Competency-Based Education Adjunct Faculty - Instructional
Rasmussen University
This course tracks how we have understood ourselves and our world-including time, space, gravity, and our gadgets-as understanding of how physics has evolved. Topics will include Newton's "discovery" of gravity, Einstein and relativity, energy particles and waves, the atom and how we use it, Schrodinger's cat, and modern technologies.
Reporting Relationships:
Adjunct Faculty will report to an Academic Dean
Responsibilities:
Competency-Based Education (CBE) allows students to master content and skills within a course or program at their own pace and prioritizes the demonstration of student learning over time.
Students are able to show what they know when they know it. CBE courses are broken into multiple modules that are self-paced. Each module has an assessment at the end of it that allows students to demonstrate their mastery of the material.
CBE Instructional Adjunct Faculty members are responsible for running three to seven live sessions a week based on student need. These live sessions will cover a variety of topics, including help with submissions, open office hours, content delivery, and general success strategies.
Student issues and development is also at the forefront of tasks for the instructional faculty. Any student questions about content or grade flow through the instructional faculty.
Key Accountabilities:
The essential function of the position include, but are not limited to the following tasks, duties, and responsibilities consistent with the function. The employee is expected to perform all other duties as requested, directed, and/or assigned. Adjunct faculty will be assigned up to 3 work units per academic quarter.
Teaching Effectiveness: Professionalism, Use of Technology, and Content Expertise
Experience and Qualifications:
Education, certifications and Licensures:
Location:
This position is remote but not available to CO residents
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About Us:
Rasmussen University is a regionally accredited private university dedicated to changing lives and the communities it serves through high-demand and flexible educational programs. As a pioneer in career-focused education since 1900, the University is defining a new generation of higher education that focuses on competency-based education, technology and transferrable skills. Rasmussen offers undergraduate and graduate programs online and in person at 23 campuses around the country. The University is designed to lift and support its students every step of the way, from their first credential to their last. Rasmussen is dedicated to global enrichment, serving the underserved and meeting the evolving needs of diverse students, communities and economies. Rasmussen encourages its students, faculty and staff to strive for academic excellence, community enrichment and service to the public good. For more information about Rasmussen University, please visit .
At Rasmussen, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to supporting and encouraging diversity in the workplace. We welcome our employee's differences regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, age, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
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