[Remote] Online MEng Course Teaching Assistant - Machine Learning

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Waco Tribune-Herald is seeking an Online MEng Course Teaching Assistant for their Machine Learning course. The role involves supporting faculty and students through facilitation of live sessions, grading assignments, and providing technical support related to course content.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with course faculty, grade course assignments and provide feedback to students
• In collaboration with course faculty, provide content help or tutoring to students
• Attend live course sessions, answer student questions during live sessions in the chat, and facilitate portions of the live sessions
• In collaboration with course faculty, create student teams for group projects
• Update or re-allocate student teams as needed
• Actively monitor and respond to discussion forum questions in a timely manner
• Create threads during the live course to spark discussion in the discussion forums
• Review any reported inappropriate activity in discussion forums that needs review against academic integrity policy and take action in accordance with Dartmouth College policies
• Send course announcements
• Launch live events in the course on the Coursera platform and post the recordings afterwards
• Help with scheduling live events in the course
• In collaboration with the Online Education Academic Program Manager, apply item setting exceptions in-course for approved program-level student accommodations
• In collaboration with course faculty, consider course-level student accommodation requests (including extensions, emergency absences, etc) and apply item setting exceptions for approved course-level student accommodations
• Troubleshoot and escalate student technical issues
• Report course content or settings corrections in the live course
• Demonstrates professionalism and collegiality through actions, interactions, and communications with others appropriate to an environment that is welcoming to all
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or a related field
• Knowledge of course content for Machine Learning or Signal Processing (depending on position)
• Strong organizational skills, interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as a member of the team
• Ability to prioritize, problem solve, multi-task, and effectively manage time to meet deadlines
• Ability to track and follow up on outstanding tasks or matters as needed
• Master's or doctoral degree in computer engineering or a related field
• Experience as a teaching assistant or course instructor
• Familiarity with learning management systems, particularly Coursera

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