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Do You Want to Change the Future of Education?


Our mission is to transform learning.

“EdX represents a unique opportunity to improve education on our campuses through online learning, while simultaneously creating a bold new educational path for millions of learners worldwide.”

—Rafael Reif, MIT President

“EdX gives Harvard and MIT an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically extend our collective reach by conducting groundbreaking research into effective education and by extending online access to quality higher education.”

—Drew Faust, Harvard President

EdX Content Engineer

Content Engineers support edX Fellows and edX Course Managers in the overall technical development of course content, assessments, and domain-specific online tools. Tasks include developing graders for rich problems, designing automated tools for import of problems from other formats, as well as creating new ways for students to interact with domain-specific problems in the system.

A candidate must have:

  • Python or JavaScript development experience
  • A deep interest in pedagogy and education

Knowledge of GWT or Backbone.js a plus.

If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org.

Platform Developer

Platform Developers build the core learning platform that powers edX, writing both front-end and back-end code. They tackle a wide range of technical challenges, and so the best candidates will have a strong background in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, education, user interaction design, big data, social network analysis, and devops. Specialists are encouraged to apply, but team members often wear many hats. Our ideal candidate would have excellent coding skills, a proven history of delivering projects, and a deep research background.

If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

Learning Designer/Interaction Learning Designer

The Learning Designer will work as part of the content and development team to plan, develop and deliver highly engaging and media rich online courses. The learning designer will be a flexible thinker, able to determine and apply sound pedagogical strategies to unique situations and a diverse set of academic disciplines. This is a 6-12 months contract opportunity.

Specific Responsibilities include:

  • Work with producers, product developers and course staff on implementing instructional design approaches in the development of media and other course materials.
  • Articulate learning objectives and align them to content design strategy and assessments.
  • Write effective instructional text, and audio and video scripts.
  • Coordinate workflows with video and content development team
  • Identify best practices and share these with the course staff and faculty as needed.
  • Create course communication style guides. Train and coach teaching staff on best practices for communication and discussion management.
  • Develop use case guides as needed on the use of edX courseware and new technologies.
  • Serve as a liaison to instructional design teams located at X universities.
  • Design peer review processes to be used by learners in selected courses.
  • Ability to apply game-based learning theory and design into selected courses as appropriate.
  • Use learning analytics and metrics to inform course design and revision process.
  • Work closely with the Content Research Director on articulating best practices for MOOC teaching and learning and course design.
  • Assist in the development of pilot courses used for sponsored research initiatives.

Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Educational Technology, Instructional Design or related field. Experience in higher education with additional experience in a start-up or research environment desirable. Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal), project management, problem-solving and time management skills. The ability to be flexible with projects and to work on multiple courses essential. Ability to meet deadlines and manage expectations of constituents. Capacity to develop new and relevant technology skills.  Experience using game theory design and learning analytics to inform instructional design decisions and strategy.

Technical Skills:

Video and screencasting experience. LMS Platform experience, xml, HTML, CSS, Adobe Design Suite, Camtasia or Captivate experience. Experience with web 2.0 collaboration tools.

If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

Production Coordinator

The Production Coordinator supports video editors and course staff in all video related tasks, such as ingesting footage, transcoding, tracking live dates, transcriptions, organizing project deliverables and archiving completed projects.

Primary responsibilities:

  • organize, track, and manage video and associated assets across the video workflow
  • manage project data and spreadsheets
  • route incoming source footage, and apply metadata tags
  • run encoding/transcoding jobs
  • prepare and process associated video assets, such as slides and image files
  • manage the transcription process
    • traffic files among project staff and video transcription services
    • coordinate transcript reviews with course staff
    • integrate transcripts in course pages
  • other video-related tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for the Production Coordinator position will have

  • relentless attention to detail
  • ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across the organization
  • knowledge and understanding of digital media production tools and processes
  • experience with compression techniques, image processing, and presentation software preferred
  • proficiency with standard office applications
    • spreadsheets
    • word processing
    • presentation
  • experience with web publishing, e.g., HTML, XML, CSS, a plus

If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org

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How to Apply

E-mail your resume, coverletter and any other materials to jobs@edx.org

Our Location

11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142