives of our school.

As extra of our tutorial companions construct capability to ship on-line levels, high-quality media manufacturing will likely be a core part of this. This position will assist inform the technique for growing high-quality media for on-line for-credit and noncredit applications and ship on our purpose to supply community studio capability for the campus.

Q: The place does the position sit within the college construction? How will the individual on this position interact with different items and leaders throughout campus?

A: This position will likely be located inside the Inventive Studios staff on the Heart for Educational Innovation and report on to me. The individual on this position could have a possibility to deeply perceive the present wants from school companions across the assist and infrastructure wanted to create MOOCs and on-line diploma media. The Heart for Educational Innovation works with all 19 colleges and schools within the Ann Arbor campus, and this individual will interact with leaders from all items to assist perceive their wants, seek the advice of on media and know-how options for his or her unit, and assist create and implement our community studio technique to ship high-quality productions for all companions.

Q: What would success appear to be in a single 12 months? Three years? Past?

A: Within the first 12 months, we’re actually searching for a pacesetter that may are available and take the time to deeply perceive our present processes, workflows, and must develop a long run plan for fulfillment. On the finish of that first 12 months, we’ll name it successful if we have now constructed out a set of scalable and versatile operational processes and an infrastructure plan that may place us for continued progress.

On the three-year mark, we could have absolutely applied a collection of community studios and media manufacturing capabilities throughout the establishment that may assist broad tutorial wants for on-line instructing and studying to fulfill the pedagogical wants of every unit and the educational wants of every learner. The problem to ship high quality at scale requires fixed consideration and a dedication to steady enchancment and agility. On the Heart for Educational Innovation, we welcome these huge challenges and wish to be that enabling pressure for school and items to deal with what they do finest, all whereas pushing the boundaries on innovation.

Q: What sorts of future roles would somebody who took this place be ready for?

A: This sort of position will likely be a mix of somebody who can stability deep technical problem-solving with high-level technique and pondering. This individual will assist develop and develop a staff of execs that ship state-of-the-art media know-how options to unravel tutorial objectives. This individual will likely be ready for technical management roles that contain media manufacturing in any self-discipline.

The beauty of working at CAI is that you’ve the chance to work with school which might be specialists in virtually each discipline, so on-the-job studying prepares you for a lot of totally different disciplines. I see this sort of position as an awesome alternative for somebody to construct their abilities in relationship constructing, cutting-edge technical problem-solving and strategic techniques pondering. I’m excited to work with somebody to assist us obtain our subsequent set of objectives for CAI and the College of Michigan.